Listen to yourself! “Affliction to you is better because you’re a stakeholder.” Like, what? Being a fan of MMA makes me, uhh, a fan of MMA, and as such I like fights that are not crappy. Affliction has fights that are not crappy, albiet make no money. Strikeforce makes money, in large part, because most of the card is crappy and is anchored by a single draw. Is there supposed to be a more objective view?

What the hell are you talking about? Do you even know what the hell a stakeholder is?

Seriously, none of your arguments make any sense.

Because I think Bob Sapp and Maurice Smith in 2008 suck? I mean, really, because Billy Evangelista fights for a promotion that will be in business tomorrow, that should matter more to me than Fedor Emelianenko fighting Andrei Arlovski? Christ dude, its not 1999, this isn’t pro wrestling, and you don’t need to pick sides.

That makes you a stakeholder, even if you’d rather not admit it.

Thats a very nice straw man you’ve put up there.

I’m not a stakeholder in either. I watch fights. I prefer to watch good ones. Affliction has better fights than Strikeforce. Point blank. I’m not going to pretend that Bob Sapp/Jan Nortje is better than Fedor/Arlovski because of how well it ran into the black.

Stakeholder: An individual or group with an interest in the success of an organization in delivering intended results and maintaining the viability of the organization’s products and services.

You seem to have a stake in Affliction, if you are so unimpressed by Strikeforce’s offerings. So why do you choose to ignore Affliction’s shoddy business practices? You can pretend you don’t care, but that doesn’t mean it won’t affect you when Affliction goes out of business.

The worst situation they have had saw them near the break even mark, with most of the shows making them money.

Umm, I don’t care.

Strikeforce has had a mix of good and bad cards, like any other promotion.

The mix is strongly in favor of “bad”. Melendez/Thomson was a one fight card. Tacoma Dome was a horrible show. Payback, Destruction, and the Mansion show were all mediocre at best. Seriously. Strikeforce has Babalu and he fights Bobby Southworth, and for that people act like it was great. Affliction has Babalu fight Sokoudjou and Atencio is the devil or something.

The worst situation they have had saw them near the break even mark, with most of the shows making them money.

Strikeforce has had a mix of good and bad cards, like any other promotion.

I don’t know if I’ll die soon. No one does. And frankly, I don’t have any stake in what fights take place a year from now. It isn’t my decision to make nor will it ever be. What I do want to see are good fights. Watching Jeremiah Metcalf fight the “Michael Jordan of the WCL” need not even attempt to qualify.