Affliction has the backing of Donald Trump along with their clothing line, has the some of the best MMA fighters in the world and has put on a top notch fight card production, but it has no fighting promotion website or at least nothing with any value. Affliction's official website is http://www.afflictionclothing.com. ...
Tom Atencio said earlier this week that while he won't announce the final numbers, that the numbers are over 100,000 PPV Buys. Most people have claimed this to be a HUGE success, but I am not sure why. Dave Meltzer reported that UFC 86 did 520,000 buys and GSP vs. Matt ...
As you may or may not know, the final press conference for Affliction Banned has been completed today. With that, we had the weigh ins as well. Below are links to the press conference and the weigh ins. You do have to be registered with the forums to watch but ...
In a story from MMA Junkie found from our MMA News Hub, it was stated on TAGG Radio that Affliction one day would like to work with the UFC to have one champion for each weight class. If we can all come together and work together as one organization and we have an undisputed champion -- heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, etc. -- then, yeah it's great, but is it going to happen? I don't know.
According to MMA Weekly, Affliction will use the unified MMA rules. This ruling of course will allow the fighters to use elbows on the ground, which has been the most glaring difference between many of the U.S. fight promotions. While organizations such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship and EliteXC have always allowed elbows under the unified rules, other promotions such as the International Fight League and Strikeforce have taken away elbows as a legal maneuver.
For the past year, Dana White and the UFC have been in negotiations to work on a network deal. Some of the major networks still rumored to be in the running are Fox and ESPN. CBS and NBC are out of the running for obvious reasons. EliteXC hooked up with CBS and Stikeforce set it off with NBC. "We’re real close to a network, I’m going to say in three months.”
For the first part, we take a story from a UK News source that interviewed UFC's Michael Bisping. Bisping stated several thing but the biggest statement that has the internet buzz culminating was: It’s going to be good to see if Fedor is still the man but I’ve heard on the grapevine from inside sources that he could be injured.
On July 19th, Antônio Rogério Nogueira, brother to UFC Heavyweight Champion, was scheduled to face Vernon White at the Affliction's first event Banned. MMAJUNKIE.COM broke the story on the 25th saying that White was pulled from the card after testing positive for a diuretic. Its expected that Edwin Dewees will step ...
Yes, I realize the news is a little old but don't think many have seen either and wanted to put it right here in a blog post. The videos are also going to be in the forum soon but here you go:
In the voice of Flavor Flav: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW So now not only is this going to be one of the best fight nights ever for July 19th because of the free UFC event but Affliction Banned is pulling out all the cards up their sleeves to have a huge hit on their ...
Is Dana White a chump for his announcement that the UFC will be having a show July 19th; the same night Affliction's big debut is on? I'm happy as a fan of all things MMA that I can watch two great shows but what this tells me is that White is certainly concerned with Affliction's entrance on to the MMA scene.
Maybe we can shed some new light on Dana White's announcement tomorrow. It is being discussed and talked about having a UFC Event on July 19th. Why does this date sound familiar? Well it's the same night as the Affliction Banned event on Pay-Per-View (which you can watch here for free). Whether this is Dana White's Big Announcement is still uncertain. It doesn't seem like this should be the "mind blowing" announcement at all.
While the Main Cards will be appearing on PPV on July 19th, FSN will have at least two preliminary fights starting at 4:30 PT on July 19th. If you dont have Fox Sports Net you should contact your local cable company or go to favorite watering hole. The planned fights on ...