Affliction Entertainment Spoiled Child of MMA?

July 27th, 2009 |

Author: Zdot

Affliction matchmaking is really peculiar. They entered MMA spending millions of dollars hiring top-notch mixed martial arts fighters creating a crisis in MMA fighter salary. They were paying much more that what they were really worth, causing a massive departure from the UFC.

Affliction pretended to be the best opposition to the UFC, but they never answered to the Dana White attacks. They never tried to counter the UFC maneuvers when they were kicked out off Las Vegas for their second show, Affliction: Day of Reckoning on October 11, 2008. They just postponed the event to a later date.

They were forced to change the lineup of the event and to do what the UFC wanted. They never tried to keep the date and the lineup and to find another location to hold the show. They just bent over and accepted without fighting. Strange for a fighting promotion.

Right after, for their third and last event, after Josh Barnett got caught juicing, they called off the show after picking Vitor Belfort, a middleweight fighter, to face a heavyweight. They could choose Brett Rogers or event better Jeff Monson to face Fedor Emelianenko, but no…

Finally they canceled the event without explanations and leaved fighters unemployed. Those athletes invested money and time to prepare their fight. Affliction does not seem to care about it. They really look like a spoiled child who wanted to get the best champions like some stupid billionaire hire Hollywood stars to their birthday party.

They proved Dana White right. They are just T-shirt sellers that have nothing to do in the fighting business. Sticks and stones, the UFC announced that Affliction might be back sponsoring the UFC….

They only had money to oppose to the UFC and finally, they lost a bunch.