Thursday, March 13, 2008

Insider's info from the Russian M-1 camp; what's going on in organization?

I received some insider's information from the Russian M-1 camp about the two recent news/rumors: ESPN interviews Apy Echteld; Fedor leaves M-1 Global? and Rumor: Crisis in M-1 Global; Monte Cox wants Vadim Finkelstein out by the buyout.

According to the source, there are currently big transformations going on in M-1 Global.

  • Vadim Finkelstein became the president of the company (yes, we are talking about the M-1 Global, and not about the Russian M-1 company, which was under Finkelstein all the time) in the middle of February.
  • M-1 Global Challenge is a product of Vadim Finkelstein and "the active and energetic part of M-1 Global" (which include all the European and Japanese people you can name as well as American Jerry Millen with his camera team).
  • American people (Monte Cox, Mitchell Maxwell and others) are therefore considered to be not active and energetic. Moreover, without the transformations "this swamp with uncertainty about the format and the dates of the shows would just go on and on. " Now they can finally move forward and "will do everything the can to make as much shows and fights as possible".
  • The future of American side is not known yet.
There is some kind of mess going on, but who knows what it really means and what is really going on there? There seems to be a divide inside the organization, with one of the sides being American and other being everybody else. Who should we listen to and trust? We should listen to everybody and we should trust nobody. But we should also keep one important fact in our minds: Monte Cox has a history of lying.

Vadim Finkelstein, Fedor Emelianenko and Mike Tyson

First I announced here on RussianMMA.com, that Fedor Emelianenko will be fighting on a NYE. Then there was Monte's remark/lie that it won't happen. Everybody were laughing at me, but I still stand behind the information. And look who was right. I was right, my source was correct (the same source, which gave the insider's info as well), but Monte Cox turned out to be a liar. This all gives optimism and hits Monte's alleged plans to buyout M-1 Global from Vadim Finkelstein.

No, it doesn't mean that everything is well and you should 100% trust the tidbits I shared. Obviously there is a lot of unknown, even inside the M-1, because of the evergoing transformations. But the information gives hope, that now the M-1 Global's business will move more rapidly and there will be no such delays as we have seen before. But it's hard to tell anything specific, really. We should all stay tuned and wait for more concrete information.

2 comments:

Mohammed said...

thanks for the post and the work you put in to have contacts within Russian MMA.

I'm going to take your advice and listen to all sources, trust little. At this point, I just want to see fights. The M1 challenge happened, now lets see something in the US or Japan.

Mikko Vedru - Editor-in-Chief of Russian MMA said...

I personally finally want to see that first US show they have promised for a while now...