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Fedor is better than Lesnar, according to Business Week | read this item

Fedor is better than Lesnar, according to Business Week

January 28, 2010 � UFC Betting Staff � Jump to comments

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Maybe Business Week should stick to … business. Leave sports to the rest of us. The magazine posted its Power 100 2010, ranking the world’s most powerful athletes. Only two mixed martial artists made the list with Fedor Emelianenko checking in at No. 82 and Brock Lesnar at No. 96.

So what is this based on? Who knows? Does Business Week even know how its list was put together? Check out the research done on the Fedor selection. His earnings are not available and the magazine says Fedor has zero endorsement deals. Huh?

Nothing against Fedor, Cagewriter has had the Russian legend ranked No. 1 on its pound-for-pound list since it joined Yahoo! Sports in June of 2008, but it’s hard to make a case that he has the biggest financial might in the MMA world. By the end of 2010, with two more CBS fights under his belt, maybe. But right now Lesnar, who just appeared on ESPN’s SportsCenter last week, and American stars Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz along with French-Canadian phenom Georges St. Pierre would all appear to have more economic impact.

The list has to based solely on U.S. influence since the top five athletes are Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Phil Mickelson, Albert Pujols and Peyton Manning. If it’s a worldwide ranking, there’s no soccer player worthy of the top five? Or international stars with huge followings in their homeland like Yao Ming or Manny Pacquiao?

Tip via MMAJunkie.

I wonder if the RVCA shirt Fedor is wearing in the MMAJunkie photo counts as a “key sponsor?” Wow!

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