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Fedor’s camp announced on Wednesday, that the fighter would be the poster boy, along with Gegard Mousasi and Renato Sobral, for EA’s mixed martial arts video game due out later this year. The deal, apparently, is still possible.

The UFC made Fedor a nice offer, according to his manager Vadim Finkelchtein, but it was not good enough. Neither side seems willing to budge on the co-promotion issue however. M-1 Global wants to co-promote fights with the UFC, while the UFC just wants Fedor as a fighter. It would be like the NHL co-promoting with a Junior League, for the sake of one player. It’s not going to happen. M-1 is so far beneath them in every aspect of the game, it’s a lost cause for M-1 to hang onto that clause.

M-1 honcho Finkelchtein says he has worked too long and hard to take M-1 world wide, and the UFC can’t be the only game in town. Well, they pretty much are, and M-1 is world wide?! Hopefully this is just a negotiating ploy, and we will see Fedor in the UFC very soon…but as of now, I have a hard time imagining anyone, including Fedor, taking out Brock Lesnar. Fedor usually weighs 236lbs for his fights, while Lesnar weighs 280lbs. That’s a lot of beef going against Fedor; and not Tim Sylvia-type beef. Brock can actually fight. Time will tell, I suppose.

On a side note, Finkelchtein says Fedor will fight soon, but under which banner, as of yet, is unknown.