Hard feelings or just today's cold, hard mixed martial arts (MMA) market reality?
Either way, No. 5-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight contender, Gegard Mousasi, is not giving his current employer a favorable referral if it intends to once again enter the Satoshi Ishii free agent sweepstakes. Back in 2009, shortly after the Japanese Olympic gold medal-winning judoka (Beijing, 2008) revealed his intentions to transition to MMA, UFC was hot-and-heavy about inking him to a deal.
However, Ishii was the definition of indecisive and ultimately decided to stay closer to home.