mma.fanhouse.com - 1/24/2009
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by Michael David Smith Filed under: Affliction , MMA Media Watch During the HDNet broadcast of today's Affliction: Day of Reckoning weigh-in, the retired MMA star turned announcer Bas Rutten had some choice words for M-1 Global executive Jerry Millen. After Millen introduced Fedor Emelianenko ...
themmafiend.com - 1/27/2009
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themmafiend.com —
J Andrew Yount recently sat down wit El
Guapo himself, Bas Rutten, and got his thoughts on
the current state of MMA, his favorite story, and much more.
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Exclusive Bas Rutten Interview
bloodyelbow.com - 1/29/2009
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bloodyelbow.com —
From MMAJunkie : The Florida-based Xtreme Fighting Championships,
an upstart organization that's averaged 10,000 fans to its
first six events, has signed a multi-year broadcast deal with HDNet. XFC representatives today told MMAjunkie.com ...
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Florida's XFC Signs Broadcast Deal With HDNet
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Bas Rutten calls Jerry Millen an ‘A**hole’ on HD Net’s MMA live
The SAV SCI MMA blog —
... Millen introduced Fedor Emelianenko, the camera lingered on him, and Rutten (who may or may not have known that his microphone was on) could be heard saying, “That’s the a**hole. Oh, did I just say this on TV?” Rutten and Millen worked together in Pride and have a long history of animosity, with Rutten claiming, among other things, that Millen knows nothing about MMA. If there’s any down time during Saturday night’s show, I’d love to see Rutten and Millen step into the ring together. Bas Rutten calls Jerry Millan “a**hole” @ AOL Fanhouse Here’s Bas Rutten with SAVSCI writer ...
Bas still doesn’t like Jerry
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap —
... I’m going to do my best to set aside any anti-Affliction bias I have today and just concentrate on getting hyped for tonight’s fights. But here’s one little petty bit of news I just had to pass along: ...
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Tom Atencio: "No truth" to rumors of poor Affliction ticket sales
mmajunkie.com 1/20/2009 — Although Affliction Vice President Tom Atencio is tight-lipped about specific sales totals for the Jan. 24 "Affliction: Day of Reckoning" event, he maintains sales are "comparable" to its first show that took place in July 2008.
However, despite ...
Chris Horodecki not medically cleared for Saturday's Affliction event
mmajunkie.com 1/22/2009 — Former International Fight League stand-out Chris Horodecki (12-1) has been pulled from Saturday's "Affliction: Day of Reckoning" bout with Dan Lauzon (11-2).
Affliction Vice President Tom Atencio today told MMAjunkie.com Horodecki was unable to ...
Snowden: Worrying About Dollars makes no Sense
fiveouncesofpain.com 1/23/2009 — Affliction is promoting what will likely be the biggest non-UFC MMA fight card of the year Saturday-and almost no one is talking about it. Fans that are talking are discussing the finances above all else. How can Affliction afford to pay its undercard ...
Affliction: Day of Reckoning Preview
thebiglead.com 1/23/2009 — Affliction started as a clothing line that just made t-shirts with pictures of skulls, black roses, dragons and various other winged creatures. Eventually, they decided they would start their own MMA promotion to compete with the UFC. They held ...
Oscar De La Hoya on Affliction, Fedor
blog.thesavagescience.com 1/27/2009 — Here’s some raw footage from the Affliction: Day of Reckoning postfight press conference with Oscar De La Hoya addressing the future of Golden Boy Promotions’ relationship with Affliction and the general awesomeness of Fedor Emelianenko.