UFC Tries to Make Affliction Look Bad, Shows Jason Lambert KO Babalu

Filed under: Affliction, UFCUFC President Dana White is at it again.In May, we noted that UFC tried to make rival EliteXC look bad by televising a Spike show that included EliteXC's best fighter, Robbie Lawler, getting knocked out in a UFC fight.Now UFC wants to make the rival Affliction promotion look bad before its pay-per-view debut today, so this afternoon's Spike programming includes an old UFC fight in which Jason Lambert knocked out Renato "Babalu" Sobral. Sobral is part of tonight's Affliction show.A lot of fans don't like White's methods, but it's hard to blame him for offering exactly this kind of counter-programming. UFC's vast library includes thousands of fights, and almost every noteworthy MMA fighter in the world has lost at least once in a fight that UFC owns the broadcast rights to. That means that every fighter who fights for a rival promotion had better be ready to see himself lose on Spike. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments more...