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It looks like the story of Todd Beard is coming to a close. According to a press release on MarketWatch.com, Affliction has received and accepted the Affliction co-founder’s resignation.

SEAL BEACH, Calif., Nov 14, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The board of directors of Affliction Inc. announced today that it received and accepted the resignation of Todd Beard as an employee of the company. Mr. Beard is one of the original founders of the clothing company based in Seal Beach, California. The resignation coincides with a public apology for comments made by Mr. Beard and directed toward Randy Couture and his wife Kim Couture regarding their business relationship.

Steve Cofield did this lengthy interview with Randy Couture. One of the more interesting parts of it is when Cofield asks Randy about his relationship with Affliction and its co-founder Todd Beard. Here’s what he said:

Things will come out the way they come out, but I don’t intend to do anymore business with Todd or Affliction in any way. Whether or not they still manufacture the [Xtreme Couture] line down the road or not is still yet to be seen. But, you know, guys with drinking problems is what it boils down to. I’ve seen at several different professional meetings, business manager meetings, where he’s ordering shots and just out of control, and that’s not something I really want to be associated with.

Any small amount of optimism I might have had left for Affliction is officially gone.

In part two (after the jump) Randy talks about Brock Lesnar blowing up over the steroid questions and how he intends to use Brock’s short fuse against him.

More Todd Beard talk, but the question of if that actually was Beard on The Scott Ferrall Show still lingers. Literally everybody is reporting it as Beard, but was it just an error in one media report and it snowballed from there? I wouldn’t think twice if Dana White hadn’t refuted it, and basically made the guy out to be a nobody who owns a Men’s Wearhouse, but wouldn’t he know if it was Beard or not? Somehow this guy’s affiliated with Affliction, but it would be nice to get some kind of confirmation from them in case the media is blasting the wrong guy. If we’ve missed that, please let us know.

Haven’t had a chance to listen to the whole interview yet, but Dana and the Tapout Radio crew start talking about Scott Ferrall and the interview he did with the Affliction guys about a minute into it. White claims the guy who made all the statements about the UFC, Lorenzo Fertitta, and Station Casinos was not Todd Beard. He didn’t say his name, but did say he’s “a little fat prick who owns a Men’s Wearhouse or something like that.” Dana did say that this guy was in the meeting from three weeks, so he’s apparently affiliated with Affliction somehow. I’ll let you know if I figure out who this guy really is.