(‘And to think, my parole officer said I’d never amount to anything.’)
Affliction co-founder Todd Beard has added another restraining order to his impressive resume. MMA Payout reports that the convicted felon/pregnant woman-puncher/elderly person-swindler Beard got into it with the CEO of Silver Star Casting, Luke Burrett, who then went out and got the restraining order (which can be viewed here) to stop Beard’s “harassment.”
If you’re not familiar with Silver Star, they make clothes that are very similar in douchieness to Affliction’s, only slightly more ‘consumer-friendly punk rock meets mall food court’ and less ‘appropriated symbols from other cultures meets skulls and shit,’ which is Affliction’s domain. Silver Star also sponsors several MMA fighters (check out their comparatively cheap Rashad Evans t-shirt, for instance), and used to work together with Affliction until the companies had a dispute that led to Silver Star trying to make nice with the UFC.
Things supposedly got worse after UFC 94, which featured the man sponsored by both Affliction and Silver Star, Georges St. Pierre, who had previously been given permission by Affliction to wear Silver Star into the Octagon. Preliminary reports indicate that no one outside the two companies noticed or gave a damn. But leave it to Todd Beard to make an issue of it.
That guy seems to know only one solution to every problem, and it involves threatening someone. Should we be surprised that this is the kind of mind partly responsible for spawning Affliction? We should not. But hey, wait a minute, didn’t Beard supposedly resign from Affliction? Maybe it’s just a coincidence that he’s now harassing the CEO of a company Affliction’s been having problems with lately. Could be that was part of his normal, every day harassin’, and didn’t have anything to do with his business harassin’. You gotta keep those separate, you know.
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Comic gold that one!