Affliction talk

[cowboyronnie]

Those shirts are lame.

[UrbanLegendMD]

Those shirts are ugly.

http://www.afflictionclothing.com/

White people and their sense of fashion...SMH

[Susan]

http://www.fighters.com/07/21/monday-mo ... d-rothwell

Some pretty interesting rumors goin around.

[CPT]

A great article on the business side of Affliction...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_ylt=A ... &type=lgns

The UFC has been banking on making things so difficult for Affliction that it would lose oodles of money and be forced to cave.

So far, that hasn’t occurred. Saturday’s show did a gate of nearly $2.1 million, though a source close to the situation said Affliction purchased $500,000 of those tickets itself. Affliction vice president Tom Atencio conceded the company did purchase a large number of the best seats for use for friends and family of the fighters and the company employees, as well as VIPs, but he would not confirm an amount.

But he said the pay-per-view results, which most analysts were expecting to come in around 75,000, was well better than expected.

“I don’t have everything on that yet, but for the people who felt this was going to be a total flop in that regard, I have news for them,” Atencio said. “It’s already done a lot better than what I’ve heard people speculating. I’m not going to release the (official) number, but it’s already well beyond what people have been saying. Well beyond.”

Atencio would only say the final number “definitely” would be beyond 100,000.

But he said the pay scale was artificially high because Affliction needed to make noise in the industry.

“We had to come out swinging and make a big splash and we did,” Atencio said of Saturday’s card, which featured five of the world’s top 10 heavyweights. “Having said that, we realize this is a business first and that if we don’t turn a profit, we’re not going to be around. We need to have the guys understand that.

“We know (fighters) want to be treated well and we’re willing to work with them, but they have to be willing to work with us. We just can’t go out there and throw money around without thought. The guys have to be willing to work with us and can’t simply look at us as a cash cow.”

Hats off to Affliction if that 100k+ buyrate is for real. Considering the UFC's event did pretty well in the ratings, getting over 100,000 people to pay for your product is huge.

Also interesting to hear about the fighter salaries. This could mean they will come down quite a bit on future events, which is not a bad idea for them. Could backfire on them though, as salaries in any sport usually don't come back down once they start coming up.

[Headliner]

Those shirts are a mix of 'tattoo' shirts (words/tattoo designs on places like the collar bone) and those old Dragon Ball Z shirts with like blue flames and weird **** on them.

[Headliner]

Paying guys big money is smart.
Everyone knows the UFCs rep for short handing fighters. By having a big pay PPV as your first one, you start the publicity machine and writers/critics will look more heavily at the UFCs salaries.
Next UFC PPV the fighters salaries will be more scrutinized.

[Blame Rasho]

I am glad that the salaries are up there....

[Cochulito]

Word on the streets is that the Silva fight did around 4.6 million viewers at its peak during the main event.