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CBS, EliteXC, and You

Posted by Lee Casebolt on 5th March 2008

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 By Lee Casebolt

Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, I presume you’ve heard about the deal between the CBS television network and MMA wannabe player ProElite, parent company of EliteXC.  The announcement has garnered a fair amount of response amongst the MMA congnoscenti, ranging from the moderately positive to the outraged.  On the one hand, you have those who see an enlarged market for the sport of mixed martial arts, with all of the opportunities that brings.  On the other, you have those who see Kimbo Slice, face of MMA, and are (justifiably) terrified.

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UFC vs … UFC?!: The Company Grows while the Paydays Stagnate and Fighters Begin to Look Elsewhere

Posted by Dave Walsh on 3rd March 2008

By Dave Walsh

Sick of the UFC/Zuffa Empire? Frothing at the mouth over the possibility of Tim Sylvia hugging people in a different ring or Andrei Arlovski smashing people in Japan? Talk about it at our forum

When thinking about MMA right now, its impossible, absolutely impossible to not think of Zuffa’s bastard adopted child, The Ultimate Fighting Championship. Originally a labor of love, once the heat came, things went dark for a while. It took Zuffa buying the company out, with the casino mogul Fertita brothers and former aerobic kickboxing instructor and fight manager Dana White at the helm. Since then the company and the sport in general have seen tremendous growth not only in its fan base, but mainstream acceptance (well, still working on that one) and in profits as well. UFC, at this point, is right up there competing with, if not surpassing boxing and WWE when it comes to PPV revenues and for live gates. While they might not be matching the numbers for the big boxing events, that is mainly due to how boxing events are promoted compared to UFC. UFC has monthly $50 PPVs, and honestly, the fact that they sell as many PPVs as they do is just a testament to how popular the sport has gotten.

 

The only problem is that as the sport grows the money starts flooding in and the pay the fighters are receiving stagnates.

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Elite XC: What’s In An Image Anyways?

Posted by Bill Thompson on 17th February 2008

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By: Bill Thompson

EXC wants to be taken seriously, they want to be viewed as an equal to the UFC. A part of being taken seriously is that you have to appear to be serious. Being a rather big promotion like EXC is I am sure that somewhere along the line the memo that stated this fact was lost. Should EXC be taken seriously, or are they nothing more than a freak show promotion? I believe they should be taken seriously, but a quick poll of MMA fans will show myself to be in the minority on this issue. There are a few minor ways that EXC can change this stigma and make it so that they are a promotion that the MMA world feels should be taken seriously.
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EliteXC Street Certified Live BLOG!

Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 17th February 2008

I am very excited for this show. The Tank-Kimbo main event is legitimately intriguing. We learned from Ultimate Tank Abbott that no matter what happens Tank will have “the W in life.”

From the street to Elite! STREET CERTIFIED!

Stephen Quadros, Mauro Ranallo and Bill Goldberg. This may be the worst announce team in history. Quadros is claiming:

A. Most new fans know Tank from watching him bench press on the internet and
B. That Tank is in shape for the fight.

We will see.

James Thompson v. Brett Rogers:

Thompson charges out immediately and looks for the takedown instead of exchanging blows. Mauro says Thompson has a glass jaw and Quadros gets a little fired up. Rogers, of course immediately knocks him out. After the fight Rogers does the worst dance in the history of dances. “Wobble Wobble.” Rogers may actually be a guy from bumfights.

MAURO RANALLO SAYS EVERYTHING LIKE HE IS YELLING! EVERYTHING! He also has a horrible “black person” imitation that is semi-offensive.

Yves Edwards v. Edson Berto

Edwards does a long interview about how sexy he is. I’m now actively rooting for the other guy. Conan Silviera is in Yves corner and looks to be a Super Heavyweight.

Nice back and forth fight with some nice work on the ground and standing. Edwards ends it with a spectacular knee to the jaw from the clinch. The Urijah Faber special.

Scott Smith v. Kyle Noke

The Aussie. Not much of a nickname. He was the bodyguard for Steve Irwin, so he failed in his first career. Smith is a guy from the Ultimate Fighter.

Goldberg said it was a pleasure to watch these guys bang. Could his show be gayer? Smith has on nice nice baby blue shorts to continue on a theme. Crowd is saying Boo-Urns. Wait, they are booing the lack of action.

Seven seconds into Round 2 and Smith kills Noke dead. Smith adds an unnecessary cheap show to seal the deal. Goldberg say he rearranged his DNA? He will join the Croc Hunter in a better place. Smith’s boys couldn’t be there because their belly button rings got infected. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Penultimate match: Ricco Rodriguez v. Antonio Silva

Ricco looks fat, but not obese fat. Goldberg says he is a good fighter but not a good human being. Ouch. Mauro used the word “alacrity,” incorrectly, but he impressed his Neanderthal booth mates.

Silva has a giant tattoo of a Big Foot on his back. I take back what I said earlier. Ricco looks to be in good shape for this, well, until he moves. Then the jiggling begins. Silva is the ugliest man in this or any sport.

Ricco is jiggling everywhere in this and his belly is hanging over his shorts. Silva is snapping his head back throughout the round, until Ricco finally gets a takedown with less than two minutes remaining. Ricco just added a blackbelt from ATT he bought online for $10. So his credentials are improving. First round to Silva.

