Sam Caplan has a piece up at CBS taking umbrage with those focusing on the financial follies of Affliction:
However, in spite of the abundance of talent this show stands to offer, there are still some Internet curmudgeons who have taken issue with Affliction and the amount of money they intend to spend on the card, which has been reported to be anywhere between $4 million to $6 million.
Which begs the question: Who cares?
Because, after all, it’s not our money. If Affliction has it and wants to spend it generously, where’s the downside? If someone wants to toss around millions of dollars for the benefit of the MMA fan, I’m all for it.
First of all, I plan to attend this card, and I am really looking forward to it. That being said, here are the reasons I care:
1. “Wow this card looks awesome” is easy for anyone to say, bloggers and writers should be looking deeper into cards than that. It’s hard to really get into analyzing fights when it’s likely we won’t see any long term impact from results or champions because the company will be gone by mid 2009.
2. I want to have a legitimate number 2 promotion. A company like Affliction that signed Fedor could be that promotion if they weren’t insisting on making dumb moves and ensuring their own quick demise. We all lose when companies quickly go out of business.
3. The card is being seriously overrated. Besides Fedor and Tim, which is a good fight, every fight on the card with a name is a serious mismatch and a borderline squash fight. I understand why they do it and it makes sense, but nothing on the card excites me at all except the main event, which is frankly only exciting because it’s been so long since Fedor fought anyone of note. If they add Arlovski/Rothwell, that’s a second good fight, but still this card doesn’t even hold a candle to UFC 84.
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