Middleweights Vitor Belfort and Matt Lindland will square off on the main card of Affliction “Day of Reckoning”, which takes place on October 11th in Las Vegas and airs on pay-per-view.
Belfort (17-8) defeated Terry Martin at Affliction’s first-ever event in July, but is currently serving a 180-day medical suspension and will need to be cleared [...]

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz has signed with Affliction, according to Sports Illustrated.
“I guarantee you that my contract will be like no other. It will be a ground-breaking record contract for sure, without a doubt,” Ortiz told Sports Illustrated. “There’s so much money to be made right now in mixed martial arts and [...]

Affliction today announced its next event, “Day of Reckoning”, which will take place on October 11th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas and air on pay-per-view.
Former UFC heavyweight champions Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett will square off in the main event with a shot a WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko likely on [...]

The scheduled meeting between recently-crowned WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko and UFC veteran Andrei Arlovski slated for Affliction 2 has been canceled, at least for the time being, according to a report from fiveouncesofpain.com:
“A reliable source speaking on the condition of anonyomity revealed…that Emelianenko has been dealing with a lingering hand injury that will make [...]

After losing what even Donald Trump might call a small fortune on their first MMA showcase, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Affliction proposed a 50% pay cut for the fighters competing in their second event, tentatively planned for October. Given the purses Affliction coughed up their first time around, I’d [...]

Matt Lindland and Vitor Belfort will clash for the first-ever Affliciton middleweight championship at Affliction 2 on October 11th in Las Vegas, according to Tatame.com.
“It’ll be a great fight, we’ll see who is the best of the world there”, Belfort told Tatame. “I saw his fight with Negão and he’s a warrior. He comes be [...]

Affliction “Banned” headliners Fedor Emelianenko and Tim Sylvia are among nine fighters who have been issued medical suspensions by the California State Athletic Commission following the July 19th event in Anaheim, California.
Fedor, who defeated Sylvia via submission just 36-seconds into the opening round, has been suspended for 180 days due to a right hand injury [...]

UFC, WEC, and IFL veteran Justin Levens (9-8), whose scheduled bout against Ray Lamaza at Affliction “Banned” was canceled due to time constraints, has tested positive for the banned painkiller Oxymorphone, according to the California State Athletic Commission.

Leven’s pre-event drug test returned levels of 10,141 ng/mL, nearly 10,000 ng/mL higher than the CSAC’s cutoff for oxymorphone of 120 ng/mL.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz has signed with Affliction and will debut with the promotion at Affliction 2 on October 11th against former UFC light heavyweight challenger Renato “Babalu” Sobral, according to Yahoo! Sports:
Sources tell Yahoo! Sports that the Oct. 11 date has been submitted to the Nevada State Athletic Commission and that the [...]

When the official salaries for Affliction “Banned” were released last week by the California State Athletic Commission many questions arose surrounding the salary of Fedor Emelianenko, who took home $300,000, $500,000 less than his opponent Tim Sylvia who Fedor dispatched in just 36-seconds.
NBCSports.com is reporting that a sizable portion of Emelianenko’s salary was received up [...]