"Too many beginning promoters want to be like Bob Arum. They want to be like Don King. They think, 'I've got to get a name fighter,'....“They spend way too much on fighters, more than they have to."
--Promoter Roy Englebrecht, Co-Promoter of Affliction: Banned, espousing his views on why a lot of beginning promoters lose money.
Mr Englebrecht, Chancellor over at the Fight Promoter University, has generally made his name in combat promoting by preaching the principles of starting small, working within a budget, and generating small but positive cash flow event after event. These maxims for promoting success seem to be an anathema to the Affliction game plan, which seems to be big names and an even bigger budget. The fight business makes for strange bedfellows.
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