Affliction 2: Day Of Reckoning Promo[Video]

by Kelvin Hunt on Jan 20, 2009 2:28 PM EST Comment 5 comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8p52evJW2o&eurl=http://mmaweekly.com/blog/index.asp&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Since Affliction has done such a poor job of promoting their second event, I suppose this is the least I can do. I have a couple of questions:

1. Why did Affliction schedule a conference about their upcoming fight card on the same day/time as the President's Inauguration?

2. How can Affliction make money when the same bars that showed their first card will not be showing their upcoming card?

I highly doubt we'll ever see a 3rd show from Affliction. They will more than likely lose more money on this show than they did the first one. When you look at the Affliction fighter salaries, UFC counter-programming, the boxing match they are competing with, the WEC event the next day, UFC 94 on next week, and bars not purchasing their PPV? It's going to be a wrap, which is unfortunate for the fighters.

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wow, they treat these cards like Fedor’s the only attraction….that’s another big reason why Affliction will fail…if they put too much stock in Fedor it’s going to be like Kimbo was for EliteXC

by Charles Walker on Jan 20, 2009 4:49 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yo, I added some more info on why they’ll fail…check it.

by Kelvin on Jan 20, 2009 4:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

well Arlovski will be back in the UFC, which is good

by Charles Walker on Jan 20, 2009 6:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

One thing that I’ve noticed on “Fedor’s” Vlog (we all know it is millen’s) is that it is mostly that Millen guy talking about how great fedor is, that he’s the best in the world and that he is going to beat andrei.

Isn’t the promoter of a fight supposed to be neutral and hype up both fighters as being good? Betting Freddie Roach $5,000 that Fedor will beat Andrei doesn’t seem like a good idea. Who knows what this guy could be doing behind the scenes to stack the deck against Andrei.

I’m not saying that he is going to try to rig the fight or anything, but this is the same type of propaganda that EliteXC and the Shaw’s spewed out for Kimbo and we saw how that turned out.

I really think that the promoter should stay neutral as to who he wants to win the fights. Dana never blatantly sucks off another fighter when he is trying to get interest in the UFC events. Millen and “Fedor’s” Video Blog is a joke. For someone who hates Dana White so much he sure is doing a great job of copying everything that he does.

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