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Affliction's Expensive Antics: Andrei Arlovski, Josh Barnett, Fedor Emelianenko
Affliction's Expensive Antics: Andrei Arlovski, Josh Barnett, Fedor Emelianenko
Couple of news items crossed my path this morning. First off, Dave Meltzer reports in the Wrestling Observer : It’s an expensive commercial for Affliction because they are paying for the fight and Arlovski will be earning in the range of seven figures if he wins. This means ...
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Arlovski/Nelson is one big expensive ad
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap — ... October 2, 2008 – 10:19 am by fightlinker If you were wondering how EliteXC was justifying the financial burden of adding Arlovski vs Nelson to their CBS card last second, it turns out they don’t have to. Because Affliction is paying for the whole thing. When I first heard about this, I thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. But now I’m wonder how much advertisers pay for a 30 second spot during the commercials. If you look at this from the angle of Affliction essentially buying a big ad on CBS that will last at least 10 minutes (walk outs, announcing, ...

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