mma.fanhouse.com - 10/12/2008
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Filed under: EliteXC , MMA Media Watch On Friday I interviewed EliteXC head of fight operations Jeremy Lappen , and pointed out to him that he had seemed to contradict himself about whether or not EliteXC offered Seth Petruzelli a submission bonus. Lappen was quoted by Sports Illustrated as ...
mma.fanhouse.com - 10/10/2008
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The mainstream media has hit EliteXC harder than
Seth Petruzelli hit Kimbo Slice this week, with prominent...
sports writers and commentators saying the MMA promotion is no better than pro wrestling and that Kimbo's loss to Petruzelli was fixed . Today ...
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EliteXC Official Rips Media, Says Kimbo Slice- Seth ...
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/8/2008
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Apparently, knocking out Kevin"Kimbo Slice" Ferguson wasn't enough
of a headline grabber for Seth Petruzelli this past...
Saturday. On Monday, the replacement for Ken Shamrock at EliteXC: Heat on CBS attempted to stir the media even more by insinuating ...
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Seth Petruzelli backtracked from his comments that ...
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Frank Shamrock vs. Ken Shamrock is coming soon
FightOpinion.com —
... . Who will get to promote the fight? Frank has a financial interest in Elite XC, but both brothers have worked with Strikeforce. How about EXC letting Strikeforce be the local promoter of the fight in San Jose and airing it on CBS? Speaking of Elite XC, Michael David Smith of AOL Fanhouse has a note about Jeremy Lappen . This is an important update, as MDS asks Josh Gross of SI as to whether or not he ‘misquoted’ Lappen (as Lappen recently claimed). The report claims that there is audio of what Lappen said to Gross. What was it that I said a couple of days ago about not ...
SI.com and ESPN stand by Lappen quotes
Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap —
... on contradicting statements regarding StandGate. Not surprising, the guys who ‘misquoted’ him were not impressed with this accusation: Today the writer of the Sports Illustrated piece in question, Josh Gross, told me flatly, “I stand by my reporting. I did not misquote Jeremy Lappen.” Indeed, Gross played for me a portion of his recorded interview with Lappen, in which Lappen says to him that Petruzelli was given “Just a knockout bonus. We don’t give submission bonuses.” I have read a great deal of Gross’s work, and I have read a great deal of the work of Franklin McNeil, ...
Reger’s Rant Oct 15, 2008
MMA on Tap —
... With the news coming of last weeks consistent flip flops and accusations of being misquoted, despite being on tape, someone in the EXC PR department may want to tell Mr. Lappen to quiet down a bit. ...
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EliteXC completed its third show in three weeks Friday in Hammond, Ind. While it was a quality show, it was not anywhere near as strong as the promotion's ShoXC event from two weeks ago in Santa Ynez, Calif., which many pundits believe was EliteXC's ...
