2008-10-08T15:06:51-04:00 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/goldenboy_affliction-fc.jpg" alt="Goldenboy_affliction-fc" width="298" height="289" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes">Oscar De La Hoya and Tom Atencio, Getty; IconSMI</div> </div> <p><em>By Josh Gross, SI.com</em></p> <p>The initial <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/09/14/goldenboy.affliction/index.html">joint offering</a> between Affliction Entertainment and Golden Boy Promotions will feature solely mixed martial arts.</p> <p>Contrary to expectations of a dual sport event put forward by the MMA and boxing promotional companies, Affliction vice president <strong>Tom Atencio</strong> told SI.com that the debut effort, set for sometime in January 2009, won't mingle both combat sports.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Golden Boy "knows production," Atencio said. "They know the whole back-end. They can run a smoother event."</p> <p>Atencio also confirmed that <strong>Andrei Arlovski</strong> (14-5), who scored a <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/10/05/kimbo.knocked.out/index.html">technical knockout victory Saturday</a> against <strong>Roy</strong> <strong>Nelson</strong>, will compete. He declined to discuss other fighters appearing on the card, which, he said, is "coming along, almost finished."</p> <p>Sources tell SI.com top heavyweight <strong>Fedor Emelianenko</strong> (28-1, 1 NC) is also expected to fight</p> <p>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.</p> 2008-10-08T12:11:44-04:00 1 2008-10-08T12:11:44-04:00 1 1 10 2008-10-08T15:06:51-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/328/641/thumb/untitled2.bmp 21998 TX RobertMenn: You stole my rake San Antonio 329021 1 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. 3006004 1 <div class="photo_container image_right"> <div class="photo"><img src="http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/goldenboy_affliction-fc.jpg" alt="Goldenboy_affliction-fc" width="298" height="289" /></div> <div class="photo_attributes">Oscar De La Hoya and Tom Atencio, Getty; IconSMI</div> </div> <p><em>By Josh Gross, SI.com</em></p> <p>The initial <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/09/14/goldenboy.affliction/index.html">joint offering</a> between Affliction Entertainment and Golden Boy Promotions will feature solely mixed martial arts.</p> <p>Contrary to expectations of a dual sport event put forward by the MMA and boxing promotional companies, Affliction vice president <strong>Tom Atencio</strong> told SI.com that the debut effort, set for sometime in January 2009, won't mingle both combat sports.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Golden Boy "knows production," Atencio said. "They know the whole back-end. They can run a smoother event."</p> <p>Atencio also confirmed that <strong>Andrei Arlovski</strong> (14-5), who scored a <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/10/05/kimbo.knocked.out/index.html">technical knockout victory Saturday</a> against <strong>Roy</strong> <strong>Nelson</strong>, will compete. He declined to discuss other fighters appearing on the card, which, he said, is "coming along, almost finished."</p> <p>Sources tell SI.com top heavyweight <strong>Fedor Emelianenko</strong> (28-1, 1 NC) is also expected to fight</p> <p>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.</p> 12383 18 NY The SI Staff New York City 21244