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Should Affliction Start a Promotional War With the UFC?
Published 8/19/2008 by Luke Thomas at Bloody Elbow
... Maybe "war" is a bit strong, but "conflict" might be precisely what the company needs to gain any traction, make any impact or have any noteworthy fingerprint. What is becoming painfully obvious is that rival MMA organizations to the UFC cannot seem to generate publicity and interest among the media, corporate sponsors and fans on their own. They need the UFC to hate them and them explicitly. Zach Arnold explains: ...

About that ProElite filing
Published 8/21/2008 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap
... when promotions are on their death beds. He pretty much rode the Midnight Ride alone, yelling “Pride is dying, Pride is dying!” No one listened to him, and now he still gets to lay claim to the biggest “I told you so!” in the history of MMA news reporting. Anyways, he didn’t put too much effort into covering the IFL’s demise (and who can blame him, that shit was just too obvious), but now he’s really turning up the heat on ProElite. And it’s resulting in really good articles like this and ...