I already said you were right about that what more do you want from me? I was only clarifying the point of my original post, I acknowledged that I didn’t take into account the t-shirt side of the business.

Because they are associated with and well known for what really brings in the money for them, which is their t-shirt company. Personally, spending money to produce a television event with an “Well, we’re going to fail anyways, let’s waste more money” attitude would make them look like poor businessmen.

Whatever future endeavors they may become involved in….let’s say they turn more of their attention to boxing (and their relationship with Golden Boy)….does it make them look good from a business perspective by throwing away money like that?

My comments are hypothetical, but still. They have a reputation and other business ventures to hold up.

Joseph…if they aired this show on HDNet, they would not get “really nice” ratings. Airing a show on HDNet is worlds away from, let’s say, Elite XC on CBS. As for Showtime, the ratings would be better. But if Affliction is on their way out, and Showtime now in bed with Strikeforce, I wonder how that would work.

And get something straight….Affliction would prefer to do a PPV if the choice were theirs. Problem is, and this was mentioned way before your comment, there is not a PPV distributor in the world who would ever put their show on against the UFC.

Which bring us back to the beginning….regardless of how they want to do it, be it free TV or PPV, it’s an awful, awful decision to go up against UFC 100.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that UFC 100 may be the first PPV that ESPN actually covers live, on-set, on SportsCenter (like they do with big, big boxing matches). ESPN has been doing online test runs at UFC PPV’s for a while now, and it’s no secret that they are doing this to test the waters on covering it on the actual network. That, in addition to the coverage ESPN will give the event on ESPNews, ESPN’s First Take show and SportsCenter will trounce anything Affliction tries to do.

As far as giving the UFC a little taste of their own medicine, I never said it would work and I don’t think Affliction is under the delusion the UFC will care at all. I was simply saying that as a matter of principle they could be doing to the UFC what has been done to them. Even if it took away a single ppv buy from the UFC their point would be made.

My whole point was to ask how it could be a bad business decision for them to go up against the UFC if they are already failing anyway? Apparently everyone missed that part of my post.

And kidneybeans is a moniker chosen to pay tribute to any fighters who target the sensitive kidney area, we just don’t see repeated shots to the kids often enough. It is also the nickname I would chose if I were to fight in an mma match.

If its on HD Net, Fox Sports Net, My Network or on PPV its a watse of everyones time

If they pull off a soild fight card and are on one of the 4 major networks than I’ll be watching or atleast DVR-ing the event

I like their guts on this one and if its there last show anyway than who really cares. I remmber when UFC aired the A Silva vs. J Irvin fight their was not this much out cry

Affliction has no business doing a fight night the same night as the UFC. I don’t get it. Something is up. There has to be something really going on that no one but Affliction and the UFC know about. I’m telling you, I have a conspiracy theory. Affliction was created to be a large MMA promotion and to be destroyed. I believe that the UFC has their hands in this and that they are secretly in bed with Affliction to show the world that no MMA promotion can touch the UFC. I guarantee that after Affliction falls, they will be allowed to have their shirts displayed and worn by UFC fighters once again.

Just wait and see. No company in their right mind would go head to head with the UFC, failing or not. No company purposely loses millions of dollars just for the sake of “I hoped you learned your lesson”. Especially if they are on their way out the door in the business world.

This is marketing at it’s best. I see it and I should be working for the UFC.

Even if their event were on free TV, Affliction would be cutting it’s own wrists. Only hardcore fight fans with TiVo would see their show and hardly anyone would even know the show took place. There’s no way Affliction would do something that dumb. Anyone who thinks there is any way to successfully counter-program the UFC’s biggest show is so wrong that I can’t even begin to fully explain your wrongness without access to three camels, a tricycle, two dancing bears, and a circus midget. And I am fresh out of midgets. So trust me, it ain’t gonna happen.

Head to head with a live UFC event is complete suicide at this point.

If they choose to go on TV with either HDnet, Showtime, etc, they can piggy back off the ratings from all the UFC fans who are going to watch UFC 100. They are not going to counter with another PPV (which is what most of you are thinking since most of you think they are committing suicide). In fact, most people will be sitting at home and they would be willing to Tivo or flip channels to watch Affliction (Fedor, Vitor, etc) and they would get some REALLY nice ratings, which means the TV portion of the deal may be a lot nicer. Plus, if they hold the event in Dallas (which is the headquarters of HDNet), they would get a venue at a discount as part of the deal, so they would get a good gate and have a nice tv deal.

The only obstacle that Affliction has to get through is to lower the payscale so that doing this makes sense.

As far as I’m concerned the UFC made Affliction clothing as popular as it is today. I never heard of the brand until I saw UFC fighters sporting it pre-fight. In a way this is poetic. UFC made Affliction and they will hand them their demise if Affliction decides to show July 11.

Do you have a better reason they picked the date of July 11th out of midair? Sam very dutifully in the article doesn’t speculate as to why they are going this route, but it does ring of Seppuku to me.

I guess its also a little bit easier to think they’re doing it out of spite after hearing Todd Beard on Scott Ferrall’s show a few months back making a drunken fool of himself. I don’t think he’s still around at Affliction, but they never seemed like they were run by level headed businessmen.

Don’t get me wrong, I wish like hell that there was more competition to the UFC. I hope Strikeforce finds a nice home with Showtime and continues to carve out their own niche.

But to think for a second that going head to head with a proven giant is a good business idea is absolutely moronic. Are you going to tell me that in this day and age, with the economy the way it is, “business decisions aren’t really good or bad?”

If Affliction fails as a mixed martial arts promotion, I won’t go as far to say it will hurt their t-shirt business. But, seeing that a large portion of that business is catered to MMA folks, it certainly can’t help the company’s rep if and when it goes down.