Affliction: Banned :: 7/19, Anaheim [R]

[Bison1997]

So yeah, you may have heard this guy mentioned in this fine forum once or twice....Fedor Emelianenko.

In Pride, he was pretty much the baddest man on the planet (Go look up his fight against Kevin Randleman), but Pride is gone for good. Now, he's in America. Will he be the same?

LIVE MATCHES (PPV)
* Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia
* Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell
* Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
* Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Nascimento
* Renato "Babalu" Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead

LIVE MATCHES (FSN)
* Paul Buentello vs. Aleksander Emelianenko
* Vitor Belfort vs. Terry Martin

TAPED MATCHES
* Edwin Dewees vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
* Ray Lazama vs. Justin Levens
* J.J. Ambrose vs. Mike Pyle
* Mark Hominick vs. Savant Young

-- I hate watching Tim Sylvia fight. He sucks the life out of every match he's in.

-- Quite the couple of heavyweight names they have here. Does Arlovski still have it? Can Josh Barnett live up to his rep? Can Paul Buentello not suck?

-- Will the FSN matches cooperate and be over with by the time the PPV is supposed to start?

-- Will anyone buy this PPV with this little piece of counterprogramming on Basic Cable (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=719457)?

[mintone]

This is a fantastic card.


If you enjoy the HW division. I generally don't. If I wasn't moving this week and and money wasn't so tight because of it I might buy this just to see Fedor fight a credible opponent.

The rest of the card is well... It has quite a few names but lets look at a few

Lil' Nog- over rated.
Ben Rothwell- Would be a gatekeeper in the UFC's shallow HW div.
Pedro Rizzo- Wasn't his career as a relevent fighter over like 5 fights ago?
Edwin Dewees- Solid but unspectacular
Andre Arlovski- Hasn't shown much lately

So yeah It could be good but definately not must see PPV.

[BigGuy]

Got to tape both shows tommorow should be a lot of fun.

[xisco7]

I'll be watching UFN 14 but afflction will be on my mind.

You guys should check out DREAM 5 over in Japan on monday as well. It's finally down to the lightweight finals.

[Robdog]

Vitor "The Phenom" Belfort is back!!!!
http://www.sherdog.com/thumbnail_crop.php?image=http://www.cdn.sherdog.com/_images/pictures/33/32659.jpg&width_size=600

[BigGuy]

If you have not seen the fight yet stop reading this post















Fedore was an animal last night. Before the fight started in his training room I was struck by Fedores hand speed. He is real fast and has power in those fast hands.

I was also struck with the speed he flipped Syvia pver before he chocked him out.

[mintone]

Fedor not only dominated a "credible" opponent he destroyed a top 5 opponent. Yes folks he is that good.


It was nice to see the 2 best fighters on the planet fight in the same night. The only problem was that both fights in total lasted less than 2 minutes!

[xisco7]

Fedor gave us a Pride FC moment and mauled Sylvia in less than a minute. So its official, Affliction was badass.

Arlovski looked better than ever and I think they should throw him at Fedor next.

Vitor knocked Martin out stupid, which is what ppl paid to see. So, I'd say bring on more Affliction shows.

Just a small detail, I did not enjoy Michael Buffer as an MMA announcer.

[xisco7]

Holy...this is a camcorder vid of the Fedor fight with really good zoom/quality. This really demonstrates the domination of Fedor best...

http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Fedor_Emelianenko_vs_Tim_Sylvia_Spectator_Cam_Footage?vid=10000902&tid=100

[DCUnitedRichmond]

another site to see the fight is mmalinker.com