Report: Affliction Could Go Head-to-Head With UFC 100
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Affliction’s third and possibly final event, which is rumored to be headlined by Fedor Emelianenko against Josh Barnett, could take place on July 11th. If that date sounds familiar it’s when the UFC has scheduled UFC 100, with Affliction potentially putting their event in direct competition with the UFC’s historic card, which is expected to feature the anticipated heavyweight rematch between champions Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir as well as UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre against challenger Thiago Alves.
Five Ounces of Pain first reported the possibility of the competing events earlier today:
“Several fighters and managers have contacted FiveOuncesOfPain.com in recent days informing the site that they have been approached by Affliction officials about the possibility of accepting restructured contracts in order to compete on the show.
According to the sources, Affliction wants to reduce it overhead for a potential third event so that it could host it on a network or basic cable television platform, as it would be next to impossible to convince PPV distributors to promote an event that would be in direct competition with the UFC.
Sources made it a point to caution Five Ounces of Pain that the possibility of Affliction counter-programming UFC 100 was still only in preliminary stages. Additionally, several insiders we spoke with expressed pessimism about Affliction being able to pull off the July 11 date.
However, meetings are expected to take place within the next several weeks regarding a possible television partner for the proposed event. If enough fighters were willing to accept a reduced rate to compete on the show and if a deal with a suitable television partner could be reached, the door would then be open for Affliction to go head-to-head with UFC 100.”
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Affliction would be crazy to go head to head with the UFC on that night. Fedor is one of my fav. fighters, but they cannot match the card that the UFC has. GSP against Thiago Alves and the rematch between Lesnar and Mir, not to mention several other great fights that will take place that night. UFC 100 has many big name fighters that night that have a $hit load of fans. Affliction(whoever has the final decision) should not even consider it. After Fedor ko’s or tko’s or subs Barnett he should work something out with the UFC.
wow that would be stupid like anybody’s going to buy fedor and josh barnett over gsp alves mir lesnar bisping henderson they will lose ANY casual fan attention.
unless mir isnt healed and pulls out and they get tito vs bobalu i see affliction losing even more money
so ya its put it on T.V. or bust.
Out of all the UFC PPV’s to go against 100 is not the one. I don’t care if it is free, that card is stacked. It would make more sense to try n go against 101. But affliction has been run poorly starting with over paying for old talent, so this move would not shock me.
Hahahahahahaha Affliction going head to head with UFC 100 that’s too funny is it April 1st?
To have any chance at success, Affliction has to put this on free TV. Even then, I feel like this would be the final nail in the coffin (which it probably is going to be regardless of date.) To make the conscious decision to go up against UFC 100 is asinine. They would be much better off to run the same card on free TV the week immediately after UFC 100.
i wish they didnt
im no specialist but
im pretty sure they wont sell more than UFC
even with fedor and barnett
um yeah ok? tough choice there? watch a fight that may not end up to be too exciting since the guys are friends orrrrr watch two UFC title fights in addition to a whole stacked card.
suicide mission anyone?
If Affliction’s serious about this, they will not survive past the summer. I would like to think they’re smarter than going head to head against potentially the biggest fight card ever. They should take advantage of all the hype that will be leading up to UFC 100 and have it a week or two before.
What’s up with the site? I log in and when I hit a story it logs me out? I don’t know.
Well this could be it for the T-Shirt guys. They must have completely lost their fu**ing minds.
timcat,
Maybe it’s a caching issue, try hitting ctrl+f5 once you go to the page and see that you’re logged out again.
can someone please tell me why the story says “affliction’s possibly last event. are rumors going around that they might close down. have not heard anything about this. please help
Because they have lost money on every event, and most people didn’t expect them to make it to a third event.
Does anyone know what time Condit vs. Kampmann is going to air on the west coast?
Try UFC.com
8pm eastern and 5pm west coast, thanks justin
i think this is all just hype to get people talking about afflictions next card i realy dont see them doing this not even on T.V. they will probably just change the date at a later time once theyve generated a bit of buzz.
The only way i would be slightly intersted in watching Affliction would be if Tito Ortiz moved up to Heavyweight to take on Fedor, that is the only way they would spark interesr in me.
I doubt this will happen because like it said in the story, no ppv will put this agianst 100. this is a last chance desperate move by the t-shirt guys. at least they are trying, but do it the week before or something. theres at least 3 months until 100. put a show on then. dana is probably laughing and knows this will be the end of affliction. the only thing that would be better than them closing is if fedor loses to josh. it can happen. I hope it does.
affliction must be super drunk! haha. they would lose so much money. lesnar vs mir 2, gsp vs alves, henderson vs bisping, bonnar vs coleman, jones vs o’brien, fith vs paulo thiago! id pay 100 bucks for that pay per view alone, and these guys are all going to throw down and give all the world the greatest mma show for years to come.
Most of the fights at UFC 100 are Main Event caliber fights. Affliction should just have their event a different day or just give it up, no other MMA organization can compete with the UFC, not now, not ever simply because the UFC was the first of it’s kind and when anyone speaks MMA, casual fan or not, the first thing that comes to mind when people talk “Ultimate Fighting” or “Cage Fighting” is the UFC.
Dumbo- A lot of the rumors have swirled because of an interview Atencio did where he basically said they were losing money on the fights because they were paying too much to Golden Boy and Mr. Trump however, Atencio did come out and retracted those comments later.
Also everyone it does say television network, so they may just make it free but honestly I’d rather pay or go to a bar that will have UFC 100.
About Tito… he said he would not be ready until August of 2009 and cannot even sign a deal until June, so he wouldn’t be fighting on the July 11th date.
Are you calling me dumbo?
I assume it’s in reference to the above commenter “dumbo” haha.
haha definitely not Marvelknight guy asking about Affliction posted as Dumbo
Works for me. This is why the DVR was invented. I’ll DVR the Affliction fights and watch them right after UFC 100. Just have to make sure I have enough beer and pretzels for 6 straight hours of MMA.
I don’t think Affliction would pose much of a threat to UFC 100. However, the rumor that Floyd Mayweather Jr. may fight on that date may be a little more damaging.
Sorry about that CHris L. i’m a bit slow sometimes
Note they said network TV so nobody has to buy anything.. I would tune in to watch fedor fight a round then go back to UFC 100