UFC to Ban Affliction Gear?

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently the UFC is no longer going to allow Affliction to sponsor it's fighters. Affliction affiliated fighters include; Randy Couture, Georges St. Pierre, Rampage Jackson and Chuck Liddell among many others.

    According to numerous sources within in the industry, Affliction will be starting it's own promotion and the UFC is unhappy about promoting a potential rival.</div>
    http://mmafightline.com/news/2008/125/ufc_314536.shtml
     
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    while it does sound kinda petty, if it's true that affliction is starting their own org, then it makes good business sense to ban their clothes being advertised at UFC events.
     
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    Probably doesn't like the fact Randy wears it. Seems extreme to flat out ban the brand. Why not just put tape on the name or fuzz it out with the cameras like other TV shows do?
     
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    It's ugly and cliche at this point anyways.
     
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    Yea, it does make sense not to have your fighters advertising your rival. I don't think they did this b/c of Couture, b/c they love GSP, Rampage and Liddell.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (speeds @ Jan 25 2008, 04:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's ugly and cliche at this point anyways.</div>
    does that mean my Punishment Athletics T-shirt is kool?
    Tito autographed it for me [​IMG]
     
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