Bas Boon "Finally, I sent you an e-mail regarding Fedor’s title fight bonus $50.000 for the Pride title and that all fighters (I had a lot of contracts with GG fighters with Pride at that time Semmy, Heath Herring, Alistair, Valentijn….) they all got the same term in their contract with Pride , if they would fight for a belt and win they would make an extra $50.000.-. I was very smart sending an email to Pride and asking them if this term was for all fighters who fought for a belt, they said yes and I forwarded you this mail. I told you: ask what Fedor got for his title fight and you told me $4000." Vadim Finklestein "Fedor understood that he was cheated. You just helped us expose deception of Pogodin, but you didn’t do it for free." Other info: Bas Boon "You wanted a better contract for Fedor and I made sure Fedor got almost 4 times more money than before fighting with Pride. Fedor went from $30.000 to $115000 - for four fights. " So Fedor's initial contract in Pride was 7500 per fight, and then 28 750 per fight. It's from an M-1 article with Vadim responding to Bas Boon, when Bas Boon said M-1 is a bunch of crooks and robbers. http://www.m-1global.com/lang/en/2009/10/04/vadim-finkelstein/
Fedor's first manager was actually considerably worse than Vadim lol. I had heard about this before, but never had heard the details. Pretty ridiculous for a manager to steal 46 000, and only give 4000.
Here's Rasputin marrying Fedor and his beloved the other day. Everything about Fedor screams "simple kind of man". No wonder he's been taken advantage of his whole career. He knows and doesn't care, it seems. http://efedor.ru/news/424.html Edit: dunno if this is his 2nd or 3rd.
