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"Andrei Arlovski to Affliction MMA announcement expected tomorrow from Donald Trump
By: MMAmania
This is something that I never thought I’d type:

Donald Trump — who has forged a partnership with Affliction MMA — will tomorrow announce the acquisition of former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski at a noon press conference at Trump Tower in New York, N.Y., according to MMARated.com.

In addition, “The Pitbull” will take on Ben Rothwell (as expected) during the debut pay-per-view (PPV) event for the promotion at the at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., on July 19.

Trump is also expected to reveal more details on his partnership with Affliction MMA, which according to the report, he owns a “significant amount” of the upstart promotion.

This is about to get real interesting … as if it isn’t already. Stay tuned. In the meantime, to get some more background on Trump’s involvement with mixed martial arts click here. Here's the more info link:
http://mmamania.com/2008/06/03/donal...-banned-event/ "

From:
http://mmamania.com/2008/06/04/andre...-donald-trump/


Affliction is on a roll- I know this isn't official official but it's pretty close. I was wondering why the hold up on AA's status- maybe the Donald wanted to come with a splash.

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NikosCC

Its Official.. Good i can't wait to see some of these amazing fights that affliction could have set up when Fedor beats Big Tim set up Fedor vs AA

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Pyros

And Aleks vs AA .

NikosCC

I would enjoy seeing
Aleks vs Big Tim
Barnett vs Arlovski
Barnett vs Big Tim
Fedor vs Barnett

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Walker

Alright definitely looking official for sure now:

"Report: Andrei Arlovski signs with Affliction; Trump becomes partner
by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Jun 04, 2008 at 5:41 pm ET
Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski will be announced as Affliction's latest acquisition during tomorrow's press conference in New York City, according to a report from MMARated.com.

Additionally, Donald Trump will be introduced as a new equity partner in the fight promotion, according to an executive in the Trump organization that was quoted in the report.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported earlier today, Affliction and Trump have scheduled a press conference for tomorrow in New York City.

According to the website, Executive Vice President of The Trump organization and the Special Counsel to Donald J. Trump, Michael D. Cohen, has confirmed that Trump will introduce Arlovski as the fight promotion's latest acquisition.

Arlovski will fight Ben Rothwell at Affliction's debut event, which takes place July 19 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Fedor Emelianenko meets Tim Sylvia in the night's main event.

Arlovski (12-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC), a Chicago-based fighter, reigned as the UFC's heavyweight title-holder from February 2005 to April 2006. Since losing a July 2006 title fight to then-champ Tim Sylvia, Arlovski's has pieced together three consecutive victories. Arlovski fulfilled the fight commitment of his previous UFC contract when he defeated Jake O'Brien at UFC 82 in March, and the UFC lost its exclusive rights to negotiate with the Belarusian fighter on May 1.

For more on tomorrow's press conference, check out our earlier report."

From:
http://mmajunkie.com/news/4502/repor...affliction.mma


Big loss for the ever dwindling HW division but as has been stated this paves the way for some awesome HW match-ups in Affliction.

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Lotus

awesome glad AA has found a place that will treat him right. Awesome fights around the corner thats for sure

vandalian

Arlovski vs. Rothwell has potential to be a war.

N1™

wellwell..... seems like the UFC will get some competition

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Arlovski_Fan

Affliction is better with HW's and DREAM is better with LW and almost on par with MW's. I bet Dana is a little PO'd.

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One step at a time for Affliction.

I can now say Afflitction has the best big time HW division.

1. Fedor
2. Arlovski
3. Silvia
4. Rothwell
5. Alexander
6. Barnett

I hope these guys can take over the MMA world and put the UFC out of the lime light. I cant stand Dana White and the way he treats the fighters.