Jul 19 2008

Huge Night For MMA Fans New and Old

By Jeremy Schoemaker 47 comments

Saturday night has 2 awesome MMA events.

Affliction, the popular clothing brand, is putting on a very impressive Pay Per View card and also will be showing the Preliminary bouts for FREE on Fox Sports Network:

MAIN CARD (PPV)

* Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia
* Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell
* Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
* Renato “Babalu” Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead
* Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Nascimento
* Edwin Dewees vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
* J.J. Ambrose vs. Mike Pyle
* Ray Lazama vs. Justin Levens (swing bout)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FSN)

* Paul Buentello vs. Aleksander Emelianenko
* Vitor Belfort vs. Terry Martin
* Mark Hominick vs. Savant Young

For the new fan who does not want to invest in a pay-per-view the UFC is putting on a free show on Spike just to throw a small wrench into the Affliction Card:

MAIN CARD

* Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin
* Brandon Vera vs. Reese Andy
* Frankie Edgar vs. Hermes Franca
* Jake O’Brien vs. Cain Velasquez
* Kevin Burns vs. Anthony Johnson
* C.B. Dollaway vs. Jesse Taylor

PRELIMINARY CARD

* Tim Credeur vs. Cale Yarbrough
* Brodie Farber vs. Rory Markham
* Brad Blackburn vs. James Giboo
* Nate Loughran vs. Johnny Rees
* Shannon Gugerty vs. Dale Hartt

Viewing info:

For the first time on Spike TV - Watch LIVE nationwide at 6pm pacific time and 9pm eastern time.
In Canada - watch live on Rogers Sportsnet.
In the UK - watch live on Setanta Sports.
In AUSTRALIA - watch live on Fuel TV Sunday, July 20th at 11AM Local Time
On the Internet - Live on UFC® ON DEMAND™ (excluding U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, and Philippines).

big jason said on July 19th, 2008 at 7:13 am

cant wait to see silva vs the sandman. i predict silva will walk through irvin with no problem

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Marco said on July 19th, 2008 at 7:21 am

Agreed with ABOVE statement. I’m all about “THE SPIDER!”

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Pyjammez said on July 19th, 2008 at 7:49 am

Twil be an awesome day for us fans

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meethere said on July 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am

I am sure Silva will beat them all.. excited to watch them in action

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Tech Trendzi said on July 19th, 2008 at 8:29 am

i think the match will be interesting, but in the last Silva will have upper hand (may be :)) Enjoy weekend !!!

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funkysouth said on July 19th, 2008 at 8:47 am

Its going to be good..beer at ready

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browie said on July 19th, 2008 at 8:53 am

Not much of a MMA fan but I am glad that they are starting to put it on “Free” TV.

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Dave said on July 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am

To be honest, the only match I’m really looking forward to on the UFC card is Hermes and Edgar.. So I’ll have to tune away from Affliction for that one and then return

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Zak Show said on July 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am

That’s so cool, sounds it will rock tonight, exciting, hein!

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ajaz said on July 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am

Great idea to put the prelims on free TV. It will be interesting to see how much this increases the PPV viewership.

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RacerX said on July 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am

No listing of you favorites and bets??

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Shervin said on July 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am

I’m just getting into all this stuff. Impressive!

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Ash said on July 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Aleksander Emelianenko is out shoe… Didn’t meet med requirements Goodridge is replacing him.

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Andrew said on July 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

These picks are for entertainment purposes ONLY…Please no wagering

MAIN CARD (PPV)

* Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia (Pick: Sylvia)
* Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell (Pick: Rothwell)
* Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo (Pick: Rizzo)
* Renato “Babalu” Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead (Pick: Sobral)
* Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Nascimento (Pick: Lindland)
* Edwin Dewees vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (Pick: Nogueira)
* J.J. Ambrose vs. Mike Pyle (Pick: Ambrose)
* Ray Lazama vs. Justin Levens (swing bout) (Pick: Lazama)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FSN)

* Paul Buentello vs. Gary Goodridge (pick: Buentello)
* Vitor Belfort vs. Terry Martin (Pick: Martin)
* Mark Hominick vs. Savant Young (Pick: Young)

UFC MAIN CARD

* Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin (Pick: Silva)
* Brandon Vera vs. Reese Andy (Pick: Vera)
* Frankie Edgar vs. Hermes Franca (Pick: Edgar)
* Jake O’Brien vs. Cain Velasquez (Pick: Velasquez)
* Kevin Burns vs. Anthony Johnson (Pick: Johnson)
* C.B. Dollaway vs. Jesse Taylor (Pick: Taylor)

PRELIMINARY CARD

* Tim Credeur vs. Cale Yarbrough (Pick: Credeur)
* Brodie Farber vs. Rory Markham (Pick: Markham)
* Brad Blackburn vs. James Giboo (Pick: Blackburn)
* Nate Loughran vs. Johnny Rees (Pick: Rees)
* Shannon Gugerty vs. Dale Hartt (Pick: Hart)

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zack said on July 19th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Affliction could be a huge move forward for the sport. Loosens UFC’s grip on mainstream MMA.

