PLENTY MORE FISH IN THE SEA ?

RE: Plenty more fish in the sea ?

Former UFC Champion Georges St. Pierre announced on the MMAHOUR tonight that he is now a free agent. According to GSP when Lorenzo Fertitta was in charge of the negotiations that a return for the former Super Star was imminent. Negotiations broke down, according to St.Pierre when the new UFC bosses took charge of the promotion.
It would appear that the new promotion was not prepared to spend the type of money asked by the St.Pierre camp and in reality, they believed it was too much of a high risk to re-introduce the former champ to the UFC again when they assessed the type of financial figures involved.

Whatever the spending practices were of the former promotion, the new promotion is unlikely to mirror those practices at all, even if it that means parting ways with superstars like St.Pierre.

Another Super Star has gone from the UFC, thrown like a fish back into the sea.
It is hard to know the mindset behind this new promotion but one thing is for sure, with the news of new faces coming into the promotion come early January 2017 and pending Job cuts looming , it must be worrying times for the hard working staff behind the scenes who’s Jobs up until now had been considered secure for life.

We personally think Dana White is embarrassed by the decision of the new promotion to cut ties with GSP and his damage control has been to hit the media airwaves suggesting that GSP is perhaps more talk than fire suggesting that he doesn’t really want to fight.

We ask you this question, what promotion in their right mind would ever cut ties with one of the greatest athletes that has ever lived like it was some meaningless fish that run up onto some fish bait only to be tossed back into the sea ?

We are not buying it.
Dana White may not have nurtured talent in the UFC but acquired a lot of it from existing and previous promotions that the UFC has either bought or taken over in the past as he did with WEC, and Strike Force, but they are not in the business of throwing it away either !

Ronda Rousey, Daniel Cormier, Luke Rockhold and the hall of Famer Dan Henderson are not home grown talent, they were acquired by the UFC and joined their talent pool from the likes of Scott Coker who built these athletes from the ground up.
let’s not forget that Henderson and White did not see eye to eye in the early days of Strikeforce ,but somehow the promotion made it work right to the end of a career culminating at UFC 204.

But GSP you are going to throw away like trash?
Something doesn’t sit right and It’s embarrassing to see.
Whatever the future holds for GSP it was clear that he had his heart set on returning to the UFC and he did not seem to lay blame on Dana White for whatever has taken place in the back doors of the new promotion.
He also sounded quite hurt to be cutting ties with the UFC and why shouldn’t he be , he left undefeated on top of the world and always claimed that he had not retired but had taken a long and overdue break from all the head trauma he had sustained over the years.

Clearly, GSP had no plans to go anywhere else but We can’t help but think the way the Promotion recently treated his long time friend and fellow Canadian Rory Macdonald must have factored into his head the possibility that the UFC may not be the best fit for his still viable future.

With the promotional and financial tools of Viacom and Coker at the helm of Bellator MMA who has promised to take the promotion to Canada, one can not help but think that having both GSP and MacDonald on any card would be an instant sell out.

One thing is now clear to all as we pause: the UFC no longer has all the greatest fighters in the world, as the herd is thinned yet again !