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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Affliction Show to Register 6.5 Bodogs on the Fail-O-Meter
Bust out the Fail-O-Meter. Affliction: "Banned" will air on pay-per-view this Saturday opposite SpikeTV's UFC Fight Night 14, which means that: a) fight fans will have a chance to pay to see Fedor Emelianenko fight Tim Sylvia; b) fight fans will have a chance to see Anderson Silva destroy James Irvin on free TV; and, c) Affliction will make enough money to cover the cost of maybe 90 seconds of the Fedor/Sylvia bout, but everything after those 90 seconds and everything on the rest of the card is going to have to be written off as a financial loss. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Affliction, I'm thrilled they've put together a card of top fighters, and I wish them success. But reality has a way of slapping wanna-be UFCs (with a little money to burn and no viable revenue stream) in the face, and Affliction is going to get slapped pretty damn hard. Prediction: in terms of projected losses, someone will take a big hit on Saturday - and it ain't the UFC.
Labels:
Affliction,
Anderson Silva,
BodogFIGHT,
Fedor Emelianenko,
James Irvin,
Tim Sylvia,
UFC
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I swore I wasn't going to buy the Affliction PPV because we already spend enough on the UFC fights every month. I got sucked in though. I couldn't resist when I saw Andre Arlovski and Babalu were both on the card. Curiosity killed the cat I guess.
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