Although January 24 is roughly two months away, Affliction nearly has their event roster complete; below is the tentative fight card for Affliction: Day of Reckoning, set for January 24, 2009 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA*:
Main Card:
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski
Josh Barnett vs. TBA
Matt Lindland vs. Renato Sobral
Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon
Vitor Belfort [...]
With the addition of Andrei Arlovski and Fedor Emelianenko, the fight card for Affliction: Day Of Reckoning is slowly taking shape; the event is set to take place on January 19, 2009 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA and will be on pay-per-view and to a lesser degree on HDNet. Below is the tentative [...]
11 bouts round out the card for Affliction: Day Of Reckoning, set to take place on October 11 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV; below is the final lineup for the event:
Pay-per-view:
Josh Barnett vs. Andrei Arlovski
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
Matt Lindland vs. Trevor Prangley
Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Louzon
Pedro Rizzo vs. [...]
Middleweight Matt Lindland, due to an injury to his original opponent Vitor Belfort, had to wait a spell to see who his next opponent would be; Lindland will not have to wait anymore as MMAjunkie.com reports that Lindland will face Trevor Prangley at the Affliction: Day of Reckoning event.
Prangley, a veteran of the UFC, Strikeforce and [...]
Vitor Belfort, originally scheduled to face Matt Lindland at the Affliction: Day Of Reckoning show on October 11, has been forced off the fight card due to a hand injury, as reported by MMA Weekly and confirmed by Affliction vice president Tom Atencio, with Atencio adding,
“Vitor is out, I spoke with him I think yesterday [...]
Below is the tentative card for Affliction: Day Of Reckoning, which is set to take place on October 11 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV*:
Main Card
Josh Barnett vs. Andrei Arlovski (official)
Matt Lindland vs. Vitor Belfort (official)
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (official)
Ben Rothwell vs. Pedro Rizzo (official)
Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon [...]
There’s several items of interest in today’s edition of MMA News And Notes; many thanks to the folks at Sherdog for the info. We’ll start with…
Randy Couture is surprised about the Texas ruling, which essentially is this: the Dallas County Fifth Court of Appeals ruled against a separate court’s decision back in May 2008 to [...]
One of the bigger bouts at the second Affliction show on October 11 could be in trouble as MMA Junkie is reporting that the fight between Vitor Belfort and Matt Lindland could be scratched; specifically, a source close to Belfort has said that the middleweight fighter has been slowed by a lingering hand injury. Belfort [...]
Below are the Octagon Buzz MMA rankings for the middleweight division:
Anderson Silva
Patrick Cote
Robbie Lawler
Rich Franklin
Yushin Okami
Matt Lindland
Melvin Manhoef
Denis Kang
Paulo Filho
Chris Leben
Below are the salaries earned by the fighters on the Affliction: Banned card which took place on Saturday; the information was provided by the California State Athletic Commission**:
Fedor Emelianenko: $300,000 (no win bonus)
Tim Sylvia: $800,000
Andrei Arlovski: $750,000 (includes $250,000 win bonus)
Ben Rothwell: $250,000
Josh Barnett: $300,000 (no win bonus)
Pedro Rizzo: $70,000
Mark Hominick: $10,000 (includes $5,000 win [...]
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