Aw hell naw. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has confirmed to Sherdog that Affliction’s second MMA event — which was scheduled to go down October 11th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas — has been postponed to 2009:
Affliction contacted Kizer on Wednesday morning to inform him that the event would be moved to a January date at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
We already knew that the UFC was (allegedly) making things very unpleasant for Affliction in Las Vegas, and it looks like the pressure might have been too much. Unfortunately, they now take a bath on the money they shelled out on advertising for the event — which didn’t appear to be much, granted, although billboards in Times Square aren’t cheap. More importantly, their momentum is totally dead at this point. Six months between events is an eternity if you’re trying to build an MMA organization. I’d say the silver lining to this poop-cloud is that at least Fedor Emelianenko will be healthy enough to compete by January — unless of course he breaks his hand again during his annual New Year’s Eve freak show fight in Japan. More details to come…
Update: MMA Rated is floating the rumor that as few as 700 tickets had been sold for “Day of Affliction.” For ring events, the Thomas & Mack Center can hold 19,522 spectators.
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"Hey ya drunk irishman, why the fuck would fedor want to fight
the Kimbo Slice of the UFC?"
Because if Couture loses, this gives the UFC a chance for another superfight. Fedor vs Lessner would be huge $$$. Also, Fedor has stated that he would be interested in fighting Lessner.
BTW, I don't know what you're smoking, but comparing Lessner to Kimbo is just assinine. Lessner has faced top competition from the get-go in the UFC and has proven himself a dangerous fighter. Just ask Herring.
Kimbo has just had cans thrown at him. Once he came up against someone with experience and some knowledge of the ground-and-pound game (Thompson), Kimbo exposed his weakness in the fight game. Over 11 unanswered shots while he was on the ground? Come on! Kimbo has awesome potential, but he's not close to Lessner's level...yet.
That being said, I don't think that Lessner is up to Couture's level of skill. But Lessner's "Right Hand of Doom" could shake things up for Randy pretty quick.