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FITCH is BACK in the UFC Less than 24 hours after being cut

According to mmarated.com:

Less than a day after being reportedly ousted from the UFC in a contract dispute Jon Fitch is now back with the company, the top welterweight contender confirmed to MMARated.com on Thursday afternoon.

After speaking with UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta via phone, Fitch said the two had managed to clear the air, that the fighter would sign the company’s much-maligned video game licensing agreement and was cleared to fight Akihiro Gono at UFC 94, as previously planned.

Fitch added that he still hasn’t spoken to UFC President Dana White and admitted that he didn’t like the way he’d been treated by White during attempts to negotiate a deal involving rights to his name and likeness for the upcoming “UFC Undisputed 2009” video game.

“Communication kind of broke down with Dana (White) so we talked with Lorenzo,” Fitch told MMARated. “(I) just got off the phone with him and we came to an agreement. We’re going to move ahead and I’ll be back in the UFC. We’re going to sign off on the video game and I’m back. It was never even about the agreement or the contract. It was the approach that we felt Dana was being a little bit hot-headed and was threatening us right off the bat. It didn’t seem like a professional way of doing things.”

-Looks like everyone hopefully came to their senses in this whole fiasco after all.

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I hope Jon doesn’t sustain an injury from backpedaling so fast.

by subo on Nov 20, 2008 6:32 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Maybe...

the UFC shouldn’t have released him so quickly. They could’ve done this in a much better way.

by achengy on Nov 20, 2008 9:22 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I think we might have ourselves a two way street here.

I will reiterate though that Fitch said multiple times today that it wasn’t about the actual contract but the way in which it was presented to him by Dana in an all or nothing fashion.

by dropkick101 on Nov 20, 2008 10:40 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

pinoy!

http://weoweoweo.deviantart.com/

by Anton Tabuena on Nov 20, 2008 11:32 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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