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MMA video fix: Affliction: Banned revisited
Brawl Sports —
• Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell (part 1) (part 2)
• Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
• Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao
• Renato Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead
• Vitor Belfort vs. Terry Martin
• Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Edwin Dewees
Affliction: Day of Reckoning Preview
The Big Lead —
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 their first event, Affliction: Banned, on July 19, 2008 and it did decent business, both live and on PPV. (Keeping in mind it was against a free UFC Fight Night on SpikeTV.)
Saturday night, we get Affliction’s second offering, “Day of Reckoning.” Originally scheduled for October 11, the card was rescheduled when Affliction’s most important property, Fedor ...
Mercer and Sylvia will box in a cage
Bad Left Hook —
You might have heard recently that the New Jersey State Athletic Commission denied sanctioning for a boxing match between 47-year old Ray Mercer and former UFC heavyweight champ Tim Sylvia. But don't worry. The fight will go on.
In a cage.
They're going to box in a cage.
They're going to box in a cage in Birmingham, Alabama.
Said schyster promoter Monte Cox:
"It just makes sense on so many levels, and it adds another twist to the main event," Cox stated in reference to the cage.
1. It makes sense only on the level that the rest of the show is MMA and thus held in the cage, and it ...
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