July 19th: Affliction Vs. UFC
It’s old news now and I’m sure that every dedicated MMA fan knows the story behind it all. For those that don’t… Basically Affliction, the clothing company are putting on their first live MMA show titled “Affliction: Banned.” The Affliction card is one of the greatest anyone could of put together. What better way to stop the fans from seeing it than giving people a free event featuring your greatest fighter. Well thats exactly what the UFC did to counter. They offered a free event to be aired on Spike TV featuring the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world Anderson Silva on his move up-to Light Heavyweight fighting James “Sandman” Irvin.
So will it work? I think it will. They should get good numbers of PPV buys. Not good numbers by UFC standards but I think they will be up there. Affliction is already nearing the the almost 11,000 tickets sold by the UFC for their recent event, UFC 86. Currently sitting at around 8,500 tickets with just over a week to go to the event officially kicks off, it wont be a sell out but it should be close.
In my opinion Affliction will get approximately 350,000 PPV buys and sell around 9,500 tickets for their show. I think it will be deemed a success even with the UFC trying to compete.
On the night of the event I not be watching either live. I will be going to see KOTC Canada which is right here in Edmonton. I will see both the events though. UFC via DVR and for Affliction I will buy the re-run as soon as I get home without even going on the net. I will give full analysis on all 3 of the events from that night.
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Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran