Today's News - Affliction Press Conferences in Los Angeles and New York, Diaz to fight for DREAM championship, Hamill's early life to be made into a movie, and Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy signs with the UFC

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Affliction Press Conferences in Los Angeles and New York, Diaz to fight for DREAM cham

pionship, Hamillâ€™s early life to be made into a movie, and Dan â€˜The Outlawâ€™ Hardy signs with the UFC

Affliction: "Banned" Press Conferences in Los Angeles and New York

Affliction announced today that it would be holding press conferences in Los Angeles and New York for its upcoming "Banned" event which takes place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA.

The press conference will be open to the public and among those in attendance will be Fedor "The Last Emperor" Emelianenko, Tim The Maniac" Sylvia, Josh Barnett, Pedro Rizzo, Ben Rothwell, Matt Lindland, Renato Sobral, and more.

The Los Angeles event will take place at:
Tuesday, May 20 th 12:30PM/PT
Westfield Mall in Century City (Food Court)
10250 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90067

The New York event will take place at:
May 22 nd 10:30 AM/ET
Trump Tower
725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Diaz to fight for DREAM championship

Nick Diaz is set to fight Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (32-8-2) for the first ever DREAM welterweight championship. Diaz recently faced former welterweight King of Pancrase Katsuya Inoue on last Sunday's DREAM 3 event and won by TKO in the first round.

Diaz and Sakurai are set to meet on July 21st at DREAM 5 in Osaka, Japan.

Matt Hamill's early life to be made into a movie

Matt Hamill will be the subject of a movie entitled "Hamill" which will focus on the fighter's early years. The movie has already received some criticism from the deaf community as the actor chosen to play Hamill is not deaf.

Hamill had this to stay in a recent UFC.com story regarding the movie: "I was really shocked by the reaction," said Hamill. "I thought the movie would receive positive feedback from the deaf community because this movie is based on a deaf athlete and the life surrounding his deafness. It hurt at first, but I've come to realize that this is a small portion of the deaf community. With positive things, comes the negative things. If anything, it has kept me grounded."

Eben Kostbar has been chosen to play Hamill and just like the person he portrays Kostbar also has a background in wrestling and is fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). This was one of the reasons Hamill wanted Kostbar to be the actor to play him.

Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy Signs with The UFC

The UFC announced today via its website UFC.com that Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy had signed with the UFC. Hardy sports a 19-6-1 record and is being touted as one of Europe's top welterweights. No date has been set for Hardy's debut.

Hardy had this to say regarding his signing:
"I feel I've come to the UFC at exactly the right time," he said. "Since the UFC came back to England last spring, everywhere I've gone people have asked me when I was going to sign with the UFC and why I wasn't in the UFC yet. "

"The plan was always to fight in the UFC when I felt I was 100% ready. But there were things I felt, as a fighter, I needed to work on before I made my UFC debut. I probably could have fought in the UFC before now, but I wanted to work on my skills, my BJJ and my wrestling. I have trained as a striker since I was six years old, but have really worked very hard on my ground game over the last four years, including working with Eddie Bravo out in the States, and I feel I've got one of the most well rounded games of any fighter in Europe."

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