Comments on: Fedor vs. Sylvia: Complete breakdown of Affliction: Banned

By: Tomholo

Tomholo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:54:48 +0000

Watched the post fight interview with Silvia. He was very humble. I guess he had to be, he got hit by a tank. Did you see that left straight from Fedor!?!? I believe that was the punch that Silvia referenced as ‘being hit harder than he has ever been hit before’. MY head hurt when I saw that punch!

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By: Jackyl

Jackyl — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:38:05 +0000

Tim Sylvia post fight interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J13JFn3HktY

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By: Tomholo

Tomholo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:32:11 +0000

I have to agree with the doc here. I agree with probably most everything said in the article. Good piece actually. Did notice a slant though. Back handed compliment seemed like a correct analysis. Almost as if you were saying, ‘it was great, but it’s no UFC’. Production wise, it wasn’t UFC. They’ll get better. I think your writing and synopsis of the event was right on. Like you said, the production problems are nothing that couldn’t be fixed with experience. Enjoyed. Thanks.

Oh, and I will DEFINATELY either buy or go somewhere that has the NEXT AFFLICTION EVENT! They have some SERIOUS potential!!!

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By: lamp

lamp — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:58:53 +0000

for there first show I thought it was good…..first things first, FIRE the commentators I don’t know how anyone else felt but it sure made me miss Rogan and Goldberg. Not only did the mispronounce names, the didn’t even know who Fedor fought last. Anyone catch when they said “competed in the US olympics”,come on. This is not a place for Frank Trigg to trash talk the competitors this is the time to upsell affliction not yourself.As far as megadeath is concerned I thought it was a welcomed change I would rather see or hear that than be forced to rewatch the same crap ufc has been shoving down your throat all week not to mention all their sponser commercials and previews. All in all it can only get better….. well we hope.

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By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:38:21 +0000

War Fedor.. the last emperor is raining down the destruction. I cant wait to see who he fights next.

It was great to see the good older fighters, though I was hoping for better fights. Arlovski looked great.

I did go to UFC to watch Anderson Silva’s domination over Irwin, but that was the only one I was itching to see.

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By: romano

romano — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:30:49 +0000

sam…there will never be justification for your site having ranked couture above fedor…never…you’re a smart mark wrestling fan noob

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By: Sam Caplan

Sam Caplan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:41:04 +0000

Sylvia and Rothwell fought once before Rothwell moved to Iowa and joined MFS. They will never fight. MFS fighters training out of Champions gym in Bettendorf do not fight each other.

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By: Skwirrl

Skwirrl — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:29:07 +0000

For all the haters (including u in this case Sam) Wah wah wah…

Megadeth was alright but I think they should have stuck in a fight before they played. Aside from that and the fact that Alex wasn’t able to compete it was pretty well done.

And the lineup for headliners for Affliction 2 is SIMPLE. Fedor vs Couture Arlovski vs Barnett Sylvia vs Rothwell (if Monte Cox allows it) If not they can find another fighter for each. But the clear cut first two are Fedor/Couture and Barnett/Arlovski with the winners facing each other. (which means Fedor vs winner of Barnett Arlovski)

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By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:20:38 +0000

It was a thing of beauty, was it not.

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By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:14:20 +0000

just saw the Arlovski fight…

HOLY CRAP.

NOW THAT’S… THE PITBULL…

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By: doubleA-ron

doubleA-ron — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:41:51 +0000

If u didn’t watch it how can u comment or know everything that happened is all i am saying. no big deal

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By: MMA SKOOL™

MMA SKOOL™ — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:36:00 +0000

What’s wrong with “commenting on fights that u switch over to UFN and don’t get to watch”?

I also switched over to UFN during those same fights because they were boring as hell.

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By: Rich S.

Rich S. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:25:41 +0000

#41,
you can’t be serious..

dude, if you hugged Sylvia’s nuts any harder, he’d have to “nurse” those before his next fight, and you’d have another excuse..

that’s the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard..