Tim Sylvia for the win. The Miletich camp is tough.

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Zack - Amer1can Paratrooper said on July 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

going to be some hurtin’ going on tonight. what a great card.

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TEGS said on July 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Awesome, this is just another step for mixed martial arts becoming mainstream.

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Poker.vg said on July 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Nice to see you passing all the linkjuice from your site onto fighters. lol

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Movies said on July 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

not excited about this at all…anyway, I’m sure that for MMA fans is going to be an interesting night.

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Cashville said on July 19th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Should be a great night. I am going to opt for the free event since UFC seems to have a great card as well so no sense spending money. I think both events should be good ones, will be good to see fedor back at it, hopefully him and couture can get something worked out to fight, now that I would pay for. Great to see the fighters.com up and running will be making an account soon.

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Kyle said on July 19th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

whoa, it is a big night…i’ll surely catch a few of them tonight too.

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Popular Wealth said on July 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Not making any picks on tonights card Jeremy?

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Mike Saf said on July 19th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Very exciting roundup tonight. Ill be at my local bar watching both fights :-D!

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Diogo, D-Iglesias.com said on July 19th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

I have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about :S

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Tim said on July 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Nice to see Fedor fighting again

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Alex said on July 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Fedor will p0wn Sylvia

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KushMoney said on July 19th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

Shoemoney do you know when the next Kimbo Slice Fight?

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Daniel Feliciano said on July 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Awesome fight card. I’m looking forward to all of it most especially the Brandon Vera fight.

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Alex said on July 19th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Fedor p0wned Sylvia even faster than I thought.

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Dick said on July 20th, 2008 at 2:42 am

Fedor Emelianenko the best. It is a great fighter.

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Genewize said on July 20th, 2008 at 3:03 am

Fights were awesome! Silva STUCK Irvin - did you see the cut under his eye?
Seth Daley
Genewize

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jim said on July 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am

I think it’s great they’re showing these fights on regular (not ppv) tv now…

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Randomly Writing said on July 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am

A lot of those fights were good - that cut was UGLY. I really enjoyed the K.O. from Markham.

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Tim said on July 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Pretty boring ass fight though, eh?

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Tim said on July 20th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

How ’bout Andersdon?

Ele e o lutador o meior de tudo mundo. E muito legal e muito gentil. Nao se porque os Americanos nao gostam dele.

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Brian said on July 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

What is up with Silvia? I know Fedor is awesome, but come on. Dude didn’t even last 45 seconds! Which is about 40 longer than I would.

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Brian said on July 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

Sylvia sorry for the typo.

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Free List of 195 Keyword Suggestions said on July 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

Thanks, my son is really looking forward to this!

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PPC said on July 21st, 2008 at 6:15 am

So how did your predictions pan out? Living in Africa has its advantages, but viewing UFC bouts ain’t one of them!

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PPC said on July 21st, 2008 at 6:17 am

Let’s face it folks, the days of boxing are running out. Now what we need to do is to get amateur status for MMA, so the sport can be incorporated into the Olympics, etc. This will serve as a great feeder system for the Pro ranks.

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Geiger said on July 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am

The great thing about MMA and UFC is that nothing is a guarantee.

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Paul said on July 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pm

So the Syper kill that other guy.

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Web Marketeer said on July 22nd, 2008 at 1:45 am

Wish i lived in the States and was able to follow MMA. It sure is exciting, but not enough is being done to promote it internationally.

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Web Marketeer said on July 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 am

Now only if we could watch it in the rest of the world

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Chip said on July 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 am

I can watch MMA over satellite. I really like it.

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Eva White said on July 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm

hope it lived up to expectations.

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Светочка said on July 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am

Вообще, откровенно говоря, комментарии тут гораздо любопытней самих постов. (Не в обиду автору, конечно :))

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