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Affliction VP Tom Atencio Talks UFC 100, Lesnar's Antics, Trilogy Next Saturday & More
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Affliction VP Tom Atencio Talks UFC 100, Lesnar's Antics, Trilogy Next Saturday & MoreAffliction Entertainment Vice President Tom Atencio has been a busy man lately. In addition to defeating Randy Hedderick at Ultimate Chaos last month, he has his company's third major pay-per-view event - Affliction: Trilogy - coming up in less then two weeks. The event takes place on August 1, 2009, in Anaheim, California at the Honda Center and is headlined by WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko defending his title against Josh Barnett.

Atencio took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with Rod Moyer of FightLine.com. In part two of the interview below, Atencio talks about the big Trilogy event, his thoughts on UFC 100 and Brock Lesnar's post-fight antics, having a show without Fedor and more. Click here for part one of the interview, where he talks about what a day in his life is like, his feud with the UFC, Bobby Lashley possibly coming into Afflication and much more.

FightLine.com: August 1st, Affliction: Trilogy is coming up. It's your third event. There's a lot of speculation that this is going to be the last event that Affliction does.

Atencio: First and foremost, people have always been saying that we're not going to last. People said that after my first event, I wouldn't be here for a second. People said after the second, we wouldn't be here for a third. Once the third shows up, were going to re-evaluate everything, and announce what were going to do for the rest of the year, and what we're going to do after that.

FightLine.com: Josh Barnett faces Fedor Emelianenko at Affliction: Trilogy and told us that he's not scared of Fedor, and he plans on becoming the number one pound-for-pond fighter in the world. If Barnett wins, will you view him as the number one pound-for-pond fighter in the world?

Atencio: I don't see Josh being afraid of anybody, and yeah, I think if he beats Fedor, it will definitely catapult him up there and give him a lot of stardom. So yeah, that's why I'm so excited for this fight.

FightLine.com: Who do you consider to be the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world?

Atencio: Pound-for-pound right now, there's three fighters that are the best in the world. Fedor, George St. Pierre, and Anderson Silva, I think arguably are the best fighters in the world. They haven't been beaten recently, and I think their records speak for themselves.

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