Dana White asks, Do you want to see Fedor vs Brock?

Fedor beats Brock in the first round.

Put it on the December card with Hendo vs Spider 2 and Cowboy vs Showtime. Watch those records shatter.

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/8/29/3276926/ufc-dana-white-brock-lesnar-fedor-emelianenko-ufc-151-jon-jones
UFC president Dana White has had a rough patch lately. The forced cancellation of UFC 151 had to be one of his biggest challenges in his decade-long tenure with the organization. He was clearly unhappy at the press conference and he's even stopped tweeting since August 20.

He did reappear last night to troll poll the members of MMA.TV's famous UG forum about a Fedor Emelianenko vs. Brock Lesnar bout:

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"Is this the fight u guys want to see? Post a thread asking if people want to see this fight."

The response was predictably voluminous.

A poll of MMA Mania readers showed 71% still want to see the most exciting fight of 2009. What do Bloody Elbow readers think?

After the jump I'll speculate about why Dana is doing this.
Here are two possible reasons for Dana White asking fans about this fight:

1.He just wanted to change the subject
In the aftermath of the UFC 151 fiasco, Dana desperately needs to distract fans with something else to talk about. What better than a fight that should have happened in 2009 but seems impossibly unlikely today. Both Brock and Fedor have retired from MMA, Brock after serious health issues. In this interpretation, Dana is just telling fans, "Hey look over there!"

2.He's rethinking everything
Dana's not known for his deep philosophical tendencies, but anyone who's had a bruising public defeat like cancelling a PPV is going to do some thinking. Dana vociferously denied that the UFC has been putting on too many events at the UFC 151 cancellation press conference, but all the evidence (PPV #'s, TV ratings, ticket sales) is pointing in the other direction. Maybe Dana's trying to think of some big moves he can make to get fans buzzing about the UFC in a positive way again. In this scenario he's actually considering trying to put the fight together.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out how unlikely and even pointless a Fedor vs. Brock fight in 2012/2013 would be. Jeremy Botter did it up right at Bleacher Report:

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It's been three years since White had his last best shot at getting Emelianenko into the UFC. Lesnar battled disease and heavyweights who were simply much better fighters than he, and eventually departed for the safer shores of World Wrestling Entertainment, where he shows up every few months and makes something along the lines of $300,000 per appearance.

It's good money, but more importantly, it's good money without the prospect of getting punched in his permanently-changed midsection. Lesnar is through with UFC and through with the real fighting, and those close to him will tell you that he's never, ever going back in the cage. Not for a real fight, anyway.

It's time to put this fight to bed. It was a dream once, and it was a good dream. But both participants are no longer actually participants, and our precious debate time is much better spent discussing the outstanding and legitimate heavyweights who actually still compete.

It's been a long couple of weeks for Dana and the UFC, maybe he just needed to take his mind off things. All the same, if he can book Fedor vs. Brock, it's still better late than never.

How about everyone holds their biased opinions, we all agree that we would still watch/want this fight, and we all slug it out

Spoiler:

after the fight goes down.

In all reality, Dana is reflecting from th fact that there SHOULD have been a card on tomorrow night... And hat better way than this

of course i do. Fedor would own him.

OU wrote:

captain organic wrote:

Fedor could submit Brock. Im not saying he can't. Would be tough though. Brock plays it pretty safe in top position.

He also has far less training in submission defense then Bigfoot. Brock was late to the game, we can't forget that. He is still green in many areas. Including submissions. Bigfoot is much more comfortable in that position.

And Bigfoot won via tko.

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"There was a question (on The Underground), 'Could Dana make this fight?'" White said Tuesday on FUEL TV's "UFC Tonight." "And then I asked them, 'Well, how many people really want to see this fight?' I was asking a question. I guess a couple people want to see that fight."

"I'll tell you this: I have done so much to try to get Fedor into the UFC," White said. "You know how I am, especially if I say it publicly. 'This is an obsession. I've got to get this thing done.'

"I've tried to get it done. And the crazy thing is, now everyone's asking if I can make this fight, and you know Fedor's retired. The guy retired. I don't know (if I could get him back). I couldn't get him when he was fighting. Now, we're on such good terms I'm going to pull him out of retirement?"

http://mmajunkie.com/news/30505/fedor-emelianenko-vs-brock-lesnar-super-fight-ufc-boss-weighs-in.mma

OU wrote:

If only.

Apparently Dana just dropped a story about how they were ridiculously close to signing Fedor to fight Brock at Cowboy Stadium. This is back when he said he had a meeting with Brock that went "very bad". He just didn't want people to know about it but that's what they were discussing. Then Fedor's dad died and apparently he decided that he wanted to stay retired officially. Dana said he doubts Fedor will be included when they make their hopeful debut in Russia this year

At Cowboys Stadium.

Lorenzo met with Fedor face to face. Dana met with Brock. Terms were close. Then Fedor's dad died and decided to stay retired. Brock did as well since the Fedor fight was off the table.


Late in this video.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/1/27/3920710/dana-white-ufc-on-fox-6-post-fight-scrum-video

http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/1/27/3920548/dana-white-ufc-was-close-to-pulling-off-fedor-emelianenko-vs-brock/in/3674121

Here is just the part about Russia.

The Brock meeting was May 2012 I believe.

bobbitt15 wrote:

Apparently Dana just dropped a story about how they were ridiculously close to signing Fedor to fight Brock at Cowboy Stadium. This is back when he said he had a meeting with Brock that went "very bad". He just didn't want people to know about it but that's what they were discussing. Then Fedor's dad died and apparently he decided that he wanted to stay retired officially. Dana said he doubts Fedor will be included when they make their hopeful debut in Russia this year

Missed your post last night.

This was all a ploy to hype Brock's return to the WWE

Brock fucked Vince up last night. Damn he is a beast.

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

How ?

Ali* wrote:

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

How ?

Brock is gonna take over and wreck everyone.

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

How ?

Brock is gonna take over and wreck everyone.

Until someone swings on him rendering him fetal.

GDPofDRC wrote:

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

How ?

Brock is gonna take over and wreck everyone.

Until someone swings on him rendering him fetal.

Dat F5 is gonna kill people they won't even have a chance.

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

josh200612 wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Rumor is Brock's signed a two year extension with the WWE.

The WWE is fucked.

How ?

Brock is gonna take over and wreck everyone.

I wonder who Brock will face at Wrestlemania ? Taker ?