Affliction: Trilogy Canceled!
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Affliction: Trilogy has officially been canceled! Tom Atencio has called all the fighters and managers as of this morning to announce the bad news. Josh Barnett’s recent failure of his steroid test, has launched a large volume of criticism under the assumption that his failure CAUSED the cancellation. Surely this contributed to it’s cancellation, but not the only reason.
Said Affliction Entertainment VP Tom Atencio:
“”Finding an opponent for the number one ranked MMA heavyweight champion in such a short period of time was a huge endeavor and I’m thrilled at the amount of fighters willing to take on this challenge. But in the end, we just didn’t have enough time to promote a new fight to our standards.”
www.mmaweekly.com has reported that Showtime played some part in ultimately contributing the show’s cancellation.
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