It’s official.
Affliction MMA has confirmed with MMARated.com that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski will face current WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction ‘Day of Reckoning’ in late January 2009.
The dream match that most fans have fantasized about for years is finally here.
Arlovski (14-5) was last seen devouring IFL veteran Roy “Big […]

Affliction MMA Vice President Tom Atencio was our guest this past Monday on MMAmania.com’s exclusive presentation of Pro MMA Radio.
Fresh off Saturday’s CBS/Elite XC ‘Heat’ event that featured Affliction fighters Andrei Arlovski and Roy Nelson, Atencio talked about the future of Affliction MMA, details behind the co-promotions with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden […]

Affliction MMA Vice President Tom Atencio will be tonight’s guest on MMAmania.com’s exclusive presentation of Pro MMA Radio airing at 9pm EST.
Fresh off Saturday’s CBS/Elite XC ‘Heat’ event that featured Affliction fighters Andrei Arlovski and Roy Nelson, Atencio talks the future of Affliction MMA, details behind the co-promotions with Oscar De La […]

Elite XC: “Heat” — the third installment of “Saturday Night Fights” on CBS — is set to go off live from the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., this Saturday, October 4, beginning at 9 p.m. ET on national television.
To get us prepared for the event, we will showcase a daily feature for each main card […]

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Quoteworthy:
“I read somewhere that I had declined the fight because I would have had to take a pay cut. I suppose others may also formulate some story about me declining the fight for other reasons. I never declined to take this fight. I was never told that I would have any part of my […]

Give WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko credit because he sure knows how to milk the adulation out of a Japanese crowd.
The former king of PRIDE made a cameo at Tuesday’s DREAM 6 event to answer a challenge from a certain Judokan loudmouth named Satoshi Ishii and to bask in the rays of his Japanese nuthuggers.
Ishii won […]

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“I think they’re in a very tough area.  Golden Boy is doing a very good job in boxing. Oscar De La Hoya knows boxing.  There’s nobody there that knows MMA. I think Affliction or Oscar, if they’re going to team up, still needs an MMA promoter.  Because at the end of the day, it’s the […]

Drum roll please …
Affliction MMA recently “postponed” its encore pay-per-view (PPV) event “Day of Reckoning” — originally scheduled for October 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada — because the promotion had a big announcement to make tonight about the company’s future.
And Vice President Tom Atencio had curious fans buzzing when he revealed that the announcement would […]

Not since Jonathan Lansdale has a man had so much trouble with his hand.
Affliction headliner and WAMMA heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko is set to return to action at the recently reconstructed fight card for Affliction ‘Day of Reckoning’ in January 2009 according to NBC Sports.
Emelianenko was kept off the original ‘Reckoning’ card (previously scheduled for […]