Golden Boy, Affliction team up to bring top-level fighters together on same card

Just stay out of Cali. Don't you mean Vegas? cuz White "runs that city" lol NSAC is good people to MMA, despite using boxing judges. CSAC accused giants of using Baldanone. That's like accusing a diabetic of stashing sugar cookies. NSAC is looking into Instant Reply for MMA. CSAC is still suspending fighters for cartwheel passes and cross body dives. NSAC allows fights to be set based on performance. CSAC stops fights based on The Ultimate Fighter.

Just stay out of Cali. Don't you mean Vegas? cuz White "runs that city" lol I think the Affliction/Golden Boy merge under cuts both sports at the same time. Affliction, because it shows they for the time being are unable to make it as a Full time MMA promotion (because of the merge the first 4 shows will have both boxing+MMA ... means less MMA, for an MMA promotion not a good thing) and boxing because it's been a reoccurring argument through the media and even on here (still counting down the days till ANOTHER tired and boring MMA>boxing article) that MMA is "taking over" so give a co-promotion between Boxing and MMA, and all the above arguments get brought to surface all over again.

ALSO! Because UFC is in Ireland, all the sports pubs are going to **** the card over by showing the live stream in the afternoon. GBP/Affliction will go unopposed at night. I can't believe I forgot that part.

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Can I put points on this failing miserably? lol This is just plain stupid for the boxing world...:thumbsdow golden boy is going to help put the nail in boxings coffin Au Contrair. This could be the night you finally beat Dana at his own game. You see, they're planing a card for the same day in Ireland. The headling is Dan Henderson vs. Rich Franklin. Now, everyone from the MMA community knows for a fact that Dana is trying to get his boy Franklin a third shot at the Middleweight title with this match and after Evans/Liddell, the community really doesn't like that crap. Other then that, Silva doesn't put too much thought into undercards playing the UK or Ireland. If Golden Boy can pull out a real good match up out of their pocket and mix that with the Fedor match, You really can put a dent in Dana's ass. Just stay out of Cali.

golden boy is going to help put the nail in boxings coffin

This is just plain stupid for the boxing world...:thumbsdow

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Can I put points on this failing miserably? lol

This Just In: DREAM Middleweight Champ Gerard Mousasi will be facing Vitor Belfort on the card. The Fedor situation is up in the air. Josh Barnett is thrown in the mix.

Honestly unless you are an avid MMA fan you watch it for the blood and stand up. If you include boxing in the mix of an MMA event and the boxing match out plays the MMA match then you might swing some fans over to the boxing side of things. In the long run boxing has been here for a long time and will out last this current MMA faze....Lefty well again the bold is a hypothetical, there's no telling what GB will try to do as regards go toward the boxing half of the MMA/boxing PPV. depends what direction they try to go, big names, or what ever. and it does have to be entertaining/exciting to play out like your scenerio and even if some fans do swing over to boxing how long will they last? as I really think the lack of Network exposure for boxing, + PPV costs scare away a lot of potential fans. **like if you don't have HBO/Showtime, and don't feel like spending on PPV, your really outta the loop (except for Versus, Fri Night Fights, smaller shows and of course streaming/youtube) would you really call MMA a faze though? because as long as UFC is on network TV, and the PPV's cost less then the boxing ones ... It'll be around for a while. I'd also like to interject what the above poster said. "gbp is trying to cover all its bases. it tells you that gbp doesn't see a boxing revival in the U.S." as long as boxing is mainly dependent on HBO+Showtime+PPV's it really won't have a revival. sure the DLH/Pac fight will supposedly attract lots of casual fans ... but how does that help the long term boxing landscape. Oscar and Manny make a quick buck and move on to the next fight.

