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.
It was announced over the weekend that Mauro Ranallo and John McCarthy have been named as the announce team for Affliction’s first-ever event on Saturday, July 19 in Anaheim, Calif.
Ranallo, a former play-by-play announcer for PRIDE, is also the play-by-play announcer for mixed martial arts events on SHOWTIME as well as a color commentator for EliteXC events that air on CBS. He also hosts a daily combat sports radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio and Hardcore Sports Radio every weekday from 3-4 p.m. ET.
McCarthy had been a long-time MMA referee before announcing his retirement last year in order to accept a dual executive-announcer with The Fight Network. He also owns a training center based out of California and is a former law enforcement official.
Affliction: Banned will be headlined by a main event featuring former PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko taking on former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia in a match to decide the first-ever WAMMA heavyweight champion. Other bouts slated for the card include a rematch between former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo; Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell and Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao.
Awesome, I'm sure Big John will do great. Its cool to see the "voices" of Banned will be two guys that are very educated in MMA, it will make the show even that much more high end!
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just lets hope that he has a good voice and knows how to time his comments.
anywhere caring to provide a couple of links to fights where mauro is comentating? id like to see a few before i comment on him but i'm just going to tell you that Goldie and Rogan are a tough duo to beat.
I mean, even when Goldie keeps on making mistakes about the techniques and the educated aspect of the game, he has an awesome commentator's voice and Rogan is just his perfect counterpart covering up his screw ups and giving interesting views on the matches.
Wow this could be a great duo! McCarthy is in the rare position on being a trainer, referee, and well respected among MMA fans. And we all know that Mauro rules!
Mauro is better that Goldie imo (as far as radio voice AND knowledge is concerned) and Big John is a good guy, but I think he's too soft spoken for the whole thing, but we shall see!
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Mauro and Big John to commentate Banned PPV
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