Thread: Gary Shaw: UFC Title-Holders Are “Club Champs”
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Old 01-17-2008, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by leelandk View Post
... Being the UFC champ doesn't mean you are the best in the world necassarily, but it means a hell of alot more than holding the title in Elite XC.
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Thats it. UFC has nothing to gain from being associated with EXC, but EXC has everything to gain from being associated with UFC.
And for all shaws talk he has only cross promoted his marquee fighters against other orgs that he owns a piece of. When the Icon champ beat the EXC champ, the Icon champ became the EXC champ. If Shaw is so fearless about cross promotion will he match Gina against the bodog girls? I dont think so.
How about noons in K1 against yamamato? I doubt it.
Those wouldn't offer the exposure and boost of legitimacy that he would get even in losing against UFC. For UFC to even consider attaching its name to EXC right now is win/win for shaw and lose/lose for Zuffa.
Shaws taunts make me think of some skeevy girl at a party daring you to fuck her.
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