Jul 25

Affliction Press Release on Official UFC Deal

Posted in: Affliction, UFC by: Luke Hinds

Well in case you may have thought it April the 1st here is the official press release:

SEAL BEACH, Calif., July 24, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Zuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship “UFC” organization and Affliction Holdings, LLC announced today they have agreed to a collaboration that will benefit the sport of Mixed Martial Arts and ultimately the sport’s growing fan base.

The collaboration ensures commitments by UFC and Affliction for Mixed Martial Arts to continue to be recognized as a mainstream sport.

“We are excited about the return of Affliction to the UFC and look forward to seeing our fighters once again walk into the Octagon wearing the Affliction brands. Affliction is an innovator of mixing fashion with this sport and we are looking forward to working together to promote the sport.” Dana White, President of UFC.

“Our brand is synonymous with the ‘Live Fast’ approach to life and UFC is the perfect venue for us to market our brand. We have come to an agreement with the UFC which we feel will be the best for the sport and will help the UFC continue delivering the highest caliber of fights.” Eric Foss, Co-Founder of Affliction.

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Jul 24

Affliction are the new UFC Sponsors.

Posted in: Affliction, UFC by: Luke Hinds

Well its been whirl wind few days with first off Barnett having his license to fight revoked for a positive test result for steriods. Then we had the speculation over who was to replace him against Fedor which seemed to fall to Vitor Belfort amongst some other wild specualtions such as Tank Abbott and Don Frye.

Next up Affliction released the information that they were going to cancel the whole event and now they are leaving the promotional Business and will become official Sponsors of the UFC.

God only knows what the next twelve hours hold, but already the rumors are starting around Emelianenko signing to the UFC – but hey, keep in mind this is rumor amongst many so don’t go linking back to us!

As always when a promoter goes down you have to feel for the fighters here. These guys train so hard and put so much preparation time in only to be told its all over and go home.

Ian Dean of  Cage Warriors had to break the news to Rob Broughton who was  due to fight Jesse Gibbs and Paul Daley has posted on facebook that his fight has been canceled due to his visa not being sorted? So let’s hope someone fills him in ASAP.

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