At first there were rumors. Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia. Andrei Arlovski vs. Ben Rothwell. These rumors alone made the average MMA fan skeptical from the get go. But then it got even better. Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo. Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Negao. Babalu Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead. You can’t be serious, can you?

Affliction, the renowned clothing company that equips a number of athletes with these lush shirts, will have their first ever event named “Banned” on July 19th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The name of their event stems from when their products were banned from being worn by the UFC fighters by the profanity-laced UFC president Dana White. A couple of months later, they announced that they were launching an MMA organization. Instantaneously, they were being called a flop, a joke, and straight up imbeciles. With the main card that I mentioned above, they were slated to lose money…and we mean a LOT of money.

Day by day Affliction gained steam. For their first ever event, they have already sold nearly 10,000 tickets for the Honda Center. Now that my friends, is pretty amazing.

Donald Trump has now partnered with Affliction and is getting into the MMA game. Now whenever you have Trump on your side, you are slated to never go down without a major battle. Regardless, Affliction has done a tremendous job of pulling out a high profile production crew for this event.

World renowned legendary announcer Michael Buffer will be announcing the Affliction event. Megadeth will be performing. Big John McCarthy, Jay Glazer, and Frank Trigg will be commentating and the list simply goes on.

This is certainly the greatest MMA event in years with talent stacked from the preliminary card all the way to the main card. Here is how the card will look like:

Main Card (PPV - $39.95):
Fedor Emelianenko v. Tim Sylvia
Josh Barnett v. Pedro Rizzo
Andrei Arlovski v Ben Rothwell
Matt Lindland v Fabio Negao
Babalu Sobral v Mike Whitehead

Undercard (FOX Sports Net):
Aleksander Emelianenko v. Paul Buentello
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira v. Edwin Dewees
Vitor Belfort v. Terry Martin
Ray Lizama v. Justin Levens
Mike Pyle v. JJ Ambrose
Savant Young v. Mark Hominick