All Golden Glory Fighters Cut from UFC and Strikeforce

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Only days after Strikeforce’s abrupt dismissal of heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem, three of the Dutchman’s teammates have also been ousted from the Zuffa ranks.

“I am very disappointed to let you know that Marloes Coenen, John Einemo and Valentijn Overeem have been cut from Strikeforce [and the] UFC,” Golden Glory head coach Martijn de Jong wrote Wednesday on his personal Twitter account.

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Wow, this is some serious shit. We obviously don't have all of the details yet but it seems that Golden Glory definitely did something to piss off the boys over at Zuffa. The only one to survive the cut was Sergei Kharitonov (for now?). What does this mean for Women's MMA? Coenen seems to be the only "big loss" in this most recent development.

Holy shit! Yeah, they definitely pissed someone off! "Oh you were the top female 135lber... not any more!"

Zuffa's domindation of MMA has its down sides. This is one of them.

Chrom wrote:

Holy shit! Yeah, they definitely pissed someone off! "Oh you were the top female 135lber... not any more!"

Well, formerly top 135lber.

I gotta believe there is more to this than just spite due to Reem's shenanigans.
Either way, I am sure this is gonna end up being really, really weird before all is said and done.

Yeah, for sure! Its already odd as it is.

I'm wondering if the whole team raised some hell as a result of Reem getting cut. The weird thing is why did Coenen, JOE, and Lil Reem get the ax but Kharitonov didn't?

I'm willing to bet once we hear the reason, it's gonna be a hell of a WTF moment...

Apparently it's because of GG's management wanting to get paid directly, instead of the way everybody else in the MMA world does business by paying the fighters directly (who then pay thier own managers).

Basicly, the fighters are now getting fucked over because of the way their management goes about getting paid/ paying the fighters.

Paying the management instead of the fighter seems awfully sketchy to me. Way too much of a chance of the fighter getting screwed out of a payday

Sounds like a boxing management deal to me.....
Ass backwards.

Marloes posted this picture as "Proof" that Dana is lying about the reason behind the firing.


What exactly that proves is beyond me... aside from the obvious... it is written out to Coenen... But isn't that what Dana has already said they do....write checks out to fighters. After said check was written, my guess is thats when the management team called up bitching
and then Zuffa probably said "This is how we do things" GG likely
wouldn't budge on their end and we all know Dana wasn't gonna give in.
So we get what we have here. Its a shrewd business move, but one that I
agree with.