Archive for 'Affliction'
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Affliction will be the primary sponsor of Mike Skinner’s #00 car at the 8/31 Pepsi 500 race in Southern California:
Affliction Entertainment and Michael Waltrip Racing have teamed up to race for the checkered flag in the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Southern California. This year’s Sprint Cup Series race at the two-mile D-shaped …
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Actually that should be “help raise funds for liver transplant”. We here at SAVSCI have the utmost respect for fighters, but we’d still prefer a doctor to perform liver transplants. We’re old fashioned that way.
Anyway, in today’s installment of “MMA fighters are bad role models” a number of them–including one of the sport’s …
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
EliteXC’s Antonio Silva and Affliction’s Edwin Dewees are the “guilty parties” announced yesterday by the CSAC:
The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) has informed FightTicker.com that EliteXC heavyweight champ Antonio Silva tested positive for Boldenone at EliteXC’s “Unfinished Business” event on July 26.
According to the email sent to FightTicker.com by the CSAC:
Reigning Elite XC World Heavyweight …
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
MMA Frenzy is reporting that the California State Athletic Commission will announce that one fighter each at the Stockton EliteXC card and the Affliction: Banned event tested positive for a banned subject. Not sure why the CSAC just didn’t announce who it was, but they’ve exhibited some curious behavior in the past and given …
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
The excellent heavy metal news site METAL UNDERGROUND is confirming our earlier report that OZZY OSBOURNE will be the musical guest at Affliction: Day of Reckoning:
Heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne has been confirmed to perform at the Mixed Martial Arts event, Affliction: Day Of Reckoning. The event will be held in Las Vegas on October …
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s Ozzy with Black Sabbath doing “Iron Man” in a fanshot video from 2007:
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s some more recent vintage Ozzy with Zak Wilde on guitar (who’ll likely be playing guitar at the Affliction show) performing the Black Sabbath classic ‘Paranoid’:
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s Ozzy and Randy Rhodes again with “Mr. Crowley”
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Here’s some vintage Ozzy and a performance of a song that we’ll almost guarantee he’ll play at Affliction: Day of Reckoning–here’s “The Prince of Darkness” along with the late, great Randy Rhodes on guitar doing “Crazy Train”
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