Id rather pay money for this card than the reality TV divas that were fed with the UFC.

The IFL sucks, the UFC is unvenly mediocre, WEC has a few interesing fighters, Elite is the image of their star vehicule and the last DREAM was amazing.

SO yeah,,, many people want Affliction to work.

As long as they dont sign Ricco Rodriguez fat gut, this will be a great card.

I’m of the opinion that Affliction should have taken this BOATLOAD of money they are shelling out, and all their extensive connections, and sank that into the IFL. They would have a good portion of control over an already established company (albeit in the pits a little bit just now, but it would turn around), and could stage thier fights there. That would give them access to a larger range of fighters too, instead of making a competing company, which further sepaerates the talent pools.

cage porato should make a photo album.

I mean, all of US are pretty psyched to spend 45 bucks to watch their first event. Which is more than I can say for any show that a non-ufc organization has put on in quite a while. But unlike other companies in the business they do have an already existing and successful product line.

Knowing how much the clothing sales brings in, they know how much they can afford to lose. Again, that’s a singular quality that Affliction has.

It doesn’t mean any degree of guaranteed success, but it creates a lot of lead time for them to lose money on MMA promoting while still staying in the black as a company.

Now let’s say they are going to fold, well a lot of these guys are under the same management. Do you think that gives Cox’s fighters some bargaining power i they want to return to the UFC? Fans are going to want see the Affliction heavyweight champion face the UFC champ down the line. Right?

So what do you all think, does that give the Affliction fighters, Cox’s stable etc. a good place to negotiate from, or do you think the UFC the will make them crawl and fight for peanuts?

http://www.livescience.com/health/080513-overconfidence-failure.html

The problem is that the MMA market size hasn’t been increasing signficantly, but the number of companies trying to compete in the market has.

That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a one-and-done sorta thing. I’m looking forward to the fight and I will plunk down the cash for the pay-per-view, but future fights? We’ll see if they happen. I’m just going to enjoy this one for what it’s worth.