Fedor's Future

With this announcement by EA, the anticipated signing of Fedor Emelianenko to UFC appears to be in jeopardy.

It is difficult to imagine these two companies cooperating, given Dana White's prior comments:

"We put our asses on the line, THQ and the UFC, to make a video-game deal in the worst economy in the world," White said. "We go out there and do this thing, and it's successful, and now [expletive] EA Sports wants to do a video game. Really? That's not what you told us a year-and-a-half ago.

"You told us you'd never be in business with us. They wouldn't even take a meeting because mixed martial arts disgusted them. This wasn't a real sport. Boy, they got over that real quick, didn't they?

"I'm not tap-dancing around this thing or whatever," White said. "I'm telling you straight-up, I'm at war with them right now. That's how I look at it.

"You won't be in the UFC," White said about additional fighters who sign with EA Sports."

More to come as details allow.