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mrtonguetwista

mrtonguetwista

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Shogun...did you know about this?

A fighter competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship - guy by the name of Jon Fitch - has been booted off the circuit by the sport's organisers, along with a bunch of his American Kickboxing Academy team-mates. Reason? They refused to sign a video game deal. See, the UFC have a licensing agreement in place with THQ. THQ publishes the UFC games, and UFC fighters...have to put their names to a contract singing away their name and likeness forever. Not one year, not five years, for their entire lives. Fitch, who says he was trying ot be reasonable about the whole thing, is obviously a little upset:


I'm more than willing to work with them, but I don't see why we have to give up our whole lives for this. Why not a time limit? If we did a 10-year deal with them, is that that unreasonable? I don't understand how this happened, honestly. It's tough.

Guy's got a point. If anything, a lifetime deal on the part of the UFC and HQ is being optimistic, about the future of either organisation.
 
A1Yola06

A1Yola06

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Oct 23, 2006
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^^^^^ Fitch is back with the UFC already hahah, it took less than 24 hours for him to get back. I guess they see that they made a stupid ass mistake... looks like fitch will be in the video game though.
 
SLRider510

SLRider510

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A1Yola06 said:
^^^^^ Fitch is back with the UFC already hahah, it took less than 24 hours for him to get back. I guess they see that they made a stupid ass mistake... looks like fitch will be in the video game though.
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I'm glad bc i like fitch.... hes a very entertaining fighter. tough as nails.... and if he was outta the ufc and the game... id be pretty dissapointed.
 
Shogun Locc

Shogun Locc

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Feb 7, 2006
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mrtonguetwista said:
Shogun...did you know about this?

A fighter competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship - guy by the name of Jon Fitch - has been booted off the circuit by the sport's organisers, along with a bunch of his American Kickboxing Academy team-mates. Reason? They refused to sign a video game deal. See, the UFC have a licensing agreement in place with THQ. THQ publishes the UFC games, and UFC fighters...have to put their names to a contract singing away their name and likeness forever. Not one year, not five years, for their entire lives. Fitch, who says he was trying ot be reasonable about the whole thing, is obviously a little upset:


I'm more than willing to work with them, but I don't see why we have to give up our whole lives for this. Why not a time limit? If we did a 10-year deal with them, is that that unreasonable? I don't understand how this happened, honestly. It's tough.

Guy's got a point. If anything, a lifetime deal on the part of the UFC and HQ is being optimistic, about the future of either organisation.
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yes I did and he did end up signing his likeness away.
 
MOREBASS

MOREBASS

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Wow, thats a terrible deal. Having to sign your likeness away for life ?


For practically nothing too. And that game will probably end up selling a few million copies.
 
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