Depends on whether he’s refering to the ticket sales for Affliction or Affection.

Kidding, of course.

Whats Atencio’s email address. If hes gonna paper the place it might as well be actual MMA fans in the seats.

Were in the exact same boat (except I’m coming from L.A.), I have all my affairs ready to attend 94 and anything I can get from Affliction is just a bonus.

I’m just basing the scalper thing on the amount of tickets that are available on sites like Ebay and Stubhub.

I lol’d.

I think you got it right for Yvel regardless what happens to Affliction haha.

Its a joke I think Arlovski himself has done more promoting for Afflictions2nd show with his 360 series then Affliction has all together.

That sums it up right there.

Affliction wasn’t that company to start with, they just weren’t putting on enough shows to keep all their fighters gainfully employeed anyway. Affliction going away would really affect a small number of very high paid fighters but the real “second tier” company has been Strikeforce not Affliction. Lets face it we are talking about an organization that has had one event, cancelled one event and had like a dozen press conferences in it’s history, they were doing more talking than actually keeping fighters working.

Yep, monopoly in sports automatically equals fucked fans and fighters. Just ask every major sports league in America.

Affliction isn’t doing any of that stuff anyway, they aren’t competition for the UFC at all, they have put one one event, canceled one event and hopefully will get out a second one before they crash. Heck the only real thorn in the UFC’s side here is that they managed to sign Arlovski away. If they flop(and that has looked like a real possibility since day one) then there won’t be a monopoly in MMA, heck they won’t even leave that big of a hole in the industry because by and large they never did much of anything but talk a big game(well it might hurt the press conference industry).

Heck even in the sense of what Affliction made the UFC do to improve their product all we can really point to is they got the UFC to give us Anderson Silva vs James Irvin in a utterly meaningless fight outside of Silva’s weight class and a stinker of a Brandon Vera fight for free, yea thanks for that Affliction. For the most part when the UFC does counter program it’s with a re-run and the quality of the fights we have been seeing from them has more to do with them signing good fighters in good fights instead of competition giving those fighters alternative places to fight. The UFC’s competition pushing them to put out a better product isn’t the other orgs it’s the fact that they are fighting every single other thing out there for the time and money of their target demographic, it is video games and TV series and other sporting events and spending that $50 on a date instead of a PPV not MMA orgs the vast majority of the viewing audience doesn’t even know exist and many of the ones that do don’t care about anyway.

The big fallacy in your thinking here is that for some reason fans should support any fly by night org that gets tossed our way in the name of competition but crappy companies burning though millions looking bad until they can’t support themselves anymore do more damage to the sport long term than a MMA monopoly ever would. What is needed isn’t any old crap pretending to be competition it is honest quality mma promotion with a business plan that allows it to make money and last for longer than 2 years. You know what really gets me? It’s when so called MMA fans support sub-par organizations in the name of competition instead of demanding quality organizations giving us quality entertainment. If an org wants my support as a fan all they have to do is two things, give me a good product to watch on a regular basis and not let me down by folding a year or two down the road. Quality and stability are things fans should be demanding.

What kills me is that they obviously spent money on all those “Fedor will Return” ads on CBS and they might of gotten some buzz going if they had actually followed through and let people know when and where Fedor was returning to. I’m not on the West Coast so I can’t go to the show regardless but if it wasn’t for the fact that I spend so much time on internet MMA sites I wouldn’t of even known they had a show coming up at all. Compare that to the way the UFC is hammering away at letting people know about Penn vs GSP and they are still weeks out and it becomes obvious why Affliction is so close to the edge. It’s a darn good card but the company is blowing it with their own ineptness at getting the word out. Hell even if they do get attendence way up I don’t see how they are going to hit the PPV sales numbers they are going to need because they just haven’t done anything to let people know there is a show.