Report: Fitch Back With UFC
November 20, 2008
MMARated is reporting that Top 5 welterweight Jon Fitch is back in with the UFC. Ariel Helwani is in the San Jose area to cover the Strikeforce card as was able to get in contact with the embattled fighter:
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.
In speaking with MMARated, Fitch put the onus of the impasse on the negotiating tactics of UFC President Dana White, who he felt was heavy handed and hot headed in his dealings with AKA from the beginning. A cynic might suggest this is a text book case of good cop bad cop, regardless the end effect has been accomplished by the UFC, with Fitch signing away his video game rights, seemingly in perpetuity.
