Affliction backs UFC into a corner with Las Vegas event

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Affliction backs UFC into a corner with Las Vegas event
Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts found this 7/24/2008 on sports.yahoo.com [flag]
Scrap the notion that Affliction fighting will wait until November for it's next pay-per-view card, Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole reported last night that October 11 is the date . In an absolute stunner, the Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas is host venue. For those of you who don't know, UFC's corporate office is 4.7 miles from the arena. Talk about Affliction VP Tom Atencio ( ... [link]

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Affliction: Fedor vs Arlovski Set for Oct. 11 in Vegas
Published 7/24/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow: Front Page Posts
... And as Steve Cofield points out, the UFC already has an event scheduled for the UK on October 11 so there won't be another free event on Spike, not live anyway. ...

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski Oct. 11, How Will UFC Counter-Program Affliction?
Published 7/24/2008 at FanHouse
... The October 11 date is significant because it's going to be very, very hard for UFC to counter-program Affliction the way it did last Saturday. UFC 89 is scheduled for October 18 and UFC 90 is scheduled for October 25, and it would just be asking too much for UFC to do three straight Saturday live shows. ...

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