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 …
Promo for Fedor’s instructional DVD. Guess he thinks he knows something about fighting
We’re big fans of Affliction Veep Tom Atencio. Here’s an interview where he discourses on the topics of the day:
Via our pals at The MMA News:
There’s a funny parody of those lame motivational posters you see on office walls:
A SavSci staffer who shall remain nameless received a text message with this picture at the AFFLICTION: BANNED show with the message “Michael Buffer introducing Megadeth playing ‘Holy Wars’ before Fedor fights?”
Real life actually may have been *more* awesome than the picture …
A couple of notes from Josh Gross’ interview with the Russian fighting god Fedor Emelianenko. Fedor is planning to return to the ring in Japan on New Years Eve, but it won’t be against Mirko Cro Cop or as some have suggested the winner of the Josh Barnett/Andrei Arlovski fight at Affliction: Day of …
This was pretty much a foregone conclusion, but a press release sent out by WAMMA makes if official–sort of:
Coming off a pair of explosive performances in their first appearance for Affliction, #4 WAMMA Ranked Heavyweight and former UFC ® Heavyweight Champion Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski (13-5) will take on #3 WAMMA Ranked Heavyweight and former …
That’s the current word on the streets–Fedor is apparently dealing with a lingering hand injury (presumably caused by beating Tim Sylvia’s head repeatedly) and won’t be able to get ready in time for the (tentatively) scheduled 10/11/08 date for the Affliction 2 show. We’re guessing that Fedor is less concerned with the Affliction 2 …
…and this is another good one: former UFC badboy Renato “Babalu” Sobral against former UFC badboy/porn star boy toy Tito “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Ortiz…..that makes the rumored card so far:
Arlovski vs. Fedor for WAMMA heavyweight title
Lindland vs. Belfort for WAMMA(?) middleweight title
Tito vs. Babalu
Also scheduled to appear: Tim Sylvia and another kick …
In an interview with Russian media Aleksander Emelianenko, brother of baddest man on the planet Fedor Emelianenko and really, really bad rapper denied that he was yanked from the Affliction: Banned card due to a positive test for Hepatitis B. He’s claiming it was a simple case of being late with his medicals:
Aleksander Emelianenko …
