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fiveouncesofpain.com - 10/3/2008
Saturday’s co-promotion between EliteXC and Affliction could be the start of something beautiful… or something ugly
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On Saturday night the MMA world will get to witness a former UFC heavyweight title holder taking on the final reigning IFL heavyweight champion representing Affliction in an EliteXC cage and beamed to the United States on CBS’ airwaves. Isn’t that what MMA should be all about: promotions ...

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Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap:  Working together is overrated

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Working together is overrated
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap — Working together is overrated October 3, 2008 – 9:33 am by fightlinker Sam Caplan has a detailed history of how promotions working together rarely hits a synergistic level and usually ends up being a clusterfuck: One partnership that’s been missed is the partnership of promotions that was forged under ProElite’s banner. The idea seemed solid: buy a number of successful smaller organizations, pool the head talents and create a super promotion known as EliteXC. The smaller organizations would act as feeders to the ‘main show’ and supply a steady stream of cash and potential stars. Unfortunately that hasn’t worked out. The partnership has simply gutted a lot of the quality from these feeders as the main guys work to keep things at ProElite ...

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