By Dave Walsh

Really, what were you expecting from EliteXC on CBS? I am looking around the net right now, and it is actually kind of distressing the level of insanity that is coming with the inaugural MMA event on broadcast television and the coverage that it is getting. A lot of the mainstream media is giving this event some positive or simply complacent reviews, while most of the net is going absolutely livid over it. What I see is a whole different level of understanding, and it isn’t in the way which you would think.

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Tomorrow night, Kimbo Slice will enter the cage for Elite XC in a moment that is quite possibly the most important in the history of the sport. Naturally, this sort of event brings out all the MMA bloggers/pretend journalists from the woodwork and has brought an insane amount of talk about what a show that hasn’t yet happened will do for the long term health of the sport. What’s not been discussed by virtually anyone is what a severe departure tomorrow night’s show is from every other MMA show previously televised.

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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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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?