Affliction Autograph Signing

If you are in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, you might want to head down the Century City Mall for Affliction's promotional autograph signing.

Fighters booked to be there include Fedor Emelianenko, Tim Sylvia, Fabio Negao, Ben Rothwell, Matt Lindland, Mike Whitehead, Babalu Sobral, Josh Barnett and Pedro Rizzo. Perhaps the most exciting news to fans is that they also list a mystery fighter to appear at the event. Based on this week's rumors, there is a distinct possibility that this fighter could be Andre Arlovski, who is thought to be joining the promotion on the 19th May, if the UFC don't come up with a suitable contract offer.

This event will definately be worth checking out. If I wasn't on a completely different continent, I'd be there along side all you lucky people! As an added incentive, the first 500 people to attend will be given a free Affliction T-shirt. If anyone makes it to this event, please pop here and leave comments to let all us unlucky ones know how it went.

Affliction Announce Fights For First Show

New promotion Affliction, run by the clothing company of the same name, has announced some of their fights for their fight card.

Headlining the event will be the now official fight between UFC Veteran Tim Sylvia, and former Pride Heavyweight Champ Fedor Emelianenko. This will be Fedor's first real test since he left Pride.

The co-main event is Josh Barnett versus Pedro Rizzo. While many think of Rizzo as an old fighter past his prime, this is not the case, and will be a tough fight for Barnett, who will be looking to avenge a previous loss to Rizzo.

The event is expected to take place in California on July 19th. The fight card to date looks like this:

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia
Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao
Renato Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead
Aleksander Emelianenko vs. Paul Buentello (not yet official)
Ben Rothwell vs. TBA
Mark Hominick vs. Savant Young
Justin Levens vs. Ray Lazama
Mike Pyle vs. Brett Cooper
J.J. Ambrose vs. Patrick Speight

Tim Sylvia Makes Adrenaline Debut At Second Show

New promotion Adrenaline recently signed former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia, but they won't be using him in their first show, despite him being the biggest name on their books to date.

Instead, Sylvia will fight at Adrenaline 2 in September, leaving him free to fight number 1 ranked heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko in July. This fight is expected to take place under the banner of another new promotion, run by Affliction clothing company.

Also scheduled to fight on the 2nd Adrenaline card is former IFL heavyweight Ben Rothwell. No opponent has been named for either fighter.