EliteXC
Jake Shields Needs To Fight Diego Sanchez
Remember about a month ago where I said you had to respect Jake Shields? Will consider him a man of his word because he’s still singing the same tune according to the latest from him:
“My 30 days is up today,” Shields said on Thursday. “Today I consider myself a free agent. EliteXC still has no reply, [...]
2008 MMA Awards Thus Far
As the year 2008 slowly comes to an end, throughout this busy and historic year we’ve seen many shake ups, breakdowns, and fallouts. While there’s plenty of MMA left to achieve one of the aforementioned verbs, I will just give my two cents on some of the major happenings of the year thus far:
Fight of [...]
Why You Have To Respect Jake Shields
In the article Shields speaks on how he found out that EliteXC was closing up shop, the UFC, and his future. MMAWeekly recently caught up with EliteXC MW Champ:
My Initial Thoughts On EliteXC Folding
Good Riddance-I mean I’m all for a company that promotes the sport of MMA in the correct fashion, but when you do some of the things that EliteXC supposedly did? Then I suppose karma is a mofo, and I don’t even believe in karma like that.
Dana White-We Don’t Need CBS or HBO
MMAWeekly has made a post documenting the top 20 MOST watched fights in the U.S. history. I must make this clear, as this pertains ONLY to the U.S., and not Japan or any other foreign markets. Also, the article does a good job of communicating how they came up with those ratings. Many of you read a [...]
Gina Carano On Pay, Weighing In Naked, Jared Shaw Peaking
Ken And Frank Shamrock Agree To Fight
According to this article on ESPN:
There are plenty of particulars to iron out, like the date (probably sometime in April), the venue (none has been chosen) and the promotional and broadcast partners to be involved (Elite XC, CBS, and Showtime, with perhaps some other co-promoters), before what is believed to be the first brother vs. [...]
“Ninja” Rua on Loss To Benji Radach
“I was well, going after him on the second round, but unfortunately I missed one step and get hit on the chin. I had hit him hard on the beginning, but he recovered well, and I think it was a good fight, I got out of there applauded from the crowd”, commented Ninja, that believes [...]
EliteXC’s Money Distribution Is Horrible
MMAWeekly has the total payroll for EliteXC’s latest event that happened this past weekend. The totals are as follows:
MAIN EVENT FIGHTERS
– Seth Petruzelli ($50,000/win bonus was $15,000) def. Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson ($500,000/win bonus would have been $100,000)
MAIN CARD FIGHTERS
– Jake Shields ($50,000/win bonus was $10,000) def. Paul Daley ($12,000)
– Andre Arlovski ($500,000) def. Roy [...]
EliteXC’s “Heat” Rating Is In
Last night ratings are here.
Earlier this week I expressed my thoughts on some factors that could impact the rating of the show here.
Now, I have no way to prove if any of those things impacted the rating of the show. However, the show did not do as well as a lot of people thought it would. Surely [...]
