(*slow clap* ‘Yes, yes, Mr. Emelianenko.  We are all very impressed with your accomplishments.  But now you must taste my pee-pee-pee.’)

All right, so we didn’t do all that well with our UFC 93 picks (I mean, we both beat the hell out of Perennial, though who didn’t?), but we’re loading up again for Affliction and hoping to beat our fairly dismal scores of 13 (BG) and 14 (BF) this time around.  

If you haven’t already, remember to add your picks to our Affliction: Day of Reckoning Pick-em Contest for your chance to win an autographed copy of L. Jon Wertheim’s Blood in the Cage.

Naturally, we’ll be liveblogging all the action Saturday night beginning at 9 pm ET, so make sure to come on back and join the party.  As a side note, we’re scratching the Dan Lauzon-Bobby Green bout from our pick-em contest on account of the late switch, so don’t even sweat it if you got your picks in before Chris Horodecki’s bulging disk cost him a chance to fight.  

Our picks are after the jump.

Ben Goldstein

Fedor Emelianenko def. Andrei Arlovski via T/KO, R2
Josh Barnett def. Gilbert Yvel via submission, R2
Vitor Belfort def. Matt Lindland via decision
Renato Sobral def. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou via submission, R3
Kiril Sidelnikov def. Paul Buentello via T/KO, R1
Jay Hieron def. Jason High via decision
Vladimir Matyushenko def. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira via decision
L.C. Davis def. Bao Quach via submission, R3
Antonio Duarte def. Albert Rios via submission, R2
Brett Cooper def. Patrick Speight via decision

Ben Fowlkes

Fedor Emelianenko def. Andrei Arlovski via submission, R1
Josh Barnett def. Gilbert Yvel via submission, R2
Vitor Belfort def. Matt Lindland via TKO, R3
Renato Sobral def. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou via TKO, R3
Paul Buentello def. Kiril Sidellnikov via decision
Jay Hieron def. Jason High via TKO, R2
Vladimir Matyushenko def. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira via decision
L.C. Davis def. Bao Quach via decision
Antonio Duarte def. Albert Rios via submission, R2
Brett Cooper def. Patrick Speight via TKO, R1