Report: Matt Lindland vs. Trevor Prangley set for Affliction II
August 24, 2008 by Adam Morgan
MMA Junkie is reporting that Matt Lindland and Trevor Prangley are set to face off against one another at October’s Affliction: Day of Reckoning event. Lindland’s original opponent, Vitor Belfort, had to pull out of the fight due to a hand injury.
Lindland’s last fight came at Affliction: Banned where he took a unanimous decision victory home over a very game opponent in Fabio Negao. Many thought that Lindland would steamroll Negao but Negao was able to give Lindland some trouble on the feet during the fight and was able to sustain a deep guillotine attempt, which is Lindland’s bread and butter submission, in the first round. Lindland was able to pull out the victory and knock off the ring rust from not fighting for over a year.
Prangley will now face off against Lindland at the event. Prangley is a long time veteran of the sport and has fought some of the biggest names in the middleweight division. He holds wins over fighters such as Chael Sonnen, Yuki Kondo, Travis Lutter, and Matt Horwich and has fought against several other top level fighters as well.
Prangley is also a former BodogFIGHT middleweight champion and at one point had been rumored to be set to defend his crown against Lindland, a former Olympic silver medalist in Greco Roman wrestling. However, financial problems pertaining to the new-defunct fight promotion prevented the proposed bout from ever being finalized.
Wow, I can’t think of a more bland match up not to get excited over. This is a PPV, right? Because the electricity of this match up makes me think it should be airing on PBS during a ‘very special edition’ of Antiques Roadshow.
SOLID match up for Affliction’s sophmore PPV outing. This is marquee match making as it has the chance to catapult absolutely no one to stardom and should increase PPV buys by approximately .00001%, or whatever the the math is that equates to Prangley’s immediate family and friends that dont attend the live show. I’m stoked!
LOL Affliction still like Matt Lindland. He is lousy fighter and so bored!
The next great ‘Battle of Who Cares?’ If this is some of the best matchmaking Affliction can come up with, they’re in real trouble.
Whatever, Affliction had a good first event, and they will only get better. Plus Lindland is always interesting to watch. Quit hatin’ on the competition!
And you call yourselves “hardcore” fans! Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!
If you were so “hardcore” you would appreciate every mma event that took place, but you don’t so whatever!