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Affliction’s Atencio confirms recent talks with the UFC
Affliction Entertainment Vice President Tom Atencio confirmed to FiveOuncesOfPain.com on Monday afternoon that a reported September meeting between Affliction and UFC officials in which the UFC tried to stop Affliction from promoting shows did in fact take place. The story was first broken by ...
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Atencio Confirms UFC Meeting
5thRound.com - UFC 107 Play-by-Play Results, MMA News, Fight Rumors — ... on November 15th. FiveOuncesOfPain spoke with Atencio early Monday morning and confirmed Affliction’s intentions with the UFC. “It was just a basic meeting to help get Xtreme Couture on Randy (Couture) since Randy is our partner, so that’s what the meeting was really about,” Atencio told the website. Last week’s report was that the UFC was willing to lift the ban that they had placed on their fighters from wearing Affliction clothing, if Affliction agreed to refrain from promoting future MMA events. Atencio said that although the topic came up, nothing substantial ever came ...

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Ropes, Ring and Cage — ... -Speaking of Affliction, Affliction Entertainment VP Tom Atencio confirmed to Five Ounces of Pain that the talks between UFC and Affliction in September did happen, but that Affliction never took the idea of shutting down their MMA operations seriously. ...

Atencio
5thRound.com - UFC 107 Play-by-Play Results, MMA News, Fight Rumors — ... on November 15th. FiveOuncesOfPain spoke with Atencio  and confirmed Affliction’s intentions with the UFC. “It was just a basic meeting to help get Xtreme Couture on Randy (Couture) since Randy is our partner, so that’s what the meeting was really about,” Atencio told the website. Last week’s report was that the UFC was willing to lift the ban that they had placed on their fighters from wearing Affliction clothing, if Affliction agreed to refrain from promoting future MMA events. Atencio said that although the topic came up, nothing substantial ever came from it. “It didn’t ...

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