By Josh Gross, SI.com
The initial joint offering between Affliction Entertainment and Golden Boy Promotions will feature solely mixed martial arts.
Contrary to expectations of a dual sport event put forward by the MMA and boxing promotional companies, Affliction vice president Tom Atencio told SI.com that the debut effort, set for sometime in January 2009, won't mingle both combat sports.
Said Atencio, the partnership, which calls for quarterly events next year, is still a work in progress, though Golden Boy will heavily influence television and in-arena production.
Golden Boy "knows production," Atencio said. "They know the whole back-end. They can run a smoother event."
Atencio also confirmed that Andrei Arlovski (14-5), who scored a technical knockout victory Saturday against Roy Nelson, will compete. He declined to discuss other fighters appearing on the card, which, he said, is "coming along, almost finished."
Sources tell SI.com top heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko (28-1, 1 NC) is also expected to fight
An announcement of the pay-per-view lineup and venue, rumored to be the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., is expected in the next couple of weeks.
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Andrei fighting? Fedor fighting? Fighting each other? I would love to see it, but since I believe this is Andrei's last fight on the Affliction contract, I don't know they would risk Fedor falling to someone who would no doubt, take the fame of beating him straight back to the UFC.
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