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Affliction News: Vitor Belfort Dropped From Fight With Lindland On Oct. 11
By CagE | August 15, 2008
After suffering a broken hand at “Affliction Banned“, Vitor Belfort will not be able to fight a the upcoming Affliction 2 “Day of Reckoning” show on Oct. 11, according to Affliction VP Tom Atencio in a interview with MMAWeekly radio.
“Vitor is out, I spoke with him I think yesterday and he told me. Actually, it was on Tuesday we had a conversation for about an hour or so and yeah, I guess he broke his hand in two places is what he told me and he had been having 2, 3 and 4 opinions on it. He finally got the opinion that he wanted I guess and they told him to step out for a while.”
This leaves little time for Affliction to find a replacement to fight Matt “The Law” Lindland on the Oct. 11th card.
Jake Shields spoke earlier in the week that his fight with John Alessio at “EliteXC Showdown” was not a done deal and he is currently fielding an offer by another promotion to fight a top 185lb fighter. Could Affliction be courting Shields to take on the “Law” on the main card? Here’s a clip of what Shields had to say:
“Right now I have a really good offer on the table to fight a top 185-pounder,” Shields stated. “I’m just waiting, hoping Elite (XC) will give me that opportunity to go out there and represent Elite and test myself.
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Topics: Affliction, News |
August 15th, 2008 at 9:22 am
that sucks… vitor is a badass but i hope jake take the fight4
August 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
This was the only other interesting fight on the next affliction card.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am
the only interesting fight?i liked the match up but it probally would have been a boring fight with lindland controlling vitor the whole time, your not interested in barnett vs aa?plus i think shields vs lindland would be even better.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
oh i didn’t see your other, but there is some other good match ups they are putting together.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I think Vladdy/Little Nog could be good. I’d watch Shields/Lindland, both are very technical fighters.
At the end of the day though, regardless of the undercard, i’ll buy the PPV simply to watch AA take on Barnett. That should be a great, strategical fight.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Check this out from the UFC…..
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/your-ufc-questions-answered/#more-2956
August 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Check out this one too from Sports Illustrated..
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/ben_fowlkes/08/11/brock.lesnar/index.html?eref=sircrc
August 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am
do you have to put it on every thread tim
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
How is either of those relevant?…
Im not familiar with Shields, ill look into him, i was looking forward to vitor possibly knocking lindland out for being boring
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Its not relevant i was just you all some info…ya i wanted to prove a point and get the word out on those two articles.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
jake shields is the best ww outside of the ufc,he could beat most of the guys in the ufc not named gsp he is a more well rounded fighter than belfort and could hang on the ground with lindland making for a better fight.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
yeah shields should be brought into the UFC just so he can fight alves with the winner getting the winer of gsp vs penn.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
not sayin that shields could hang with bj or gsp but he could beat the shit out of the wannabe top3’s in the divsion. Koscheck , Diego, Fitch,Karo…
August 15th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
he thinks he can hang with gsp, i am not sure about that either but i would love to see if he could.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Well if he keeps winning then it will eventually happen.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
what the hell is happening to affliction fighters. they are losing all of their good matchups. they lost babalu, fedor, probably tito, and now vitor. i agree any lindland fight is probably going to be boring so i was hoping vitor would be able to fight. i hope barnett and arlovski still happens.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
They didn’t lose Fedor for good and I didn’t know they lost Babalu.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Babalu signed on to fight in Strikeforce for the title instead of fighting for Affliction. Yeah, didn’t lose the fighters for good but they are losing a lot because of injuries. And Tito is hard to sign regardless.