Comments on: Belfort-Santiago Among Additional Bouts Announced for Affliction: Trilogy

By: russiandoeboi

russiandoeboi — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:03:49 +0000

fairly recently ,
tito did way better against machida
than evans the previous champ.

plus his list of wins is jaw dropping.

tough fights all of them.
so the comment above is kinda disrespectful to his fight ing ability

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:44:48 +0000

jcohl,
A couple things:
The Affliction events are held in the US. And Dana says that he’s never dealt directly with Fedor. Allegedly Fedor’s managers have made some outrageous demands, which lead to the Russian stadium April Fools joke posted by the UFC.

By: jcohl

jcohl — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:27:56 +0000

I’m not trying to firebomb here, and will always give the Red Devil his due, but if we’re going to start considering “challengers”, I’ll put it out there that I [and a lot of others] got the impression that Fedor wasn’t all that into fighting Randy Couture when he re-captured the HW title and started calling him out. Maybe Fedor didn’t like the style match-up, maybe he didn’t like the idea of fighting “Captian America” with thousands chanting “USA! USA!” for the entire length of the fight, or maybe he’s not all that thrilled with fighting in a cage and/or fighting in the US since the PRIDE/UFC merger. I’m not trying to say Fedor ducked Couture, and I know Couture’s own promotional issues didn’t help matters, but if Fedor REALLY wanted to be recognized as the best HW MMA fighter on the planet, he would have signed on the dotted UFC line regardless of the noise from his camp and gotten into the cage with Couture, who would have been considered the underdog.

However if the argument is made that Fedor is doing what he’s doing for financial reasons, and there is nothing wrong with that, then I can’t imagine that Dana White and the UFC wouldn’t have cut him a large enough check to face The Natural for an ACTUAL HW championship from an ACUTAL MMA promotion, and not that Afflict-ed WAMMA-lamma ding dong thing he’s sporting nowadays and asking people to buy as the HW MMA world championship…

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:05:09 +0000

Plus Brett Rogers handled Arlovksi better than Fedor did… I’m just saying…

By: dbiz

dbiz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:31:25 +0000

Before Affliction rolled around, it had been 4 years since Fedor had a real fight. 2 wins does not the greatest ever make. Now that his 2 wins recently are against Timmeh and a glass-jawed Arlovski….

Yeah. Still doesn’t make him the greatest.

Hey, I could be the best boxer at the Special Olympics, but it doesn’t make me Ali.

By: dbiz

dbiz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:29:07 +0000

Mir has a slim chance? He did something that Fedor never could. He stopped Big Nog. To say that is a SLIM chance shows that your using russian pubes as a bungie cord.

Furthermore, we don’t belittle Fedor for not drinking the Kool-Aid, we belittle him for trying to assume the title of best in the world when he won’t fight to prove it. He’d rather fight 7 foot kickboxers under MMA rules than take real fights. It’s his prerogative, sure, but it doesn’t do much for claims of greatness.

By: Vinz_Clortho

Vinz_Clortho — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:44:36 +0000

lawl dbiz

Seriously tho.. fedor is like watching Asilva, Machida, or GStPierre the guy is clearly on another level levelling mofos if you don’t see that then you don’t know much about MMA. Argue all you want but the truth is the truth..

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:54:03 +0000

Can you with a nonbiased opinion honestly say there is a ufc challenger?
Brock? to inexperienced right now
Cain? we saw in the Kongo fight that he’s not as well rounded as advertised.
Carwin? also untested, although he got back to his feet he looked very uncomfortable and nervous on his back with Gonzaga
Nog? Already been beat twice by Fedor
Mir? I think he might have the best chance in the UFC and that’s slim.

I love watching the UFC as much as most but I also recognize that MMA doesn’t revolve around the UFC. It wasn’t all that long ago Pride was the top dog in MMA, you didn’t hear people talking down about UFC fighters saying stuff like “when are they gonna go to pride and face real competition?” I’m not trying to “troll” or argue, I’m just saying it’s getting pretty old with people belittling a fighter for not drinking dana’s koolaide LOL.

By: dbiz

dbiz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:30:40 +0000

They need more good fighters, e.g. NOT Tito.

By: The Zan Man

The Zan Man — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:30:43 +0000

I like this card but I dont know where Affliction will go from here,
they need more big name eg TITO ORTIZ