With everyone’s attention on the ZUFFA vs Couture suite. Mark Cuban and HDNet Fights company quietly joined the Couture/UFC battle.

Wednesday, in a Dallas court house, HDNetFights filed a suite against ZUFFA. Seeking declaratory judgment concerning the contractual status of Couture/ZUFFZ promotional contract. Ironically enough, ZUFFAS co-defendant in the suite is technically Couture himself.

Randy Couture took the first shot in the heated legal war when he resigned from the UFC in OCT/07. It was a battle of words, with heated news conferences and verbal fighting with the media. ZUFFA filed a suite against Couture in Jan/08.

The HDNet Fights lawsuit in the Texas court asked for a declaratory relief(a ruling on when Randy Couture’s promotional contract will expire. If it is in favor of Couture it could open up a the Couture/Fedor fight in the fall. Witch everyone has been waiting for. It could potentially be promoted by HDNet Fights.

The Texas lawsuit represents is the first legal problem for Couture’s promotional contract with UFC. Sherdog.com reported “it is Couture’s employment contract and its one year non compete clause, not his promotional contract, that is at the center of ZUFFA’s complaint against Couture in Nevada. ZUFFA did not enter the promotional contract int evidence, but it offered the judge chance to view it by him self.

Dana White’s(UFC president) argument is that Couture owes two more fights to the UFC. Due to a so-called “retirement clause” found in Couture contract.

A letter made its self public in court, White responded to Couture’s resignation. “with regard to your fighting career, I presume that your letter refers to you Exclusive Promotional and Ancillary Rights Agreement(dated Jan 19, 07). Pursuant to Sec. 10.3 of the Agreement, I presume that you have decided to ‘retire’ from MMA or other professional fighting competition. Assuming that you intention, ZUFFA, LLC is electing to suspend the Term of the Agreement for the period of such retirement”. - ZUFFA

Randy has said publicly that he believes hi promotional contract expires at the end of the term. Witch could be in 18 months. So after the term ends Couture would be free to fight Fedor in the Fall out side of the UFC( man did the UFC mess that up)

I think this is all bull. The UFC is getting too greedy. they should have offered Randy more money and treated him much better. Because of the UFC’s greed they now have lost one of the biggest fights ever( stupid bunch of asses). Now some one else is going to make a shit load of money on this fight and Dana White is going to feel stupid as hell……..lol

I found out that Zuffa filed a lawsuit in Clarks County District Court for breach of contract and they are looking for over $10,000 in damages. I say Randy just pays the money to the UFC and goes some were else. You know what since Randy loves the compete so much he should partner with a smaller company and compete with the UFC….lol.. What ever Randy does Ill fallow him. Don’t worry Randy you have your fans with or without the UFC.

Dana White has started allot of drama and this tops it all. Randy is my hero and allot of people can agree with me on that. I like watching Randy in the UFC and I really cant picture him any were else. Randy wants to fight Fedor Emelianenko and nobody else. Randy has fought the best fighters in the world. Now all thats left is Fedor, the most dangerous Heavy Weight in the world. Every time they talk about making it happen something goes wrong. I found out the UFC offered Randy $500,000 to fight Fedor and they offered Fedor $1,000,000 to fight Randy. WTF! Thats not cool! Can Dana and the UFC be any more greedy? I like Fedor allot and I also like Randy allot but I’m on Randy’s side on this one. Randy is the UFC Heavy Weight Champ and he is not getting champion money. You don’t pay the challenger more money than the Champion, you just don’t do that(especially double). Who the hell is in charge of payroll? You know that Chuck lost two fights in a row and still got paid more than the UFC Heavy Weight Champion Randy Couture? Because of all that bull, Randy now left the UFC. Yes he is gone and he does not want to come back. I’m surprised that Dana didn’t take Randy off the website like he did Tito back in the day. Randy is pissed off and I don’t blame him for it I just hope something happens soon. I would really like to see Randy fight one last time before its to late. I think Randy will fight Fedor in the UFC if Dana comes up with an agreement with K-1 and the two fighters on the contract.

Randy Couture my hero! This guy showed his ground and pound power in a mount position and pounded away on the cash test dummy. His numbers were insane when they hit at 2,000 lbs, twice the amount of the Boxer from last week and 200 lbs more then Rampage’s numbers. This is like a sludge hammer coming down and hitting you in the head.