Fedor BEASTED someone you like.. so you say that??

wow..

if they fought again i bet Fedor would beat Sylvia faster.. either that, or it’d go on a little longer, but it’d end in brutal KO..

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By: doubleA-ron

doubleA-ron — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:10:33 +0000

I agree in most part w/ this article. One thing that puzzles me is commenting on fights that u switched over to UFN and didn’t get to watch.

focusing on Fedor vs. Couture instead of Fedor vs. Arlovski is a huge mistake. This comment i totally agree with. Fedor vs Couture would be worthless and unneeded. It would be a step back for fedor.

I haven’t heard too many comments abot the announcers- I thought they did a terrible job. trigg rambles on too much, glazer makes stupid jokes and uses the same lines, and Big John did well when he got a chance to get his word in

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By: roscoe

roscoe — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:59:18 +0000

re #36:
“Frank Trigg is a big baby too. Just because St. Pierre owned him, he’s gotta sit there and tell the world how much better he thinks Fedor is compared to Silva and GSP pound-for-pound.”

I thought this was actually fairly selfless and intelligent. If I had been beaten by someone I would like to think that person was the best in the world, not that there is someone else out there even better.

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By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:00:38 +0000

goldi cleans rogans buttcrack with his tounge right after he is done swallowing dana whites load
and rogan sits there reapeating himself over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
and it really makes me not like him and i want to like him he is funny and a heavy supporter of the smoking community!!!!

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By: ACK!

ACK! — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:53:22 +0000

I thought the Affliction show was excellent. Even the fights that Sam didn’t like, were pretty solid in my opinion. Lindland vs. Negao was slow at times, but Negao took a beating and kept battling. Seeing Babalu back in form was great. And the Hominick vs. Young fight was really good I thought. An impressive win for Hominick as he simply outclassed Young.

I know there were some production issues, but nothing that detracted from the show. Also, I thought the announcing team was solid-a great change of pace from Rogan and his yes-man.

Overall it was a great show and easily among the year’s best.

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:51:01 +0000

For Affliction’s first time MMA event, I felt the show was pretty good. Was the show long? Yes, it was, but with this being the 1st show and with the amount of celebrities that showed up and with the amount of future potential sponsors present, there was no way possible that the event was going to go at a faster pace.

Prior to the Fedor/Sylvia fight, I thought of the Couture/Sylvia flight where Randy made his return to the UFC and beat Sylvia just by simple speed and keeping him on the ground and knew that if Fedor did the same, Sylvia would lose again…and what happened, Fedor exploded with speed, put Sylvia on the ground and kept him there and won.

And in regards to the future of Affliction fighting, Affliction necessarily won’t need fight cards full of big names to survive, it could simply go the same route as Pride Fighting or if Dana White keeps having issues with some of the fighters that he is having probs with, Affliction will have no problem in putting together exciting future events

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:47:57 +0000

I enjoyed the fights last night from Affliction for the most part, no complaints there from me at all.

The production though definitely needs some work, which is not surprising at all. For whatever reason the audio for the broadcast(at least here in Time Warner land) was very, very low. I had to crank the tv audio to hear the announcers and the crowd was hardily even audible. Megadeath to open the show was fine, the rest of the time terrible, but it gave me a chance to watch the UFN at the same time. Please no more bands unless its just for the opening. As Sam said, and I agree, the time it took to get each fighter to the ring and then to fight was way to long, and again gave me plenty of time to switch to Spike.

And that rind was HUGE as well, which didn’t bother me for the fights but it seemed like our camera shots were far away.

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By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:45:00 +0000

there is just as much down time in a ufc event
one they only broadcast five fights on average in the ufc and fill the rest with self promotion or sponsors then go back and play prelim bouts
affliction stayed on real time the whole show so your gunna have slow downs
havn’t any of you watched fights from japan over the years this is what happens but you end up getting more fights
see i think if you order a card you should get all the fights prelims and all

and if SAM didn’t complitly watch all fights on both events then write his article that is weak this is your website thats your job dvr them and watch the ones you missed flippin back to that awful ufc night

all i want is the best fighters to fight and the ufc is not trying to make that happen

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