Ultimate Fight Night to Rival Affliction

Dana White must have felt a little heat when he saw the fight card for Afflictions first event scheduled to take place on July 19th.

He has scheduled a decent fight card on the same night live on SpikeTV, which also has the debut of Middleweight champ Anderson Silva making his lightheavyweight debut when he takes on James Irvin. The fight is a bit gimmickie but it will draw viewers which will certainly combat Afflictions 'Banned' which is on pay per view.

The UFC is the only organization that has the money and star power to combat rival organizations fight cards. This could make things very interesting over the next couple years as Dana White will always be looking for events to out do other organizations. It could make for some good fight cards in the future, that is until the UFC monopolizes MMA.

Affliction has some big names on the fight card but most of the fights are pretty lopsided on paper.

Main Card:

Fedor Emelianenko (27-1) vs. Tim Sylvia (24-4)
Andrei Arlovski (12-5) vs. Ben Rothwell (29-5)
Josh Barnett (21-5) vs. Pedro Rizzo (16-7)
Matt Lindland (20-5) vs. Fabio Negao (8-3)
Renato 'Babalu' Sobral (29-7) vs. Mike Whitehead (20-5)
Aleksander Emelianenko (13-3) vs. Paul Buentello (25-10)