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This is actually pretty big news because of who Trump is and all of his connections. Shaw, Ayre and Cuban don't have the same network connections. If Trump is going to get heavily involved in this there maybe great success for Affliction.

Affliction gear apparently made around 7+ million in 2006 so I would imagine they made around $40+ million in 07 since they weren't even very well known in 06 and were only founded in August of 05. The 07 numbers are pure speculation but using common sense given there was no major marketing in 06 and they made $7 mill so with all of the exposure they received in 07 you would assume they at least increased revenue by 500%.

Department stores are even carrying Affliction now (Dillards, maybe some others) so it's a household name and I would expect the same sickening numbers in 08 eventhough they can't advertise on the UFC any longer because they gained a huge following in 07 with all their UFC fighter sponsorships.

And all they're going to do now is just promote the crap out of their clothing line like they did with the UFC (all fighters and corners will be wearing Affliction).

It looks like they have the money to make it work but most importantly the connection, as long as Trump is in this to succeed since Trump is a legendary marketer.

I hope to see more of these types of cards in the future so I'm behind Affliction 100%.

Someone said something about saying "bye bye" to a stacked UFC roster if Afflcition is successful, well that could be true but think about it, the UFC HAS that roster now but waters down the cards in order to increase the number of events per year so it doesn't matter if they've got the roster if they're not using it.

With Afflcition, in thier debut cards it's going to surpass anything that the UFC has put on and with Dana's ego clouding his vision I really don't think we would have ever seen Fedor in the UFC fighting world class opponents, so this way we get to and we also get a ton of incredible matchups we have not seen yet.

With the UFC or any promotion that's been around a long time and has had the same elite roster the rematches begin to get a little stale (still great great fights so no complaints) and with rematches usually in that second fight we get the impression that the style vs style macthup has come into play and they've figured eachother out and know who's got the edge so it's not as intriguing so I'm glad that we will see fresh macthups and damn good ones at that.

And really I wouldn't worry about the UFC losing many names, they have their marque fighters and those guys aren't going anywhere. Adnerson, Rampage, GSP, Penn, Chuck, Wanderlei, Nog, Machida, their up and coming talent and a deep enough roster to keep their champions challenged.

If anything, it would be a huge plus for the fighters because free agents and 2 wealthy companies means bidding wars.