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After Josh Barnett got caught being on steroids they canceled the main event of Affliction: Trilogy that was supposed to feature him against Fedor.
This thing snowballed into them canceling the whole event. Naturally being new in the business this hurt them badly. They worked on a deal with Strikeforce to do a merge but that didn't work out.
As a result of this they canceled their fighting promotion branch and went back to sponsoring the UFC instead.
Their contracted fighters are pending, it's unclear what will happen but probably either UFC for everyone, or free of choice.
UFC got a big sponsor back and possibly quite a few good fighters including the one we have been craving for to bash UFC HW for a long time - Fedor himself.
But don't get your hopes up to much... We have all seen Fedor to the ufc go out the window before.
Please post any information you have
source: i googled
random hit: http://mmajunkie.com/news/15625/affliction-folds-mma-promotion-will-sponsor-ufc.mma
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Wow, this is interesting news... Kinda bummed that they are cancelling that whole event though... Oh well, there's still UFC, WEC, and Strikeforce within the first two weeks of August.
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OMFG i was waiting all summer for the fedor fight
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Most of the fighters that were with Affliction had contracts that allowed them to be non-exclusive to Affliction, and thus many of them are already affiliated with other organizations. Dream, Sengoku, Strikeforce etc..
UFC won't buy out their contracts for reasons like this and the fact that many of them were overpaid based on the fact that Affliction was paying them more money than most were worth in terms of PPV draws.
With that said, it's always fun to hope for the best, and I really hope to see any of these fighters Vitor, Mousasi, Fedor, Lil Nog, Arlovski, Rothwell, Aleks, and Babalu in the UFC in the future.
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i hope gomi goes to the ufc now
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yeah fighting someone youve never heard of
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I figured Barnett would have learned his lesson. Back to fighting in Japan I guess.
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