Silva dominates the second round. Ricco gets a cut and tells the ref he can’t see. He’s trying to get them to stop the fight but the Doctor is like “You can still fight pussy.” Borderline 10-8 round.

Silva gets a takedown and Ricco never even tries to defend. Silva is showing no fear of Ricco on the ground and Ricco is getting beaten down. Ricco comes on strong and may have taken the third round in which Silva did very little. Ranallo hates Ricco! And Quadros calls him a “cockroach.” Man EliteXC is not happy with Ricco taking it to Silva. Mauro has experience as a pudding eating judge. Ricco wasn’t there. Silva wins a much delayed split decision. Just enough time for Gary Shaw to bribe the judges.

Tank Abbott v. Kimbo Slice

Kimbo is the STREET FIGHTING STAR OF THE INTERNET! Kimbo wins in 43 seconds. This was pure toughman shit. Let’s see Kimbo against someone who isn’t a 43 year old bar fighter. Tank Flair flops after the first punch that connects. Well, I feel disappointed. Showtime apparently wants Kimbo to fight Ken Shamrock. Apparently Kimbo is contractually obligated to fight every octogenarian in the sport.

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Making Sense of the Lightweight Division - Part Two

Posted by Marc Staehling on 29th January 2008

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ShoXC Live Blog

Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 26th January 2008

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Frank Shamrock joins my boys the Fight Professor Stephen Quadros and former Total MMA columnist Mauro Ranallo on commentary.

Showtime Bouts

Kala Kolohe Hose vs. Frederic Belleton

Frederic Belleton wants to weeeeen. I want him to win too. He is a savate player, so he can take solace in the fact that Gerard Gordeau represented his art with honor. Except for the eye gouging. Hose is a Hawaiian brawler. Hard to believe, I know. He has a checkerboard on his chest. Seriously. A huge checkerboard. (Apparently a Hawaiian cultural thing. h/t Hackett)

Hose lands a series of body shots early but is gassed in the first half of the first round. The gas tank of a young Tank Abbott. Ends it with a brutal KO. Belleton was overmatched here. The KO made Frank giggle. “The knockout was so nice we showed it twice.” Ranallo is such a goof. Quadros tries to get Hose to call out Robbie Lawler. He doesn’t want any part of that.

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In Defense of Ken Shamrock

Posted by Lee Casebolt on 16th January 2008

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By Lee Casebolt
Once he was referred to, derogatorily, as “Ken Shamroid,” a reference to his sculpted – but suspect – physique in a sport he then co-dominated with a lanky Brazilian and a doughy wrestler. Now he is mocked as “Can Shamrock” due to his greatly diminished skills. Ken Shamrock has been derided for winning fights (“work!”), losing fights (“Petey, my heart!”), neither winning nor losing a fight (“boring!”), and making some admittedly unfortunate facial hair decisions. From the height of his powers to the depths of his (relative) dotage, Ken Shamrock can’t get a break.

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News of the Day

Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 12th January 2008

Baroni to Japan

Like last time he was beaten up on US soil, Baroni will run to Japan to try to reestablish himself as a force at 185.

Gary Shaw rips Dana White

This would mean more if Gary Shaw was not also losing money by the bucketful?

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EliteXC Results

Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 16th September 2007

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1. Renato Verissimo vs. Jake Shields. Shields got him down and fucked him up with a barrage of punches and elbows. That’s what happens when you make the cover of Total MMA. Your dominance is assured. Take note fighters, take note.
2. Riki Fukuda vs. Joe Villasenor. Hell of a fight. Some great back and forth action. Joe takes a split decision. Note to Mauro Ranallo: there is only one Smokin Joe. When Frazier passes on we can pass on the nickname. But not yet. It’s disrespectful to a legend.
3. Gina Carano vs. Tanya Evinger. Gina by suspicious submission in her own personal weight class (141). OK. Also, Mauro apparently has a 10 inch pole.
4. Nick Diaz. vs. Mike Aina. Diaz was very active in every round, landing a number of pitty pat jabs and some pinpoint punches inside. But Aina was swinging from his hips with serious bad intentions. Diaz would be well served by training his wrestling real hard because he needs the option of taking the fight to the ground when he’s getting the worst of it and he couldn’t here. He deserved the decision, but will need to be sharper when the competition goes up a notch.
5. Robbie Lawler vs. Murilo Ninja for the EliteXC/ICON Sport Middleweight Championship. This was the Robbie Lawler the UFC expected to see 4 years ago. He’s got monster power in his hands and is threat to anyone in the world at 185.

Great night of fights. Well worth finding the replays on Showtime. Every fight is worth seeing and that’s a rare thing indeed.

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Total MMA Issue 4

Posted by Jonathan Snowden on 14th September 2007

 

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Total MMA Issue 4

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It’s a big weekend for MMA around the world with Ring of Fire in Colorado and Elite XC on Showtime from Hawaii. And don’t forget about Cage Rage ready to light up the UK again next week. We haven’t! In this issue we talk to the best fighter in the world who’s never been featured on a UFC or Pride Card (hint: name rhymes with Rake Fields) and we get in depth with Fight Girl Michelle Waterson who’s looking to take the MMA world by storm.

 

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