[Wayne Brady]

Originally Posted by Mexican Dude

An elite keyboard warrior at his finest.

Here I thought a keyboard warrior was someone trying to act tough on the internet. I'm merely making fun of you. Come up with a better response next time so it doesn't seem so bad when you get clowned.

[Mexican Dude]

Originally Posted by Wayne Brady

Here I thought a keyboard warrior was someone trying to act tough on the internet. I'm merely making fun of you. Come up with a better response next time so it doesn't seem so bad when you get clowned.

Thank you for making my ignore list one person longer.

[legosandvicks]

Preliminary injunction is not the same as a ruling over a violation of contract. While significant, this is still relatively minor.

[Mexican Dude]

Originally Posted by legosandvicks

Preliminary injunction is not the same as a ruling over a violation of contract. While significant, this is still relatively minor.

Thanx for the clarification. I was being swarmed by elitist pigs(pride fans) saying this is old news when it actually contains different info from the actual ufc website.

[spacedog]

Well that is what the UFC says. Xtreme Couture's lawyers had something else to say. Basically Randy never was even that involved with the whole event and voluntarly steped down from any involvment PRIOR to going to court. Also there has been no real ruling by the judge> The case is ongoing and the judge will hear all the various arguments.
Any how here is what the law dogs had to say.


Yesterday our lawyers appeared in Judge Togliatti’s Las Vegas courtroom to address the previously continued preliminary injunction hearing. After many hours of argument, the judge agreed to fashion a remedy (without any admission or waiver or affect on any date and event other than the February 29th IFL event) based upon what Randy Couture had already advised the court he was doing and /or more than willing to do (and had already taken steps to do): (i) That he had not planned to attend the February 29th IFL event in Las Vegas; (ii) that, given the foregoing, he was not cornering at the IFL event on the 29th; and (iii) that the team name “Xtreme Couture” would not be used in the February 29th event (for the reasons discussed below). We don’t believe that anyone with full-knowledge of the facts could consider this a victory. In fact, it is a non-event.
However, the background story is a little more interesting. Simply put, the IFL was attempting to use the “Xtreme Couture” name without properly representing the gym by using its own fighters.
On January 8 we submitted a list of seven (7) fighters to the IFL that would be available to fight in the IFL event from the Xtreme Couture gym. The fighters were: Dennis Davis 145lbs (16-8), Jay White Heavyweight (2-5), Phil Friedman Heavyweight (1-0), Eric Uresk 155lbs (2-3), Josh Haynes 185lbs (8-8), Johnny Hendricks 170lbs (3-0), and Karina Taylor 135lbs (0-1).
The IFL informed us that Dennis Davis would be booked to fight a prelim bout against Ian Loveland and that none of our other fighters would be utilized. According to the IFL none of our fighters were a proper matchup for Mario Sperry’s team of Brazilian fighters. The IFL intended to field a team of Benji Radach (who due to injury was replaced by Josh Haynes), Santino DeFranco and Lew Polley. Radach had been a member of Shawn Tompkins’ Anacondas team, while DeFranco and Polley are from American Top Team.
Lew Polley and Santino DeFranco are tremendous athletes and excellent fighters. However, they are members of American Top Team not Xtreme Couture. American Top Team is a great squad and by all means seem to be deserving of having their own team in the IFL. We have 35 athletes that train in our Las Vegas gym and proudly wear the Xtreme Couture patch on their shorts during fights. Yet the IFL decided to field a team called “Xtreme Couture” without putting any Xtreme Couture athletes on the team. The Patriots didn’t show up in the Super Bowl with a bunch of players from the Packers. Why would the Xtreme Couture name be put on the line and not be represented by Xtreme Couture fighters.
It is because of this that the team name was changed to “Team Tompkins”.

[Det_Kimble]

Originally Posted by Mexican Dude

Thanx for the clarification. I was being swarmed by elitist pigs(pride fans) saying this is old news when it actually contains different info from the actual ufc website.

Yeah because we all know Randy Couture was the face of PRIDE FC and MMA in Japan.

[legosandvicks]

Originally Posted by Det_Kimble

Yeah because we all know Randy Couture was the face of PRIDE FC and MMA in Japan.

Dude, Randy was made in Japan. I can't believe the UFC bothered to buy his contract when all he was doing was fighting asians and cans. He so got his ass kicked in the UFC. Dana Rules. And so forth and so forth

[spacedog]

Originally Posted by Mexican Dude

yes. he violated the non compete agreement. Plus there gonna go for more stuff.

No!!!!!!!! Fuck how hard is it. There is another hearing on March 6. No judgment yet.

[l'État, c'est!!]

They just barred him from participating (not fighting) in tonights IFL event.

This wasn't unexpected.

[Bodystomp]

Originally Posted by Rev. Maynard

I'm on the fence. But I don't feel sorry for anyone who's rich. Zuffa or Couture. But we're missing fights because of this. Damn.

Yes, besides Zuffa, Randy is sort of screwing his fans. I've never really understood his complaint that he didn't get enough respect from Zuffa. They put him in the UFC hall of fame, made him one of two coaches in TUF I (read Liddell's new book if you think this show doesn't help a fighter promote himself), A TV program that changed MAA forever by bringing in a ton of new fans through exposure. Other fight promotions have benefitted from TUF- a lot. After Randy came out of retirement, they gave him an immediate shot at the title, which he of course won. That didn't exactly hurt his career, and without the UFC none of this would have happened. This is to say nothing of the fact that his pay was higher than everybody's except Chuck. Not bad for being an aging fighter with many losses on his record, huh?

Nobody shafted Randy Couture.