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Affliction: Day Of Reckoning card continues to grow!

As you all know, Affliction will put on it's second promotion on October 11th in Las Vegas, titled "Day of Reckoning". The card is headlined by a great heavyweight bout between Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett, with the winner hopefully getting a shot at Fedor. The remained of the card looks like this:

Vladimir Matyushenko VS Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Ben Rothwell VS Pedro Rizzo

Jason High VS Mike Pyle

Paul Buentello VS Roy Nelson

Antonio Duarte VS Albert Rios

Chris Horodecki VS Dan Lauzon

Matt Lindland VS Trevor Prangley

Jay White VS Chase Gromley

Of course we were all expecting to see Renato "Babalu" Sobral take on Tito Ortiz on this card, but that fight is not looking like it will take place. Especially since Babalu will be fighting in a title fight on a Strikeforce card on September 20th. Also, rumored to be in the works is a fight between former IFL champion Jay Hieron and the ever controversial Drew Fickett.

All in all, it's shaping up to be a quality second promotion for Affliction.

Drew "Fickle" Fickett: The smartest man in MMA.

Wow... Drew Fickett had a very interesting interview MMARated.com. He discusses the situation that occured last week with his possible fight with Luke Stewart (filling in for Joe Riggs) and how it was nixed by the president of MFC. He also lets us know about the scathing voicemail that Mark Pavelich of MFC left for him when he found out about the possible Strikeforce fight.

Some very interesting topics include:

1. How Drew feels MMA is like skateboarding (????).

2. How Drew knows "for a fact" that steroids decrease your physical performance in a fight. (Does he realize what he just said / admitted to? I don't know... I'm not sure he realizes anything to be honest).

3. What happened with his on-again off-again fight with Jake Shields, and how he feels about the "fake ass" EliteXC title as Jake Shields (interesting comments from a guy that is seen as not wanting to fight Jake).

4. He and his girl trying to eat a FatBurger and going to see Ironman.

5. Apparently Drew considers himself a "freedom fighter". Right...

Listen to the interview here. Hilarious!