Even though some of Arlovski’s latter fights in the UFC were lacking in excitement this is still a blow to the UFC’s heavyweight division. With Arlovski now gone, Randy Couture leaving or retiring, and Tim Sylvia also fighting for Affliction the UFC has seen 3 of the last 4 heavyweight champions leave the company within the last year.

On the other side of the coin it looks like Affliction has been able to put together arguably the best heavyweight division in MMA. With Fedor, Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski, Josh Barnett, Pedro Rizzo, and Ben Rothwell all signed Affliction won’t have a shortage of interesting heavyweight matchups for quite some time.

Also of note at tomorrow’s press conference will be the announcement that Donald Trump has become an equity partner in the Affliction promotion. Given the strong numbers Elite XC did on Saturday night for CBS I wouldn’t be surprised if another network gained a sudden interest in airing MMA programming. After fielding a pretty deep talent roster and adding Trump for some celebrity clout I would think Affliction is well situated should another network come calling.
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