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Bornagaincollector

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If i was Affliction i would challange them to put any of there Heavyweights againt Fedor with the fight being in Las Vegas.


Affliction cancels Vegas card
By Kevin Iole
Affliction Entertainment, running into frequent obstacles attempting to promote a mixed martial arts card in the hometown of the rival Ultimate Fighting Championship, on Wednesday postponed its planned Oct. 11 show in Las Vegas.

The card, which was to feature a main event between heavyweights Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett, will likely be moved to the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., sometime in January.

Affliction promoted a successful live show at the Honda Center on July 19, when Fedor Emelianenko submitted Tim Sylvia in just 36 seconds in the main event. Affliction Entertainment vice president Tom Atencio said the show did in excess of 100,000 buys, though he has repeatedly declined to give an exact figure.

The show also drew a crowd of 14,832 which paid a gate of nearly $2.1 million, according to the California State Athletic Commission. However, the show had a disclosed fighter payroll of $3.3 million, a figure which does not include bonuses which pushed it closer to $5 million. Emelianenko is listed as making only $300,000, but several sources said he received a bonus of between $1 million and $1.3 million, which would have brought his total compensation to as much as $1.6 million for the event. Sylvia was paid $800,000.

Given that, the event likely lost significant money. UFC president Dana White has frequently predicted Affliction would soon cease operations. On a conference call last week, White said he would be "shocked" if Affliction was still promoting in January. Atencio has said several times that the UFC was making it difficult for Affliction to promote in Las Vegas, where the UFC's headquarters are located. However, he has declined to specify what UFC officials had done.

Atencio could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.
 

HPC

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im actually a little surprised by this.

although, once I looked at the numbers, it wasnt surprising.

fedor and sylvias contracts alone were 2 million. arena rental had to be high, the hi-def equipment isnt cheap, plus, the bonuses and payouts of the other fighters, plus the millions they spent promoting.

id say they spent close to 8 mil, and took in 4-5.

not super bad, but, not good either.
 

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