Meltzer: Affliction to partner with Golden Boy

by ghettoiam on Sep 11, 2008 10:56 AM EDT Comment 3 comments

According to the September 11th edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer says that the big Affliction announcement is an affiliation with Golden Boy Promotions. They exact nature of affliation is uncertain, but at present Golden Boy's role will most likely entail the production aspect of the Affliction's events.

Dave Meltzer went on to say that he understands that it will be Affliction's responsiblity to make the cards, sign the contracts and pay the fighters.

Of course the big problem for Affliction that this doesn't seem to address is how do they pay the fighters and find a way to become profitable. It is possible that this deal could involve an additional partnership with HBO that could help address these issues in one of two ways.

A) An HBO television deal, maybe involving a 24/7 type program

B) An HBO stake in the promotion involve some financial underwriting

Dave Meltzer also mentioned that Arlovski stands to make a significant amount more for his second fight with Affliction than his first. As it stood before the "rescheduling" of the show, the payroll for the main event of the Affliction show was 75% of the total payroll of the first show. That number is unbelievable.

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So if GoldenBoy takes on the production end of the promotion – how much money does that save Affliction?

"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007

by lovingmma25 on Sep 11, 2008 11:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Maybe I should rephrase my question...

Is there a basic percentage breakdown of costs associated with production?

"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007

by lovingmma25 on Sep 11, 2008 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I really don’t know how Golden Boy helping out with “production” of the events helps Affliction in any real way – but that is the extent the Meltzer said they were 100% involved.

With how big they’re hyping this announcment, there has to be something more substantial than that limited of a partnership. For this to work they need to use the Golden Boy + HBO machine for promotion, and hopefully unload or subsidize part of the payroll with money they get for putting events on… Which would assume they’re going to be on HBO in some way.

by ghettoiam on Sep 11, 2008 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs