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Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 12:15 pm EDT

Affliction pulls out all the stops to tweak UFC
By Steve Cofield


Fightlinker did a nice job of spotting the Affliction banner (above) quoting UFC president Dana White on Affliction 'Banned' headliner Fedor Emelianenko.
Clearly the gloves are off now that UFC has decided to program head-to-head against Affliction's July 19th pay-per-view in Anaheim.
UFC announced last week that its top fighter Anderson Silva will headline a card on Spike TV live from the Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort the same night. The Spike fight card costs $0 while Affliction's show is $39.95.
Now word comes that Affliction will engage in a battle of the billboards in UFC's backyard.
The apparel maker was looking around Las Vegas for closed

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