Affliction cancels Vegas card

Kevin Iole for the Yahoo! sports blog is reporting that Affliction will cancel its show planned for October 11th in Las Vegas. Word on the street is the fight will be moved to Anaheim in January. This isn't surprising considering the first show did roughly 100k PPV buys and many tickets were sold for $40 or given away free on the day of the fight. Dana White has predicted that Affliction will be out of the fight business by January.

Secret to Strikeforce's Success

Kevin Iole at Yahoo! Sports has a great article on Scott Coker and Strikeforce. Strikeforce has managed to avoid all of the pitfalls that have crushed the IFL, Bodog, and EliteXC (6 months from now). I think it is important to be positive and support promotions that counter the UFC. IF all of the rival promotions fail, we will be forced to buy PPVs every week and have no free options to watch this sport.

Rampage Resurfaces

Rampage gave Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports his first interview since his arrest on July 15th. In the interview when asked about ending his relationship with his former trainer Ibarra Rampage says, “That’s what hurts, I can’t say. You guys will find out soon enough.” Rampage is also quoted saying, “It is what it is. I don’t care about fights because I’m a fighter. That’s not going to be the last fight I lose. Who cares about that? I don’t care about winning the fight. Who cares? I’m going to come back, train hard and make more money.”

Check out the full article here.