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06-05-2008, 09:59 AM
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Looking real big! This is great news IMO and I hope Affliction really takes it to the UFC (and am sure they will). If you havent heard...

"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 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."
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Josh Barnett is also involved no?
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exciting card but donald trump + mma?

I dunno about this....
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Yeah....you can tell that he has no clue about MMA. He's just doing it for the publicity and money.
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Trump's name alone will bring people in that otherwise would not have looked twice. Smart move.
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Yeah....you can tell that he has no clue about MMA. He's just doing it for the publicity and money.
Thats the beauty of it though. He doesnt need to know about MMA, he just needs to bankroll the show and get his connections to open doors that are closed to MMA at the moment.
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As if Dana White, and Gary Shaw weren't enough...now we've got a promoter (Donald Trump) who is in it solely for the money.

Although I think a lot of stuff on sherdog is garbage...

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read it, and think about it.

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