HDNet's Guy Metzger Talks About His Upcoming Card And Competing With The UFC
by Paulo Silva on November 13, 2007
and mixed martial arts clothing wear. How do we get Nike, Ford, Chevy and American Airlines behind us? How can we get outside of this medium? Guy Metzger On How HDNet Will Treat Fighters Differently Than Other Organizations:

The thing you asked is do these guys have a friend in me? Absolutely, because I'm going to be straight with them. I'm going to try and get them as much money as we can; that's smart. The aspect of what we're doing, and it may be a little bit disappointing, but they thought Mark was going to come in like all of the other companies with these huge promises and bring Fedor in and all of these guys in and spend millions and millions of dollars to make nothing; to lose money. Mark Cuban did not become a billionaire because he knew how to lose money. He became a billionaire because he learned how to make money. His intention is to be around long-term and to be around long-term, you don't need to go out spending stupid money on things we don't need to spend it on. Our intentions are to create a market that the fans can trust, which is a big deal. The UFC has really built that trust and whether they keep it or not is irrelevant at this point because they have a great market brand. People know the UFC. That's what we're trying to do. We are trying to create HDNet Fights and HDNet Fights Presents, which is our partners like Sport Fight, Steele Cage Productions and Ring of Combat, and hopefully we'll be able to make a deal with some of these other larger companies overseas. HDNet Fights wants to bring the very best that's out there outside of the UFC. We want people to know this is where they can come see some good fights on Friday night and that, eventually, we'll grow to where we could sustain a good Pay Per View.

Metzger On Exciting New Fighters Fighting Under The HDNet Stable:

CB Dollaway is an example of a new fighter that people don't know who is a young, freaking stud. I think within a year's period, he can hang with anybody in the 185 pound or 205 pound weight class. He's a big guy, but I think he'll be a lot more successful at 185 and he could make the weight easy and still be strong; he's a freaking stud. We have Chris Bowles, who's 8-1 and a slightly older fighter, who is 155 pounds that people don't know because he's never been in Pride or the UFC. They are some phenomenal athletes that really just need their chance to shine. Alex Drody is another one who has fought in the UFC and Pride, but not with a huge amount of success because of where he was in his life, but has made a remarkable rebirth after a 6-year layoff and hopefully we get him involved. There's always a guy who you think will be great and they turn out to not be, but that's Murphy's Law. There's a heavyweight out there named Sunia Filikitonga, and I butcher the poor guys name every time I say it so I just call him Sunia because he's Samoan and his name is hard to pronounce. He's a phenomenal athlete and he walks around at like 275 when he's down to fight weight and he could easily walk around at 300 pounds and still be at fight weight. I just want to bring him down to the heavyweight class because it's...

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