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MMARated.com has learned that WAMMA
heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko will face Andrei Arlovski at the
upcoming Affliction show tentatively scheduled for January 24th in
Anaheim, Calif.
Atencio
also said that the promotion will officially announce the date,
location and main fights on the card sometime next week and that it
will be an MMA-only card but still co-promoted with Golden Boy
Promotions.
"We sat down with them and couldn't come up with a main event boxing match that everyone wanted," Atenco said.
Originally, it was announced that the January show would be a mixed boxing/MMA event.
Affliction's
second pay-per-view show entitled "Day of Reckoning" was supposed to
occur tomorrow but was cancelled last month after reported poor ticket
sales at the Thomas & Center in Las Vegas. Atencio did mention that
January's show will also be called "Day of Reckoning" and will be "more
stacked" than its original offering.
Arlovski defeated Roy Nelson at EliteXC:
Heat while Emelianenko last fought in July on the first-ever Affliction
show making quick work of former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 17 October 2008 )
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