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Originally Published 7 months ago Lesnar and Fedor are among 100 Most Powerful Athletes in the World accoridng to the BusinessWeek magazine
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UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and WAMMA World Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko are MMA representatives in BusinessWeek's magazine TOP 100 list of the most powerful athletes in the world. Fedor ranked #82 as Brock Lesnar is far behind on the 96th spot.
Golfer Tiger Woods, the NBA player LeBron James, golfer Phil Mickelson, MLB's Albert Pujols and the NFL's Peyton Manning took the top five places in the list that ranks sportsmen by their business power, and has nothing to do with physical attributes (despite it's name).
According to the reports Fedor Emelianenko will defend his title against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ace Fabricio Werdum at the Strikeforce event on CBS, that will probably take place on April 16th. Brock Lesnar's opponent will be either Frank Mir or Shane Carwin, who are scheduled to fight each other at UFC 111.
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7 months ago
Fedor`s should be number one and Lesnar`s number two.
Who a ****ing moron did this list. I wanna see Fedor vs Tiger "playboy" Woods match....NOW. then we will see who is the most powerful athelite!!
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7 months ago
LOL!!
even if tiger "playboy"woods fight with his golfclubs
hahahha lol!
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7 months ago
Maybe read the article not just the title? Many morons on the net like always but still...
Its about business power nothing else...
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7 months ago
hed still loose lol
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7 months ago
that was the joke
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7 months ago
Depends if he gets to use golf balls and start the fight by shooting a ball, then he could take their heads clean off :)
However I don't think they were refering to physical power you egg heads lol
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7 months ago
it says so in the article. it refers to BUSINESS power. not physical power. though i do believe based on business power, fedor should be ranked much higher, based on his partial ownership of seemingly everything MMA, with the exception of UFC(even though UFC is in his crosshairs for partial ownership).
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7 months ago
They are refering to the business (marketing and so on) and not power
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7 months ago
WORD!
Lesner pulls more money and is therefore more powerfull in a business sense.
That is what this article is about , people.
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7 months ago
Brock maybe powerful by muscle strength but not any means of heart, brains, and integrity - like a true MMA artist
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7 months ago
lol brock is still a rookie! thats out!
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7 months ago
f uck i hate golf,why is it a sport & why is it televised
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7 months ago
Tiger Woods is tho most earning sportsman in the world Brock won't be ewhen top 100
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7 months ago
a UFC fighter will never be in the most earning top 100 list!!
that money goes to fertitas and dana!!!
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7 months ago
not soo much dana.
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Ridiculous. That is the most AMERICAN list i have EVER seen. Soccer stars like Ronaldo make (including sponshorships) about 200 million dollars a year, and real madird payed 131 MILLION dollars for him!!!!! The biggest most iconic atheletes in the world are soccer players. I have never even heard of Lebron James? Who the **** is that? Who's never heard of David Beckham??
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WTF? who's never heard of LeBron James? I think you're just a footfairy mother****er, maybe u been bouncin to many soccer balls off your head, rattled your brain... LeBron James after endorcments is close to the 150 mil a year. The European Basketball leaGue offered OBSCENE amounts of money to him, they said "if a guy like LeBron James would make his way to the league he'd make 80 to 100 mil a year" (off just a contract)
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handfairies
and you must be another ignorant american handfairy who needs to get out more. Football - the real thing where you can't use your hands (except if you're French) - is only about 10 x bigger than american football, baseball, and basketball combined. Almost no one in africa, Asia or Europe will know wtf LeBron James is but mention Beckham, Ronaldo, or vanNistelrooy and you have yourself a conversation.
On topic: this list can't be just about money or else no mma fighter would be on it. There must be at least 100 european Football players alone that make far more money than Fedor and Brock combined, let alone if you add US football, baseball, basketball, golf, etc.
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wtf is a renaldo? can i sleep with it?
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In July 2009, that's the list
1) Tiger Woods (/Etats-Unis) 99 737 626 $
2) Phil Mickelson (/Etats-Unis) 52 950 356 $
3) David Beckham (/Grande-Bretagne) 48 200 000 $
4) Kimi Räikkönen (Pilote/Finlande) 46 000 000 $
5) LeBron James (Basket/USA) 42 410 581 $
6) Alex Rodriguez (Baseball/USA) 39 000 000 $
7) Ronaldinho (Football/Bresil) 37 500 000 $
8) Lionel Messi (Football/Argentine) 35 800 000 $
9) Roger Federer (Tennis/Suisse) 35 130 620 $
10) Shaquille O’Neal (Basket/USA) 35 000 000 $
10) Fernando Alonso (Pilote/Esp) 35 000 000 $
There are at least 50 soccer players that earn more than 4000 000 $ a year,just with salaries, no counting advertising contracts.
I did not count Basket Ball players etc etc...
If they are among 100, they make really Big frikin Money!!!
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7 months ago
UFC ofered Fedor 5.000.000 per fight,i don't think Brock is making 1.000.000
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Fedor got 20 prosent of M1 Global the only fighter who gets wath the figter deserves
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7 months ago
screw Brock
Brock still hasn't put any time into MMA. To me he still hasnt proved himself.
Wait until he's 10 fights in and then we will give him some recognition.
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