If you haven’t been around the past few days, I’ll catch you up on the recent MMA News hitting wires. Affliction Trilogy folded their promotion that was set for August 1st, due to heavyweight challenger, Josh Barnett testing positive for steroids in California. Furthermore, it was announced that Affliction was done with promotions and handed […]

Sherdog.com caught up with Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker on the rumored Afflction-Strikeforce merger that went south and possible match-ups Strikeforce can offer up for the #1 World Heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCS3epvoddw

Wow, its refreshing to hear that Scott Coker and Strikeforce have their s%!& together.   If this guy starts throwing some f-bombs around, he could be […]

Jim Rome has Brock Lesnar on his radio show last week and discusses his WWE antics after his dominant performance over Frank Mir at UFC 100, a potential Fedor match-up, and the ridiculous tatoo on his chest.  You must listen.  Great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abXTI6Chyik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFAvjboDw6U

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It appears Strikeforce is the first to officially act on the sudden death of Affliction Entertainment.
Renato “Babalu” Sobral (35-8) vs Gegard Mousasi (25-2-1), originally scheduled as part of the Affliction Trilogy card and since cancelled, has been revitalized and will be contested with Sobral’s STRIKEFORCE World Light Heavyweight (205 pounds) Championship on the line at […]

According to Rich Franklin’s twitter page on Saturday,
“Ive heard the ufc pulled my fight off the website for 103,” tweeted Franklin. “I don’t kno y. They hvnt spoken to me @ this, n i assume the fight is still on.”
Translation: Hendo-Franklin is 99% off for UFC 103.
Expect Tito Ortiz to fill in for Hendo or […]

‘MMA CITY’ reported yesterday that after the cancellation of an upcoming promotion, Affliction Entertainment was in negotiations with the UFC. Per ‘MMA Junkie’ the news of Affliction’s collaboration with Zuffa is now official!

Affliction will no longer run MMA promotions but instead will return to the UFC as an official sponsor. Before, when Affliction crossed the […]

With the sudden downfall of Affliction due to the cancelled fight of its headliner Trilogy event, Fedor vs. Barnett, the UFC is quickly scooping up the pieces and has reached a deal with Affliction to become a sponsor in the UFC and possibly take on the contracts of its fighters.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports first […]

(Sherdog.com)

Horrible news for Affliction Entertainment was announced the other day regarding Josh Barnett’s random drug test results, issued by the California State Athletic Commission. Barnett tested positive for a banned performance enhancement substance that quickly led to his withdraw from Affliction Trilogy’s headlining event bout against Fedor Emelianenko.

The past few days have been fuzzy as […]

In the wake of Josh Barnett flunking his piss test, Don “The Predator” Frye (20-7-1), of former K-1 and Pride days, has put his name out there as a contender to take on the world’s #1 heavyweight.   Frye told MMAWeekly
“If Tom (Atencio) was smart, he’d have me fighting Fedor instead of whoever he’s […]

According to Fanhouse.com, Josh Barnett was the recipient of the first random drug test associated with receiving a license to fight by the California State Athletic Commission.   The tests are common in Nevada, but this is the first of its kind in California.  The sample, tested at the World Anti-Doping Agency lab in UCLA, was […]