Affliction COO indicates face-off versus UFC 100 is nonsense
It was a report that seemed so phony, it had to be baloney. There was talk yesterday that struggling fight promotion Affliction, was going to put its third pay-per-view show head-to-head against UFC 100. Affliction COO Michael D. Cohen told Versus.com that no MMA promotion could be dumb enough to battle UFC 100:
"I don’t think we are ever looking to go up against the UFC or anyone for that matter. We are certainly not looking to share the viewers or the audience that is our there. We would like a date to ourselves because, at the end of the day, we want the greatest number of people to be watching."
Exactamundo. Affliction would be committing promotional suicide by battling UFC 100 plus now it looks like HBO has locked-in July 11th for a potential Floyd Mayweather Jr. comeback or Bernard Hopkins’ next fight.
Cohen threw out one surprising statement about the success of Affliction’s last show in January:
Cohen said that the second Affliction pay-per-view in January generated “somewhere in the neighborhood 200,000 pay-per-view buys.” If so, that would make “Affliction: Day of Reckoning” the highest-grossing non-UFC pay-per-view of all-time. Cohen used this as further proof that the organization’s days of promoting events are far from over.
Ariel Helwani got Cohen to say that the company is concerned about the economy and there may be fighter salary paycuts on the way.
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