AFFLICTION TRILOGY; FEDOR VS BARNETT OFFICIAL

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Affliction on Friday made its third event, "Trilogy," official, via its official website. The posting on its site confirms the main event bout pitting current No. 1 ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko against No. 2 ranked Josh Barnett.

As previously reported, the event will take place on Aug. 1 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The main card bouts will be broadcast live on Showtime PPV with the undercard telecast live on HDNet.

Though the announcement does not make official any other fight pairings, it does indicate the participation of several fighters. Joining Emelianenko and Barnett are Gegard Mousasi, Ben Rothwell, Renato "Babalu" Sobral, Tim Sylvia, Mark Hominick, Dan Lauzon, Chris Horodecki, and Paul Buentello.

Mousasi and Belfort are in negotiations to fight each other on the card, but are having difficulty agreeing on what weight to fight at. Mousasi has publicly stated that he can no longer make the weight cut to 185 pounds, while Belfort is reluctant to move up from the class he has recently declared his new home.

While confirmation is still forthcoming, it has been widely speculated that Sylvia will face Buentello on Aug. 1 and Lauzon will hook up with Horodecki.

Although neither was included on Friday's announcement, MMAPayout.com recently reported that Jay Hieron and Paul Daley will square off at Trilogy.
 
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looking forward to fedor/barnett about i dont know how many times i can keep watching some of these other fights. no other names are really pulling me in to these affliction events. they need some more fighters to mix things up.
 
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They usually have some good names on the card, but I doubt they'll be getting any new big names to sign a contract for this one.. Especially since this is in all likelyhood, there last show.
 
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About fucking time this fight happens. If Fedor wins this fight, which I definitely think he will, then I don't really see much left for him to do. I'd like to see him stick around but I wonder who they'd fight, besides maybe AO or some shit.
 
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Babalu vs. Mousasi Confirmed for Affliction Trilogy

Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Renato "Babalu" Sobral will face Gegard Mousasi at Affliction 3 on Aug. 1 in Anaheim, Calif.

The bout was initially announced by M-1 Global on its website on Monday. MMAWeekly.com subsequently confirmed the bout with Sobral's manager, Richard Wilner, who said, "It will be a light heavyweight bout, not a catchweight."

Mousasi had originally planned to fight Vitor Belfort in a catchweight at the event, dubbed "Trilogy," confirming the bout on the M-1 Global website last week. The bout had apparently been talked about, but Belfort did not want to move up out of his new home at middleweight, while Mousasi has repeatedly stated that he can no longer make the 185-pound limit.

Sobral has been on a roll as of late, winning five straight bouts, including the capture of the Strikeforce light heavyweight championship from Bobby Southworth last November. He most recently defeated Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou at Affliction's sophomore effort in January.

Sobral had been in plans to face Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante for Strikeforce on June 6, but had to withdraw due to familial considerations. Wilner says that Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker has been nothing short of "wonderful" to work with, and has "always been a man of his word" in supporting big fights such as this. Plans now call for Sobral to return to Strikeforce shortly after Affliction 3 to defend his title.

Considered one of the top middleweight fighters in the world, Mousasi recently vacated the Dream middleweight championship and made the move out of the weight class to fight in Dream's openweight "Super Hulk" tournament, defeating Mark Hunt in the first round of their quarterfinal bout. He weighed in at 218 pounds for that bout, but will have to come back down to 205 for the fight with Sobral.

The bout is expected to be officially released later this week at press conferences in New York and Los Angeles confirming the Aug. 1 event. No. 1 ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko is set to face No. 2 ranked Josh Barnett in the main event of Affliction "Trilogy."
http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=8877&zoneid=2

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This is awesome, everyone wants to see how Mousasi's gonna do at LHW and he gets a top 10 guy his first real fight. If they can get one more big fight this card's going to be fantastic.
 
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