I for one am surprised this works, it goes to show the level of people interested in mma, but not interested or able to afford PPV’s!

I wondered when this was going to get mentioned.

What a sad man Dana is. Call it business, call it what you want but I just think its sad. If Affliction are going down then let them fail on their own.

There is nothing the UFC could do to stop me watching Affliction if I had the chance. Its just a shame I can’t vote wth my wallet as I’d buy the Affliction PPV for sure. Maybe next time Atencio and the boys can hook it up so that us European fans can support it as well. Sadly I’ll have to download it instead (and avoid Mania like the plague until Ive watched it first).

While I prefer UFC productions, I’m not going to miss the fight between AA & Fedor. Nice try, Dana!

sweet

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they should of countered with UFC 92 instead of UFC 91

This is great!

I don’t want more than one promotion that is mainstream. It have to be other promotions too where the lower level fighters can fight, but I think it’s great with one world leading one.

I hope Affliction goea bankrupt so all the great fighters can sign with the best promotion, which right now is the UFC.

I want all the best att one place, so we can see who is really is the best in each weight class.

Right now UFC have about 90% of the top 10 in each weight class. I think it would be great if the other 10% also signed with UFC.

The more promotions, the more controversy about who really is the champ.

I just read through that nice pile of steaming cow dung that Dana White called an interview on sportsline and I have some interesting comments.

I can officially say that Dana is the most unprofessional CEO of a billion dollar+ company that I have ever seen.

The whole interview with CBS was totally unprofessional but that’s nothing new and seems to be Dana’s schtick. He’s so enamored with hearing himself cuss, that he can’t even lay off to do a national interview.

I would like to say that Dana is brutally honest, but that isn’t necessarily true. He just has emotional Tourettes. The man speaks the first thing that comes to his mind, regardless of the veracity involved. It seems his business decisions follow the same model.

Dana constantly bad mouths the competition and he seems to have it out for the IFL. First off, the IFL model is great and if they can survive the costs of starting up a league (and thats a big “if”) then they will be providing great entertainment for years to come. Every non-mma fan that I have talked to lately has nothing but praise for the IFL. They might not know the league’s name but that is a marketing issue that can be overcome. Even my grandfather watches it and asks me about “those fighting dudes on TV” whenever he sees me.

Just because Dana comes from a boxing background and not a wrestling background, he thinks his “solo man against the world” model is the only valid system. Teams in combat sports and traditional individual sports have been around for longer than Dana has been alive. Wrestling, gymnastics, 400 meter / 1600 meter relay, and swimming are all examples of individual sports with team components to them. must I go on? Just because the IFL thought of a way to market the concept first, Dana has to bang on them.

Oh, and speaking of business choices, how about the biggest slice-n-dice job in the short history of MMA?

Q: I know it’s easy to second guess, but with Pride’s demise do you feel that in hindsight Zuffa made some miscalculations when it came to due diligence that led up to the acquisition?

DW: No. No, not at all. I knew I wanted that library bad. It was what I wanted. So no, we didn’t miscalculate anything except the whole deal was a nightmare. Getting that deal done was a nightmare. We didn’t miscalculate anything. We knew we wanted it and we got it.

Q: With it proving to be a nightmare, if you guys knew then what you know now, would you still go through with it?

DW: Yes.

Q: Because you felt with the library that it was worth it?

DW: To me it was. To me, personally, I wanted that library.
Since when does somebody pursue a HUGE problematic business acquisition because of a personal desire for a tape library? Dana is too shrewd a business man for such a response. For all his faults, he isn’t dumb. His cryptic answer smells of back pedaling. All the reliable sources out there at the time of the acquisition were stating that the UFC did no due diligence until AFTER there was a verbal agreement for the PRIDE purchase.

They probably knew that there were problems, just not how bad they were. With all his vaunted honesty, why can’t he just come right out and admit that he bought PRIDE to eliminate the competition, disallow others from resurrecting the giant, and had no intentions of actually running it as a separate entity.

Dana is for one thing and one thing only. Lining the Fertitta brothers pockets. In a capitalistic world, he has that right but don’t expect us to believe that your sole cause in life is to further MMA. The one beneficial thing that the Zuffa era of the UFC has been sanctioning in a lot of states. The only reason Dana has sought sanctioning in each state is so that he can run his PPV’s in any venue he wants across the country.

Where is health insurance for your fighters?

What “feeder” and grassroots organizations are you supporting with Zuffa money to further the MMA cause past the next PPV?

What alliances have you established with other organizations for the betterment of the sport?

What youth outreach programs have you supported in an effort to educate younger people about the benefits of MMA and martial arts in general?

What martial arts / combat sports ideal have you touted to the public as being a life-long commitment? (discipline, honor, comraderie, restraint, pliability, humility, self-assurance)

Instead he touts guys with personal issues, who break the rules, and espouse nothing from the discipline of martial arts, as being “nice guys” and “I’d let them back in spite of their flagrant violations of sportsmanship and honor…”. He “gets” the thug element in the fight game and ignores the high road of discipline and honor. Real good message there Dana. Keep up the good work. You do us all proud in the MMA community.

I hope the event is good for Affliction, I like seeing some decent competition with the UFC. I like watching the UFC, but also Strikeforce, HDNet fights (always have a few good fights), Sengoku and especially DREAM. If Affliction did go bust, I’d want their fighters to go to DREAM. There’s something about Japanese MMA shows, PRIDE was great and DREAM is near there, but is lacking in some weight divisions (light-heavyweight, heavyweight, welterweight). DREAM’s lightweight division is simply stacked, Aoki, Hansen, Ishida, Uno, Calvancante, Alvarez, Kawajiri, etc. Its too bad Kid Yammamoto wont be in their featherweight grand prix, he’s an awesome fighter.

I am a business owner and I have zero issues with Dana. All the haters in here and the Pride nut huggers are laughable, the bottom line is Dana White has made its owners massive amounts of money. Isn’t that what it’s all about? I’m not a Dana fanboy who thinks he’s untouchable or that he’s always right, but he is a likable guy who makes alot of right choices. If he misses some, that’s ok too. But please, get off his back already. Good Lord. GoRandy, that is a nice post and I’m not zeroing in on your specifically, just an FYI. You made a nice post and explained your position, I respect that.

sorry ufc, but i’ll be getting the affliction ppv, not watching a rerun of a mostly crappy card.

ffffffeeeeeeeddddddooooooooorrrrrrrr!!!!

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does that really work?

how do u watch it ounce your on the site?

ill buy affliction just due to the fact i wanna see another mma organization besides ufc suceed, better for the sport. not to mention vitor, arlovski, fedor,barnett, soko babalu and lil nog on it. some pretty damn good fighters

The biggest event of 2008 was ufc 92!

Holla below if u agree

Sick card…HOLLA :>

Here’s my prediction: If Fedor wins this organization grows if Fedor loses this group will fall in the same way Kimbo’s loss brought down his. I’m buying to support my local boy Dan Lauzon and to keep the UFC honest. The bonus is I get to see Fedor on my 60 inch live against some real competition. I can’t wait.

I’m a hardcore Fedor fan so I will be watching the Affliction show
side note wasn’t Affliction “Banned” on July 19th opposite Fight Night 14

where could i watch the affliction card on the internet?