Isn’t Nogueira fighting on the Ultimate just a month earlier?

That is fucking hilarious. Affliction made such a big deal out of the “partnership” with Golden Boy….and the “huge” announcement. Priceless. Now they have are competing on the same night with their “partner”. How lame can Afflicton get???

So does anyone else think that Affliction used a picture of Big Nog INSTEAD OF Antonio Rogerio Nogueira??? Look closely, that seriously looks more like Big Nog.

Looks like a some nice fights. I can’t wait.

Well, Kevbo, as you point out in your post, the quote was “MORE than a handful of fights AND a really awesome beard”. But if you have to ask I was comparing the undefeated fighter that Affliction locked up, Fedor, to the, then, undefeated fighter that Elite attached itself to, one Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson.
That said, total reading FAIL on your part dude.

@Canucklechuck

“These guys have been sketchy from the start and are only still around as a fight organization because they hitched their wagon to an undefeated heavyweight with more than a handful of fights and a really awesome beard.”

Who is the undefeated fighter with the beard? AA has a beard but is not undefeated and Fedor does not have a beard and is not undefeated. Even if you consider Fedor’s loss to not be a “real loss” then he still doesn’t have a beard.

Andre Rules!

While boxing and MMA might not be in direct competition Golden Boy wouldn’t be putting on a fight on HBO on the same day if they were truly committed to Affliction and MMA. It also seems it is a sign that Golden Boy isn’t committed to the marketing/promotion or the actual production of the Affliction card as Affliction has been leading us to believe.

LOL @ stupid post.. lame somthing-not-ufc hater
Fedor vs Arlovski is going to be an interesting fight.

Affliction FTW!!!!

Further to Mayhem420 @kissenger,
Basically the first event “tanked” as well. I mean barely 100k PPV buys (and potentially it was even less than that) and the Arena wasn’t even a sell out (although that didn’t stop Attencio from trying to tell us it was). These guys have been sketchy from the start and are only still around as a fight organization because they hitched their wagon to an undefeated heavyweight with more than a handful of fights and a really awesome beard.
And now this partner of Attencio’s, that Todd Beard dude, is making negative comments towards Randy (not to mention Dana and the Fertittas). What a dumb ass. These guys are sooo fucking doomed.

@OBI,
I’m not the first one to say it but I really think that these guys have just rented the Trump brand. It’s fairly well known that he does this kind of thing as a revenue generator. I think the Donald is just fine to help promote Affliction as long as they are still paying the bills. I mean, unless they gave him an equity stake in exchange for use of the Trump name, why would he care what dumb shit these T-shirt guys decide to do. He’s certainly not throwing any of his money at that piece of shit org.

OB&I rather.

OB&A: My understanding is that Trump didn’t put any money in at all, and in fact was paid for his time and association. In the grand scheme of things Affliction is a nothing company, and if it goes south, Trump’s name won’t take even the slightest hit.

EPIC FAILURE!!!

“In other words, they’re not so much partners as direct competitors.”

See, that works on an assumption that I don’t fundamentally agree with – that there’s enough overlap between fans of MMA and boxing to make the two competitive for the fans’ dollar and/or a viable business alliance. Dave Meltzer used to talk a lot about this – and he’s brought up some interesting points in the past – that shows there’s a lot more parallel and “give and take” between MMA and professional wrestling than there is between MMA and boxing. In other words, that when MMA hit its stride a few years back, wrestling was affected in more direct ways financially (eg. PPV buys) than boxing was, which was still having the occassional “banner year” while the UFC boom hit.

Don’t get me wrong – I do think that there’s MMA fans that will watch the Moseley fight on HBO. But I don’t think there’s quite enough overlap to say that these are potential PPV buyers that are now lost.

I’d go further and say that the fact that they aren’t considered direct competition is more evidence of how ridiculous it is that both companies even decided to invest in cross-promotion in the first place, but that’s a rant for another time.

God Affliction is lame!

Goddamnit! I’d really like to see these fights!

OK…Affliction has officially crossed over to the “pathetic” category.

I’ve asked before and I’ll ask again: Why is Donald Trump letting this happen? Is he involved or not? I just don’t think the Donald would allow his name and money to go down the tubes with Alliction…

…unless, of course, nothing was signed?

This is killin’ me. I wanna see Fedor, Barnett, Babalu, Horodecki, Arlovski and Nog fight. If Affliction tanks, where are they gonna go? I can’t think of many fighters in the Japanese MMA orgs that could match up with most of these guys; size/talent-wise. Outside of Horodecki and possibly Arlovski, I don’t see any of these guys getting picked up by the UFC.

@kissenger
Thing is I dont think that Fedor is a huge draw in the US.
Hardcore fans and maybe a few causual one’s know who he is and what he is about but not enough to sell the whole show.
I really do think that if this card does go down that it will be the last one Affliction puts on for a long time if not ever again.

“Antonio Margarito vs. Shane Mosley — which will air on HBO”

SWEET! Thanks for the heads up!

The difference is that this card has the Fedor on it.

it’s the day of reckoning for affliction