No opponent for Fedor, Affliction CANCELS “Trilogy”

Published on: 24th July, 2009

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Trilogy is officially done, is Affliction too ?

This is just crappy News for every MMA fan that was looking forward to next weekend’s “Trilogy” pay-per-view, the show has officially been cancelled by Affliction. Affliction issued a press release today and cited the main issue for the cancellation was finding a last minute opponent for Fedor Emelianenko after Josh Barnett tested positive for Steroids on short notice. Fans who purchased tickets can not go to the official Ticketmaster website for a full refund.

Press release:

Affliction Trilogy Cancelled

Seal Beach, California (July 24, 2009) – The highly anticipated fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Josh Barnett at the Affliction Trilogy MMA show has been cancelled. The mega fight was scheduled to take place at the Honda Center in Anaheim on August 1st. The unforeseen license denial of Josh Barnett gave Affliction limited time to find a replacement and adequately promote the new main event.

“Finding an opponent for the number one ranked MMA heavy weight champion in such a short period of time was a huge endeavor and I’m thrilled at the amount of fighters willing to take on this challenge,” said Tom Atencio, vice president of Affliction Entertainment. “But in the end, we just didn’t have enough time to promote a new fight to our standards.”

Affliction is deeply disappointed that the under card is also cancelled through no fault of its own. Affliction stands behind the company’s brands and delivers premium products to the most passionate and loyal customers. Affliction’s first priority is to ensure that all future events live up to the company’s high standards.

Ticket holders for the canceled event should contact Ticketmaster or ticketmaster.com for a refund.

There you go stick a fork in this pay-per-view and perhaps even Affliction as well. This is very disappointing News.

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Narcisist says:

July 24, 2009 at 1:57 pm (Quote)

Did Affliction cancel Trilogy to save the promotion long term, or did they just put the nail in their coffin?

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Hellboi says:

July 24, 2009 at 3:01 pm (Quote)

I can’t believe that instead of throwing every dollar they could at Brett Rogers they decided to cancel this show that is the second time in two events

Affliction won’t get me pumped up again for nothing

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- Fujita says:
  
  July 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm (Quote)
  
  @Hellboi, I think Coker is the one who scrubbed Rogers from the prespective card. Prolly don’t wanna have their own fighters lose so badly & lose pr for em after that, JMO.
  
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Vascular says:

July 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm (Quote)

Affliction just put the nail in the Coffin!

Fedor and Mousasi to the UFC.
Both fighter are pissed over the cancelation.

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Fujita says:

July 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm (Quote)

Josh screwed every one of those fighters out of food & pay by what he did. These guys gotta be out 20-40K each for training camp for this card. I’m not impressed with Josh man.

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keets kizzle says:

July 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm (Quote)

josh lost all respect in my eyes.

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- Fujita says:
  
  July 24, 2009 at 3:50 pm (Quote)
  
  @keets kizzle, Me too. You can bet all those fighters who lost pay will utterly hate the guy now too.
  
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Chiggs says:

July 24, 2009 at 5:06 pm (Quote)

From the sounds of it, it was/is out of Toms hands, which I dont doubt for a minute. Apparently Showtime decide to pull the plug due to Barnett failing is test and the promotion put into him. Either way it sucks an word has it is they are indeed folded and reconciled with the UFC :/ Perhaps the only decent thing to come out of it will be either UFC or Strikeforce purchasing the remaining fighters contracts which is apparently noone to many to begin with. All I can say is FUCK.

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Chiggs says:

July 24, 2009 at 5:26 pm (Quote)

WTF!!! Anyone else see Danas Twitter??? Tito is back in the fucking UFC!!!!!

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Fujita says:

July 24, 2009 at 5:29 pm (Quote)

This is like Kingdom Come for MMA huh. The comic.

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