whistleblower -CindyO -frontrowbrian - But Dana LOVES talking money when it comes to Fedor Emelianenko when he leaked bogus numbers to an obscure radio personality.
Source that numbers were bogus ????
Cindy
Source that numbers were legit?
And as for a "Source that numbers were bogus" - how about Fedor himself? Because according to Fedor, the numbers published on the internet were "really different" and not the "real numbers" at all - and that if the numbers really had been like they were presented on the internet, he thinks he would have signed with the UFC:FEDOR: "...The offer that we got was one kind, and then on the Internet they published really different numbers. The offer they gave us was really miserable."
QUESTION: Do you think in general that M1 has been portrayed accurately in the press?
FEDOR: "There are a lot of people who take the side of the UFC and there a lot of people who take the side of M1. I think that if the numbers that were published on the Internet were real numbers, we would have signed with the UFC. All the numbers that were published were just rumors."
(http://www.fiveknuckles.com/mma-news/Fedor-Emelianeko-on-UFC-The-offer-they-gave-us-was-really-miserable.html)
Btw, it's conspicuously noteworthy that Carmichael Dave never actually gave a source for the numbers he put out there as well (although it was roundly understood that it was Dana) - and Dana himself never confirmed them either - but at the same time, he still received all the possible PR benefit as if he actually did.
That's the beauty of anonymously leaking conveniently packaged information - you get to benefit from all the potentially positive reaction, without ultimately being accountable for any potentially negative blowback. So you can still get your message out there - presented as if it were actually official, and in the best possible light for yourself - while at the same time never confirming it as official, and thus being able to maintain distance and deniability if necessary.
So it's exactly right that "Dana LOVES talking money when it comes to Fedor Emelianenko" - without actually talking about it directly himself. While everyone reacts and takes his side as if he did. (OMG, Dana just said UFC offered Fedor $30 million!!! And the bottom-line result it produced is that no single piece of selectively leaked "news" effectively turned the tide in the Fedor PR war more in the UFC's favor than that one quoted figure - which wasn't even an officially quoted figure.)
You'd think that even in the PERFECT way you explained the strategy of this move that people would realize what's going on...
but they won't.
Still, VTFU.
EDIT: But hopefully everyone will at least appreciate the ironic relationship between your post and screenname!