Report: Matyushenko vs. Nogueira likely for Affliction: Day of Reckoning
Sherdog is reporting that a rematch between Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and two time collegiate national champion wrestler and former IFL light heavyweight champion Vladimir Matyushenko is likely to be booked for Affliction’s upcoming October 11 show.
Matyushenko defeated Nogueira in Japan in 2002 via unanimous decision and is currently riding an eight fight winning streak. Matyushenko dominated competition inside the IFL, working his way into the top fifteen light heavyweights in the world. His last victory came against Jamal Patterson in April at an IFL event.
Nogueira most recently defeated Edwin Dewees at Affliction: Banned last month in dominating fashion, ending the fight via TKO in the first round. Nogueira looked every bit the part of a top ten light heavyweight during the victory.
This should be a very interesting fight as both of these guys are at the top of their game right now. Matyushenko’s wrestling has always been his strong point while Nogueira’s jiu-jitsu and boxing are his strong points, particularly his jiu jitsu. It won’t be a matter of if this fight hits the ground, but a matter of when. And when things do go there, expect it to get very interesting. Excellent matchmaking by Affliction and a very solid undercard bout to go along with the main attraction of Andrei Arlovski vs. Josh Barnett.
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Also seeing that mmajunkie is reporting Roy Nelson will be fighting Jay White on this card as well now. Guess the UFC either didn’t have interest in these guys or didn’t want to pay the price Affliction was willing to for them, as the Zuffa seems to be signing up most of the former IFL guys.
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this is great i love it as a fan
they are just putting together great fights and that is one thing the ufc doesn’t do.
there are so many great matchups out there that every card can be loaded and even in the ufc alone they could have much better cards from top to bottom
great for the fans great for the sport
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I guarantee you that Affliction is making so called great fights because of lack of depth. It’s easy to bash Ufc for building drama and fighters. They wish they had that kind of depth. Bringing a fighter along and letting him develop is what has made the Ufc top dog in MMA. TUF is an excellent example of this and you can look no further than the UFc light heavyweight champ. Fighter development is what makes the Ufc stand above the competition and it has been a successful formula.
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Warcry is on the right War path….
Affliction lost a bundle on their first PPV. Treating the fighters “well” as they say is a prescription for corporate loses. Affliction was in a do or die situation, rejected by the UFC just like most of their fighters, I really don’t blame them for sponsoring their own shows… in fact I applaud the effort and initiative. What I do attack is their hypocrisy.
Hey Don King came out of nowhere to promote the biggest fight of all time…at the time, so who am i to say Affliction can’t succeed? What bristles me is their ‘it’s for for MMA, for the people, for the fighters’ rhetoric which is OK to say, but expect to be vetted, expect to be called out for it… funny thing is…. people in this world have such short memories that if you keep telling them something long enough and enough times, they start to believe… it even if its not true.
Affliction got greedy, got kicked out, got backed in a corner, got friggin ugly T-shirts that will most definitely stop selling when people wake the f up and realize how ugly (and expensive) they are, got bogus belts, got their asses handed to them financially on their first PPV and got Fedor…. That’s a whole lot of negatives and only 1 positive. Look Fedor is without a doubt the best HW and a Top 2 P4P in the World but the dude fought donuts for 3 years and he fights #5 in the world and wins his fight and now he’s world champ????? WTF? NO, he’s Number 5 with a bullet!!! …PEOPLE MUST TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS SHIT OR ITS GONNA GET UGLY IN 5 YEARS!!!!
The UFC is a League….like MLB, ATP, NFL, PGA (even though there is an equal European League in Golf)… it has a feeder system, it takes in free agents and it WILL have collective bargaining system/revenue sharing/or something much stronger for the fighters… give it a bit of time, the damn thing is still an infant… a fat infant but you still can’t even legally sanction MMA fights in Mass or NY for God’s sake!
Fighter’s complain, but so do NBA and MLB and NFL stars (Manny Ramirez was making 20 mil and it wasn’t enough to make him happy) and how much do they make? Complaint’s are gonna happen, don’t believe all the hype.
Affliction’s model for MMA success is toilet bowl material. Overpay ‘has been’ fighters and Fedor and then try to make it back on jacked up T-shirt sales of Slayer and Metallica ripoff styles from 1982. That sucks and people should say so.
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once again i understand all your points but all i want to see is the best fights i don’t care who is making money or losing money
i would watch the best fights if they were put on by my grama in her backyard
and fuck all that grooming and brining fighters along i understand that is how you build an organizations fight roster but there is a time to have these guys fight and its not when im payin $55 for a ppv
a lot of these tuf guys are just boobs anyways
forest was well on his way before the ufc
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If you want the best fights and the continued maturation of the sport than you should want to see these orgs develop long term. Affliction needs a youth movement and they need it like yesterday. You have to agree that they cannot continue at this pace. I wish them the best because it pushes the Ufc and it makes the sport as whole better
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you are right you are dead on about that
i guess my whole is is that the ufc thinks they are a lot tighter then they are (dana white) and they really fuck us as fans i mean come on
if you count the heath lesner fight then there are only three good fights on paper goin into this card
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The UFC is not screwing anyone. People would not continue to buy for the PPVs if that happened consistently. The UFC has a business model for consistent success where all others have failed. And Affliction is trying to grab market share by promoting UFC rejects, placing themselves as almight ‘do-gooders” for the fighters and peddling ugly Tshirts to try and thuis far fail to even breakeven.
The UFC fights are not crap. It’s rare when the main event bouts win any of the bonus awards that go to the best technical and entertaining bouts
The NBA went thru many down years of complaints but do we want a second pro league…shit, who watches WNBA????
There is room for other ‘lesser’ leagues, just please keep them real, no friggin stupid belts that challenge UFC soveriegnty and stop sounding like parasites when you promote the shows. You would’t hear the Toledo Mud Hens claiming to have the best product ever, even if ARod played for thwm during a contract dispute.
Affliction was UFC castoffs, mostly from their, as we ALL know, weakest division. They are retooling and have 3 young killers that are being groomed in that division PLUS a healthy and motivated Mir. They let go ‘names’ who overvalued themselvesd (AA and Sylvia) and Barnett is a wigga talkin rebel and Fedor has idiot management. In 2 years wih seasoning Carwin, Velasquez and Lesnar will be dominant above all with the possible exception of Fedor (who will either join in or fight silly exhibition type fights because Affliction will be deader than their ugly skull and crossbone patterns)and with enough gatekeepers in the division to keep things very interesting and highly entertaining. I call that smart management.
You need to groom fighters. Affliction is a castoff league stealing UFC thunder and calling it gold. They will look to sign others outside of that perception but their business model sucks but does strengthens MMA in the long run because they make the UFC more time and battle tested. In the meantime, enjoy and pay for your AA bouts, and remember that he was no more than a UFC undercard, that you so much complain about!
Cheers mates
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