Recently some people began suggesting that Golden Boy and Affliction would no longer copromote after coming across a blog by MMAMANIA that suggested the partnership is not so "golden" because the two companies decided not to feature both MMA and Boxing matches on the same card. The blog itself never indicates that the two companies will not copromote, instead it only verifies that Affliction and Golden Boy plan on copromoting MMA-only events at this time. Golden Boy Promotions will indeed help with the production and the promoting of Affliction MMA which was the initial plan.What fans don't realize is one major reason Affliction and Golden Boy are partnering up in the first place is because Dana White and the UFC threatened Las Vegas venues in a business move to keep them from advertising, promoting and/or broadcasting Affliction MMA or for that matter any other competitor to the UFC. Hence Affliction had to back out of their Las Vegas event on October 11th due to these dirty tactics by UFC executives. But the tables turned when Oscar De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Promotions jumped on board. Golden Boy has had far deeper influence on what goes on in Las Vegas then Dana White ever has. De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao sold out approximately 16,000 tickets for the event set to take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (HBO PPV) and did so for a gate of almost $17 million! Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture at best has done a $6 million gate for the UFC. In this business move with Golden Boy Promotions, Affliction is relieved of Dana White's tactics to remove any mentioning of them from Las Vegas venues. Let's just say Donald Trump and Tom Atencio did a very smart move by bringing Golden Boy on board.
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That would be Lorenzo Fertitta's tactics, not his employees. Although his employees approve and follow orders.
In addition, Fertitta made the move to buy Pride to keep Edward Fishman, who is in thick with every Las Vegas Casino and some in Macau, from building Pride into the fabric of the Las Vegas mma scene. The Pride brand, backed by the bigger casinos in Las Vegas, could have easily gained traction there. Fertitta of course would not want anything to shine a light on just how poor his production of mma really is.
Oh a second note:
I believe that bloggers like mmamania receive advertising dollars from zuffa, so it's no surprise that they try to plant stories that will discredit non-zuffa mma.
I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that those pictures of De La Hoya with a stripper directly correlate to his getting involved with mma. Didn't they suddenly appear around the time when we heard De La Hoya had interest in Affliction?
Either way it should be known that when pictures of someone and a stripper get out, somebody was paid off.
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