LAS VEGAS -- Golden Boy Promotions, one of the leading boxing promotional companies in the world, is branching out into mixed martial arts, CEO Richard Schaefer announced Saturday at a news conference at the MGM Grand. Golden Boy Promotions, which is promoting the Joel Casamayor-Juan Manuel Marquez lightweight title fight here on Saturday night, took a break from boxing to talk MMA in announcing a partnership with Affliction, a fledgling MMA promoter and apparel company known for its hip T-shirts. "We have started looking at mixed martial arts and we finally decided to throw our hat into the mixed martial arts ring," Schaefer said. "I think there are some tremendous opportunities for crossover promotions and to team up with an iconic brand such as Affliction is a big step for us." Golden Boy and Affliction will partner 50-50 on at least four pay-per-view shows next year that will include boxing matches and MMA fights on the same card. Smaller promoters have paired the two sports on cards, but never at the top level. "We're looking to put together top MMA fighters as well as top boxers in one night. I think the two worlds have finally merged, and this is a perfect example," Affliction vice president Tom Atencio said. Affliction, whose apparel is popular with many MMA fighters and boxers such as Kelly Pavlik and Bernard Hopkins, promoted its first MMA event July 19 in Anaheim, Calif. A second show was scheduled for Oct. 11 in Las Vegas but postponed because of lagging ticket sales. The main event was supposed to be a heavyweight match between Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett with the winner expected to face Fedor Emelianenko. When the card was called off, Golden Boy attempted to have Arlovski-Barnett rescheduled as part of the Oct. 18 Pavlik-Hopkins HBO PPV card. However, co-promoter Top Rank and HBO rejected the overture. "They presented us with the option and we respectfully declined," HBO PPV chief Mark Taffet told ESPN.com. As part of its deal with Golden Boy, Affliction will produce a line of event T-shirts for Golden Boy fights to sell at retail locations and at the fight. The first fight it will make shirts for is the Dec. 6 match between Golden Boy boss Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao. In addition, Affliction will become the official apparel licensee for Ring Magazine, which Golden Boy bought last year. It unveiled several sample T-shirts featuring old covers of Ring magazine, including ones of Sugar Ray Robinson. ESPN.com Wow gbp is trying to cover all its bases. it tells you that gbp doesn't see a boxing revival in the U.S.

UGH, MMA and Boxing on the same card? I'll tune out I can't stand groundwork, infact it depends who is fighting I'll watch Silva or Fedor sometimes and guy who are known for stand up game but screw the ground fighters

I think at first because of all the publicity it'll get a lot of media attention and the first show will probably do well on PPV but IMO because of "inter mingling" so to speak of the 2 sports this hybrid will have trouble past the 1st two shows because 1. Affliction was trying to open as a strictly MMA promotion, so sure adding GBP does help Affliction as far as promotionally + financially but Boxing and MMA on the same card means less MMA, as they'll have to cut down on the # of MMA fights in order to make room for the boxing ones. and secondly, boxing has enough trouble making worthy PPV's month in month out as is. How realistic are the expectations going to be for this 1st Co Promotional MMA/Boxing PPV to equally balance enough fights where it can be a good overall event? It'll be interesting to see, but I doubt that this whole Boxing/MMA same show idea will last very long. Honestly unless you are an avid MMA fan you watch it for the blood and stand up. If you include boxing in the mix of an MMA event and the boxing match out plays the MMA match then you might swing some fans over to the boxing side of things. In the long run boxing has been here for a long time and will out last this current MMA faze....Lefty

For anyone still following this, word is that Fedor will be facing the winner of the Arlovski/Nelson fight happening this weekend on CBS. It will be for the WAMMA title on Jan. 17th.

I wouldn't say it would be bad for Boxing exactly. I do think that both parties really need to sit down and think while planning this. They need to help the boxing fan along as well as the MMA fan in trying to "coexist". If I were in their shoes....I'd work an ad campain that would possibly ease in everybody. Maybe have a top boxer and a top MMA fighter discuss the differences with their sports and how they also relate. Put it up on the web in a series of installments. Also, what do they put in their programmes? If you can sneak in the rules of MMA and boxing followed by a brief five page bio of MMA, I'm sure it might go well. If I were running the card, I'd try to pair really good striker (bonus if they have a boxing base) with very good grapplers. Barnett/Arlovski is a step in the right direction. LeBanner/Silvia would be good too. I'd also look into get a fight with Rogerio Nogueria as well.

I think at first because of all the publicity it'll get a lot of media attention and the first show will probably do well on PPV but IMO because of "inter mingling" so to speak of the 2 sports this hybrid will have trouble past the 1st two shows because 1. Affliction was trying to open as a strictly MMA promotion, so sure adding GBP does help Affliction as far as promotionally + financially but Boxing and MMA on the same card means less MMA, as they'll have to cut down on the # of MMA fights in order to make room for the boxing ones. and secondly, boxing has enough trouble making worthy PPV's month in month out as is. How realistic are the expectations going to be for this 1st Co Promotional MMA/Boxing PPV to equally balance enough fights where it can be a good overall event? It'll be interesting to see, but I doubt that this whole Boxing/MMA same show idea will last very long.

good business yes, bad for boxing I think so, if its slowly creeping up taking over boxing shows I thing there is something to worry about here

It's a good business decision.