Comments on: Andre Arlovski vs Ben Rothwell at Affliction: Banned

By: MMAKansas

MMAKansas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:39:31 +0000

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true – Under socialism I am poor, and under Capitalism I am near wealthy, so I think being with means is better than being without.

By: Andre Arlovski Discusses Affliction and the UFC » MMA HQ - Mixed Martial Arts News and Analysis

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:38:02 +0000

[...] we first confirmed this news over a month ago (even though no one wanted to believe me until Ben Rothwell confirmed the news himself), the new [...]

By: MMAED

MMAED — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:28:26 +0000

Pay per view for which station? Regular cable? Or is it HD Net or something like that?

By: R.J. St.Croix

R.J. St.Croix — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:45:05 +0000

yeah the weight class thing is just me throwing ideas around, but you get what i mean. and your absolutely right about the contract thing and if fighters keep leaving to pursue more flexible contracts at some point the UFC will have no other option then to play ball and at that point the fighters will finally be in control over there own careers. i hope this happens sooner then later because i predict shortly after the UFC goes non-exclusive they will also start to co-promote because if there contenders or champs are fighting somewhere else they might as well get a cut of the gate and pay per view.

By: bvrasp

bvrasp — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:46:32 +0000

I dunno about that RJ, 185 to 250 is a huge range.. I dont think that would work out very well, because alot of good 205 fighters might not be able to make 185, or they might not perform well if they did manage to make the cut, because everyones body is different.

I think a better idea would be for the UFC to sign figbhters to SHORTER contracts, even 1 fights deals.. They always want to lock fighters down and try and own them, so they cant fight anywhere else. I think thats the main problem with the UFC, as we have seen by the amount of good fighters they released this year alone. Its like theyre downsizing the company to keep the payroll down and the profit margin up.

We suffer as fans, they end up releasing all the best fighters because they cost too much and keeping all the TUF guys because they basicaly MADE those guys,they OWN them, and theyre bargain basement fighters as compared to guys like Fedor, crocop etc..

By: R.J. St.Croix

R.J. St.Croix — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:47:23 +0000

yeah you know if i was the guy in charge i would spend the next year chasing good heavy weights around with my wallet in hand. looking at the Affliction card its obvious that there IS good heavies around, but its going to cost you to have them on your roster. or with the new trend of smaller heavy weights they could just drop the light heavy division and call everyone 185lbs. and over heavy weight. its not out of the question for someone like Liddell or Forrest to fight a guy Like Nog or Mir if they dont have to cut weight any more and the smaller LHWs will have to drop to 185lbs. that would help both middle weight and heavy weight divisions by adding some better fighters to the mix. maybe to keep the giant guys from coming in and killing the smaller guys make a superheavy weight division for 250lbs to 300lbs. or something like that

By: bvrasp

bvrasp — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:55:49 +0000

makes alot of sense when you put it that way RJ. Ofcourse the marketing thing about TUF, but mostly the part about putting the HW div on hold.

By: R.J. St.Croix

R.J. St.Croix — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:26 +0000

lets say Nog and Mir fight next month and Nog wins then what? lets say Nog vs. Werdum in Sept/Oct and Kongo in Jan. or you can insert any names in you choose. now if they did it that way i would be cool with it, but im not the average fan buying a pay per view based on the strength of one or two fights. its a lot easier to sell Nog vs. Mir to the masses if they just got finished watching them on TV for eight weeks. the UFC is as successful as they are because they know how to sell the brand, people will wanna see Nog vs. Mir it will just take some convincing (about 8 weeks worth) and the UFC knows by doing it this way they can sell another show to SPIKE TV and get better pay per view buys all in one shot and as an added bonus they can kinda put the heavyweight division on hold for a bit. its a win, win, win for them and i think in the long run it’ll give them enough time to sort out there heavyweight problem a little bit.

By: PATRICK

PATRICK — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:17:28 +0000

hey boys…mir possibly could pull it off..BIG maybe

By: MMAKansas

MMAKansas — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:16:27 +0000

…. Mir is a former champion on the rebound from extraordinary circumstances what with his EXTREME dominance and then the bike accident…

I am neutral to him getting a title shot… I don’t think their are many other HW in the UFC that deserve it more than Frank right now not to mention Nog like BV said doesn’t fight often so its better to have him fight Frank than not at all..