Quoteworthy: Paulo Filho's Manager Says "Bellator's Contract Is Cruel"

Jorge Guimarães speaks to Tatame:
"Bellator’s contract is cruel. It’s a new event and we opted not to put Paulão there, because they didn’t want to put a clause in the contract that, if the guy stays without fighting for four months, the contract loses its validity. We were victims of this in EliteXC, which was consolidated and left the athletes behind, without fighting for a long time", said Joinha, who hopes to put the fighter in Strikeforce. "We already have offered to Sengoku and Strikeforce, that is where we want, if possible already fighting with Robbie Lawler”,
I think that's a pretty fair clause that favors the fighters. Of course there could be more to the whole situation. It's good that Filho is talking about fighting again. However, I wonder if he truely has conquered the demons that haunt him this quickly. I also recall he and his camp saying that he wanted to fight at LHW because the cut to MW was too much. However, I see they have their eyes set on Robbie Lawler who is the EliteXC middleweight champ. It'll be interesting to see where he ends up. Do you think it's possible for Filho to regain the form that made him a consensus top 5 MW at one point in time?
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not from what iv’e seen over the last year or so. not making weight, acting weird, fighting crappy. i kinda wonder if he ever was that good., or was he a product of japan’s “anything goes” mma structure.he doesn’t seem to have the mentality to be a good mma fighter. i guess we’ll have to wait and see his next fight to know for sure.
I don’t think so either. In fact, I always felt he was overrated just a bit and that increased when he made the move to the WEC. I wish him well, and I hope that he makes a full recovery first and foremost. If he fight again, then that’s cool too and hopefully he can prove me wrong.
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he’s hard to bargain consider his last year or so of shenanighans…..
Gatti.
Dekkers.
Pele.
Tadahiro Nomura.
Hidehiko Yoshida.
Aoki.
Kang.
Vanderlei.
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Strikeforce heavyweight and former NFL great Herschel Walker (1-0 MMA, 1-0 SF) suffered a deep cut in training and has been forced to withdraw from next month's "Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu" event.
Strikeforce officials today confirmed the change with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
Featuring a light heavyweight matchup between Dan Henderson and Renato "Babalu" Sobral, "Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu" takes place Dec. 4 and airs on Showtime.
"I feel terrible about this," Walker stated in today's official release. "I know things like this happen in all sports, but I had trained very hard and was excited to be returning to the cage again."
Walker had been expected to face one-time WEC veteran Scott Carson (4-1 MMA, 0-0 SF).
According to Strikeforce officials, a Daniel Cormier knee strike opened a "deep cut under [Walker's] left eye that required multiple stitches"...
Despite the setback, Walker said he hopes to return to action quickly.
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