Golden Boy is only involved with Affliction for event management and presentation purposes if I recall correctly.

Bad news For Affliction. It seems every one who can do something to hinder their second event is doing so.

yup. i still think theyre done after 2 shows.

not to say they will – but they certainly could

It should be noted that they didn’t hire the pregnant woman hitting scam artist he was one of the founders of the company. You could put off hiring the guy as poor judgement but Affliction was Beard’s and Atencio’s idea from the very start.

The idea is to maximize PPV buys for BOTH cards, if the partnership is worth a shit. That aim is not served by having both fights on the same night in the same city.

Affliction is dead, Golden Boy does not give a shit about MMA, and ProElite ain’t coming back. Yey.

Since Margarito’s their fighter and not Golden Boy’s. And is also the guy who’s going to be drawing probably 70% of the crowd as Mosley has never drawn anything.

I’m not the boxing fan I once was, but there is probably not a single match that I can think of, that I would pick over UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, Dream, Affliction or even EXC if they were around.

I’m not saying you should be the same, lol, simply offering a different perspective as to where I place boxing compared to MMA these days.

in the world dude lol… I like Mosely but he put on a crap performance in his last fight against Mayorga, although the KO at 2:59 of the 12th round was something I’ve never seen before and likely never will again. Margarito will bludgeon him. This is the kiss of death for Shane’s career.

Margarito is awesome, unfortunately I doubt he will ever become the type of draw that ODH is/was, at least in the US.

I’m sure there are tons of reasons, but I just don’t see boxing having the appeal to younger generations that it once did, either as participants or viewers. I would say last night was about as big an event as we will see in boxing anytime soon and where I watched it, my friend’s nephew and a couple of his buddies were there. They had just finished with a wrestling tourney and were ready to watch the fight. These guys are around 16, so they are in the demographic I am talking about and are into combat sports, obviously. Let me tell you, I have never seen 4 guys less interested in what was going on in the ring. Just an observation that I picked up on.

You know, HBO and Showtime have been evry selective about what fights they will buy. I am sure that many of the people involved in putting on a card are the same way.

This may have as much to do with when HBO and others agreed to purchase this fight for, as anything.

just a thought.

Even if these two events are hardly in direct competition, thats how people want to paint it. Apparently Golden Boy carrying on like its primarily a boxing promoter is another death knell for Affliction.

It’ll be buried by boxing coverage.