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 If Affliction and Golden Boy's 'partnership' was a marriage, it'd be one of those creepy marriages where the couple sleeps in separate beds and the dad has a mini-apartment built in the basement to get away from the wife he desperately hates but can't leave because she'd take half his money. Okay, maybe that's not the most fitting analogy in the world, but you get my point: the honeymoon phase is over, if there even was one.We mentioned before that Affliction and Golden Boy were actually COMPETING against each other on the same night. There was speculation a few days ago that Golden Boy might move it's event, but of course that would be POSITIVE for Affliction and therefore it didn't pan out. So to recap: yep, still competing. Go team! There's not a whole bunch to this story - I think we've gotten all the snickers we're gonna get out of this particular tale of idiocy. So most of the sites out there are looking at this and throwing in their two cents on the health of Affliction. Here's Luke Thomas: Admittedly, my first concerns centered on the specifics of the Affliction MMA product and how exclusively it catered to a narrow demographic. Yet, when we factor those concerns with the structural impediments like the potential problem described above, the economic recession, the position between two major UFC PPV cards, lack of fan awareness, brand identity related to MMA, etc. is there anyone who would like to tell me that the UFC really has a competitor on their hands? And that question is extended to some of the veteran MMA journalists who cosigned on that buffoonery. If you think that's too negative, don't worry ... Bloody Elbow also presents a fanboi's impression of things at Affliction: If Affliction is able to refocus their advertising efforts and cut down on the cost of salaries, we could see a very profitable show. It is within reason that this show could break 200,000 buys which would have to be considered a massive success considering it is not being rub by Zuffa. From a matchmaking perspective, Josh Barnett will likely face the Arlovski/Fedor winner. Should Barnett fight on the upcoming card and look impressive, that will only increase the buyrate for Affliction's third show. If that doesn't make sense to you, perhaps you're not smoking enough crack?  That 200k dude is delusional he should go and work for the AFL.  Yeah, I can't believe that got fronted on BE. It was ripped mercilessly by me, others and (interestingly enough) the BE staff.  I saw that. I couldn't believe he said 200,000. This card for sure won't do any better than Banned did.  Don't diss smoking crack until you tried it, and sold your own daughter to sexual slavery for more. Now that's a drug!  The other day I was talking to my brother and his friends about MMA and this made it so clear to me why Affliction or any other future org just won't make it and probably never will ? My brother who is 17 and is a senior in High school is your stero typical MMA casual fan and so are all his friends. The one thing I got from talking to them the casual fan does not fucking care who Affliction has on there card they don't know the fighters like Fedor,Barnett, even if they do they don't care and on top of that some of them don't even know that Affliction runs PPV's at all they think they just make bad ass looking shirts to ride your skate boards in and hope they give them a better chance to get pussy.Hear is something that all the other mma orgs learned Casual MMA fans buy there PPV's on name Recognition alone and that name is surprise surprise the UFC. All my brother and his frineds care about and follow is what is going on in the UFC and there fighters. No matter how many times I have told them about fighters outside the UFC and what a bad ass Fedor is and that there are tons of top fighters outside of the UFC they don't fucking care what so ever. We'll my brother has gotten alot better at lerning and knowing his mma the last year I am proud of that alteast. The bottom line is when a casual fan like my brother and his friends get together on a saturday night to smoke there blunts get drunk and then buy a MMA PPV to watch its the UFC they are always going to buy it has nothing to do with the fighters in my opinion most of the casual fans are buying that name UFC !!!!! The UFC is whats popular with younger kids in there teens and early 20's.its the cool thing to be into and watch. They know nothing else in the MMA world and don't fukcing care to. I don't see how Affliction or any other future org can brake that trend and popularity the UFC has on the younger causal mma crowd like my brother and his friends. The casual mma fan is what sells your PPV's.The hard core fans sell shit !!!! please jake stop bullshiting the good people and making crack seem worse then it really is. when I was doing Coke and Herion I only pawned off and sold all my valubles like TV,Jewelry,DVD,video game system and ran threw my whole bank account in no time thats not so dam bad now-LOL-Hard drugs like Crack,Heroin and Meth are good, addiction is all hype and goverment prop to make the poulation scared and inslaved. People can smoke crack and live a normal life ???? Eeeeeeeeh no. We went to Cincinnati and learned all about crack. And yep, Affliction caters to the hardcore way too much. There's a ton of cheap, profitable fights they could have made to please both crowds, but they're just to up their own asses to figure out what to do
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