Barnett replaced because Affliction "couldn't get a hold of him"
Submitted by fightlinker on September 26, 2008 - 1:24pm
More details coming out regarding the whole Affliction / EliteXC partnership!
-Roy Nelson only found out a few hours before we did that he was fighting Andrei Arlovski:
"Talk about short notice," said Nelson, who was originally slated to face Paul Buentello on Affliction's Oct. 11 offering before the event was postponed. "All I can say is, that's the fight game. You never know what can happen."
-From Tom Atencio's mouth on why it's Roy and not Josh:
"He was offered the fight," Atencio said. "I couldn't get a hold of him. He was out of the country and it was just how it worked out that it ended up being Roy Nelson and Arlovski. It's a good matchup either way, but now it makes it so that the winner of this fight is in contention to fight Fedor [Emelianenko]."
Damn, Josh. I know roaming charges are a bitch, but apparently that's one missed call that just cost you a few hundred thousand dollars! Whoops!
-Here's Tom Atencio saying the event will be in January:
"The January show is a guarantee," said Affliction VP Tom Atencio.
-Here Tom Atencio saying it may not be in January
"we're not even confirmed for January, so right now we're looking at the first quarter of 2009 -- and that's going to be with Golden Boy,"
Someone needs to tell Atencio he needs to pay attencio to the detailios, or he ends up looking like a retardio. I wouldn't be so harsh on him regarding the date thing, but since Fedor's participation is kinda sorta important and there's that whole Fedor fighting in Japan shit brewing ... yeah. You guys understand, right? I'm not flying off the handle over something stupid like Bill Gates shirts again, am I?
October 3, 2008 - 2:00pm
#2
[...] getting the shit end of the poostick in regards to the whole Affliction/EliteXC/Arlovski/Nelson situation, you’d think he’d be extra eager to make sure he gets a shot at Fedor before 1001 stupid [...]
October 8, 2008 - 8:01pm
#3
[...] and Arlovski that Nelson would be used instead of Barnett, and they just waited for Barnett to disappear in Japan before announcing the [...]
January 14, 2009 - 12:45pm
#4
[...] Yvel story was a complete fabrication and looking back I think it’s safe to say he lied about why Josh Barnett was replaced with Roy Nelson at EliteXC [...]
[...] article saying one thing, and Michael D. Cohen in the next completely contradicting him. Hell, even Atencio contradicts himself half the time. I would imagine this happens because both have full-time jobs outside of running this promotion. [...]