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Affliction: Ready to Submit?

By Peter Keating

Monday, March 9, 2009

Hear that gurgling noise in the world of sports business? It's the sound of Affliction Entertainment, would be-rival to Ulitmate Fight Champion, getting strangled. I've been rooting for Affliction, the promotion company that Affliction Clothing spun off last year. Competition is always good -- and in the case of mixed martial arts, Affliction quadrupled payments to fighters to lure them from the UFC and was threatening to cut into the pay-per-view and event prices that the UFC could charge f ...

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