it never seems to amaze me the negativity on these blogs.is anyone here an mma fan?because i think this is great 4 the sport and all most of you can do is find bad things to say.

I thought CBS was buying ProElite..? And if so wouldn’t it be the same thing as Affliction getting the CBS deal? It exposes their fighters, most of whom don’t have very big drawing power in the US, and will get them recognition enough to sell PPV’s.

Does this mean we’ll see a Fedor/Kimbo match? Because that would be FUCKING awesome. Not saying it’d be that good of a fight, but either way it played out, someone would be exposed.. and that’s awesome. Kimbo doesn’t stand a chance, for the record and in my opinion.

FYI – this does nothing for EliteXC’s hvywt division, it’s an Affliction fight on EliteXC’s card.

i understand that, but as a fan, i think i would expect them to swap and have fighters cross over for fights. if not, then i dont see why a co-promotion would benefit both, it ends up just looking like one org piggybacking on another org’s tv deal, like a parasite….a 95 dollar t-shirt wearing parasite

If it was for a caption contest, I would go with :
“Hell Yeah, I’m gonna crush my balls on this fucking padded corner.
I’m not scared with my balls. My balls > to Cro Cop’s balls.”

Feel free to send my this bloddy T shirt.

Yes, Affliction + Golden Boy are still working together. so…

Affliction + Golden Boy + EliteXC + DREAM + M-1 + HDNet + Showtime + CBS are all working together.

thats sweet there adding an interesting fight to the EXC card but i’d much rather see barnett n arlovski plus it would help diminish some anger over the canceled show, and it would of set up a fedor opponent for their next one, your blowing it affliction.

So is Affliction and Golden Boy still in cahoots?

I’m confused.

I did not use steroids. It was my hyper thyroid tumor.

FYI – this does nothing for EliteXC’s hvywt division, it’s an Affliction fight on EliteXC’s card.

“So what happened to Golden Boy?”

They are providing spit bucket and restroom attendants. Gotta keep it in your wheel house.

Don’t think they’d be showing there faces for a co-promo between Elite and Affliction. That’s like telling your girl she has to make out with your ugly ass brother just because you’re related.

^^ [Edit for above: I meant EliteXC got 6 million viewers... not Affliction.]

So what happened to Golden Boy? I was really looking forward to watching a 50 minute boxing match in between MMA fights.

I’m not sure this really solves the problem for either org, but it may go a ways towards prolonging the life of both until they can really get off the ground. EliteXC brings the TV deal, and Affliction brings the fighters.

Personally, I could care less if EliteXC fails miserably. They have never been about the sport, and their management is atrocious. EliteXC also has a very poor roster of fighters. But they do have a TV deal, which would be helpful for Affliction in getting recognition for some of their fighters. The problem is, Affliction is so heavily leveraged on fighter salaries that it will be extremely hard for them to do anything but lose tons of money on a show on CBS or Showtime. The ONLY way for Affliction to make money is to have a high-selling PPV event. The problem with an EliteXC partnership is that production costs are increased for Affliction, while revenue goes way down from where it would be if they could build a successful PPV show.

A better model might be for Affliction to loan out even more of their top fighters to EliteXC to bolster the October show to help ensure solid ratings, which may just save EliteXC from going bankrupt before the end of the year. As a payback for this loan, EliteXC would then loan Kimbo to Afflicition’s January show, and they could make it a PPV. Having Kimbo on a PPV event, alongside fighters like Arlovski and Fedor, would really help sell the event and may even help Affliction actually break even on it.

That scenario could really help both organizations. But if what they are saying above is true, that instead, Affliction will look to have its January event on CBS, then I think both organizations will fail. Affliction already got 6 million people to watch Kimbo. They won’t get a single person more to watch Fedor, because everyone who cares about Fedor was already watching. With the salaries Affliction pays out, and with the low revenue stream generated by the poor deal EliteXC has with CBS, I don’t see how that is the route to success for either org. Especially if they decide to throw some boxing in the middle of it…

although this is probably the best fight on the card other than Shields and Daly IMO, it still hurts my balls that Kimbo v. Shamrock will be the main event

but a co-promotion with eliteXC and Affliction, if done right, will be great. Alone they had so-so fight cards, but with the ability to swap fighters and have more challengers for eliteXC titles and, i guess WAMMA, the possibilities will be huge.

this does wonders for eliteXC’s heavyweight division. before it was just kimbo and big brown silva, but now with the heavy’s from affliction, there shouldnt be a problem finding silva’s next opponent, whether it be a few months to a year from now

That’d be crazy if Roy Nelson Ko’d Arlovski. I’d laugh.

aside from any topic related to the article — I think Barnett would take Arlovski, it’d probably go to decision though.