AfflictionWorld renowned MMA clothing company, Affliction, reached into their pockets and pulled together an organization of top fighters, marketed & publicized by Affliction Entertainment VP, Tom Atencio. This organization, unlike their competition, is open to cross-promotion.
Affliction just announced today that Andre Arlovski and Ben Rothwell will fight each other at Affliction: Banned on July 19.
The “Banned” fight card will be the first show promoted by Affliction and has one of the best fight cards of the year. Rothwell still is under contract with Adrenaline MMA but is fighting with permission on the Affliction card. Since the inaugural Adrenaline event is just a month earlier, he will not be available for the Adrenaline show.
Here is the current fight card for the Affliction: Banned event:
Fedor Emelianenko vs Tim Sylvia
Josh Barnett vs Pedro Rizzo
Ben Rothwell vs Andre Arlovski
Aleksander Emelianenko vs Paul Buentello
Matt Lindland vs Fabio Negao
Renato Sobral vs Mike Whitehead
Savant Young vs Mark Hominick
Brett Cooper vs Mike Pyle
Ray Lamaza vs Justin Levens
JJ Ambrose vs Patrick Speight
** UPDATE **
The original story on Adrenaline MMA’s website has been taken down and as a result I removed the link from my post as well. Also, I have since updated the post to [Rumor] status and am trying to reconfirm the bout through some other sources. ** UPDATE 2 **
It appears that none other than Ben Rothwell himself has confirmed the story in the Sherdog.net forums. So, rest easy boys, I don’t post stories without the [Rumor] tag unless I’m sure they are legit.
That rumor was shot down by Affliction a week or two ago. As of right now, Arlovski isn't on the Banned card. May 19th was thrown around as a date we might hear about a signing, as that was claimed to be the deadline for UFC's 'matching offer' clause.
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well if Rothwell said its going down then thats a pretty good source, but you never know.
i was browsing through sherdog and someone made a thread saying the same thing, then rothwell started a thread calling the guys a liar and freaking out at everyone saying its a rumor, not a very nice guy
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Yeah, but after that he posted and said that he just wanted to clarify that he was not fighting on the date that guy said, but he implied that he's in fact fighting Arlovski. We'll know soon I guess.
Bah, ring sucks, it's good for boxing though...
So this is basically a done deal but not going to be publicly confirmed for a little while yet? This is going to be another HUGE loss for the UFC HW division, they better stop the bleeding soon or they are going to wind up with two organizations without a HW division.
Arlovski vs Rothwell set for Banned
) in the future, yeah baby!!!
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