The Affliction weigh-ins at the Honda Center in Anaheim offered a few surprises today. For one, Donald Trump showed up “straight from the golf course” to insist that the event was sold out and that pay-per-view buys were through the roof, which seems like a very liberal interpretation of the truth at this point. For another, the Aleksander Emelianenko-Paul Buentello bout was scrapped when Emelianenko “didn’t meet CSAC licensing standards.”
That could mean a lot of different things, but right now it mostly means that Aleks is out and “Big Daddy” Gary Goodridge, who was hanging around before the weigh-ins started, is Buentello’s new opponent. Buentello can be seen in the above video from MMA Rated expressing his frustration and confusion right after the weigh-ins.
The full results from the weigh-in look like this:
FEDOR EMELIANENKO: 230 LBS.
TIM SYLVIA: 263 LBS.
(WAMMA Heavyweight Championship)
ANDREI ARLOVSKI: 241 LBS.
BEN ROTHWELL: 264 LBS.
JOSH BARNETT: 256 LBS.
PEDRO RIZZO: 242 LBS.
RENATO SOBRAL: 201 LBS.
MIKE WHITEHEAD: 206 LBS.
MATT LINDLAND: 185 LBS.
FABIO NASCIMENTO: 185 LBS.
ANTONIO ROGERIO NOGUEIRA: 205 LBS.
EDWIN DEWEES: 205 LBS.
JJ AMBROSE: 171 LBS.
MIKE PYLE: 171 LBS.
JUSTIN LEVENS: 189 LBS.
RAY LIZAMA: 186 LBS.
TERRY MARTIN: 185 ½ LBS.
VITOR BELFORT: 185 LBS.
SAVANT YOUNG: 145 LBS.
MARK HOMINICK: 144 LBS.


Aleks is the man, and surprisingly articulate, I am very disapointed he won’t be fighting. I just hope he didn’t fail a drug test or something.