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Is Shane Mosley vs. Sergio Mora Just Another Sign of Boxing's Fall?
Here's how Bad Left Hook opens their always excellent live coverage of tonight's boxing PPV: For the many who won't be plunking down their hard-earned coin on tonight's marginal and rightly-criticized HBO pay-per-view card headlined by Shane Mosley taking on Sergio Mora, fear not! You can still...
Andrei Arlovski Signs With Golden Boy Promotions
According to Gary Herman Andrei Arlovski has signed with Golden Boy Promotions: Andrei Arlovski has signed an agreement with Golden Boy Promotions. Full details of the deal are not known at this time, but Arlovski had been rumored to enter the boxing world since early in 2008. Recently, trainer...
Affliction Can't Win For Losing Part 2
Remember when I wrote about Affliction going up against the Mosley/Margarito fight, and all of the other UFC/WEC related events? Well things just got even more interesting on Golden Boy's side of things. MMAFanhouse has a pretty interesting quote from Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer: "I don't...
My Thoughts On Affliction Partnering With Golden Boy
Desperation. I don't see any positives in this partnership for Affliction except cutting costs. Otherwise all it does is delay the inevitable in my personal opinion. There's no way they can compete with the UFC while doing hybrid events consisting of boxing and MMA. Allow me to explain... ...
Golden Boy Schedules January 24th Show for Los Angeles
Is the partnership between GBP and Affliction the worst partnership ever? Steve Cofield reports that Margarito-Mosley, which will air on January 24th opposite Affliction, will take place at Staples Center. Affliction II is on January 24th at the Honda Center in Anaheim. This essentially kills...
Cooperation or Competition Between Affliction and Golden Boy Promotions?
A few months ago, Affliction announced its deal with Golden Boy Promotions and crowed that this would be a major challenge to the UFC. A few weeks ago, we heard that it would no longer be a mixed show, and instead would be a pure MMA show. Now it appears that Golden Boy is putting a boxing show...
Affliction January Show: MMA Only
The first offering from Affliction and Goldenboy Promotions in January will be a MMA only card: Said Atencio, the partnership, which calls for quarterly events next year, is still a work in progress, though Golden Boy will heavily influence television and in-arena production. It sounds like...
HBO: No Affliction Here
MMA Rated has the scoop: ...we have spoken to HBO's Director of Media Relations, Kevin Flaherty, and he had this to say about HBO's involvement with Affliction or any other mixed martial arts promotions:"HBO is not in discussions with any MMA organization presently. Our sports programming plate...
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