usatoday.com - 10/30/2008
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The demise of EliteXC leaves prime-time network mixed martial arts in limbo, along with fighters such as Gina Carano, Kimbo Slice ...
fannation.com - 10/23/2008
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fannation.com —
Seth Petruzelli and Kimbo Slice, Tom Casino/EliteXC/CBS Showtime
Not Quitting ... Yet Don't expect Showtime to get...
out of the MMA business. According to an email statement by Showtime to SI.com: ProElite officials have advised us that they ...
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Latest news on ProElite, its demise and the future of ...
sportsline.com - 10/25/2008
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sportsline.com —
In spite of ProElite and EliteXC's collapse earlier
this week, no top-level executives from the company have...
spoken out publicly thus far to discuss exactly what went wrong. However, one man with close ties to the fight promotion has gone on the ...
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Five Ounces of Pain: Former EliteXC consultant speaks ...
mma.lohudblogs.com - 10/31/2008
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mma.lohudblogs.com —
Now that EliteXC is dead, a plethora of
MMA free agents will be hitting the market soon,...
one of the most prominent being Gina “The Conviction” Carano. Gina Carano quickly became the face of women’s MMA. Coming from a successful ...
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What’s next for Gina Carano?
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UFC Quick Quote: Dana White respects Strikeforce; Gina Carano
MMA Mania —
... -UFC President Dana White as quoted in USA Today about what place Strikeforce and Gina Carano have in today’s world of mixed martial arts. Perhaps Mr. White isn’t the meglomaniacal dictator some people make him out to be. You decide. ...
Quote of the Day: Dana White Talks Gina Carano
Bloody Elbow —
... -- Dana White talking to USA Today about Carano, Strikeforce and a potential relationship between the female phenom and West Coast promotion. ...
Strikeforce Drawing Viewers on NBC
MMA on Tap —
Beau Dure of USA Today has a piece mostly about Strikeforce, and how they’re on a slow and steady growth path.
Two of the most important points of the article:
Strikeforce announced last week that its Oct. 18 Strikeforce on NBC show drew more than 1.1 million viewers. The show airs late Saturday nights and is available in roughly 80% of TV markets, says the organization’s director of communications, Mike Afromowitz.
Over a million for a tape-delayed super-late night show is very good, no doubt. In ...
Strikeforce and UFC Show Love for Each Other, But What’s the Future of EliteXC’s Fighters?
MMA Fight Girls Wallpaper —
... Perhaps it’s an opportunity in the UFC, perhaps it’s an opportunity with Strikeforce. Kimbo Slice was already offered an opportunity with the UFC’s Ultimate Fighter reality TV show, but he turned it down as he thought he wouldn’t win it. Lawler’s currently talking with Dana White about an opportunity to fight with the UFC and Gina Carano, unfortunately the UFC isn’t in that game, you know, they don’t do woman’s fighting. According to USA Today, White states, “ ...
The Week in Quotes, October 25th - 31st
Bloody Elbow —
... "Gina Carano's a talented fighter...She's a star. She should've been the main event (on CBS' last EliteXC broadcast). My thing with women and fighting is there isn't enough good women to create a whole division. Could I do some one-off fights here and there? Yeah, but that's not really what we do." - White, on Gina Carano (USA Today) ...
Report: Strikeforce set to buy ProElite assets
MMA Mania —
... library and fighter contracts.
There is a tremendous upside to this potential acquisition from a fan’s perspective. There’s going to be a bunch of great fighters who could end up competing for the promotion and possibly ending up in fantasy or dream matches never before possible due to the lack of cooperation between entities.
UFC President Dana White, one of ProElite’s biggest critics, has actually been a vocal supporter of Strikeforce.
From an October 2008 USA Today interview:
“I hope they do 10 million viewers ...
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intentionalfoul.com 10/10/2008 —
After the failure of Kimbo Slice – beaten by this guy — EliteXC is trying to spin their sport in a positive; but after putting so much stock in their backyard brawler, the MMA company is threatening to fold like a house of cards, or ...
What's next for Gina Carano?
epiccarnival.com 10/21/2008 — by Mr. E , Staff Writer With Sports Illustrated reporting that ProElite and EliteXC are closing their doors , millions of MMA fans around the world are left to wonder what's next? No, not for Kimbo Slice. Not even for whomever decided to shell out ...
What's next for Carano, Slice and the rest of the ProElite fighters?
blogs.chron.com 10/25/2008 — Where do the stars of EliteXC go from here?
UFC/WEC?
Former EliteXC Fighters like Jake Shields and Eddie Alvarez have been destined to go to the big show for some time and the demise of EliteXC is just going to speed up the process. Expect to see ...
Scott Smith offers a fighter’s perspective on the fall of EliteXC
mmamania.com 10/29/2008 —
Former EliteXC middleweight contender Scott “Hands of Steel” Smith was set to face Cuban Judo Olympian Hector “Shango” Lombard at Elite XC “Night of Champions” on November 8 live on Showtime from the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada.
It ...
MMAjunkie.com Fight Biz - Is MMA better off without EliteXC?
mmajunkie.com 11/3/2008 — EliteXC took a go big or go home approach to mixed martial arts and less than two years after its first event, the organization went home.
In his latest edition of MMAjunkie.com Fight Biz, Steve Sievert talks to Showtime MMA analyst Stephen ...
Gina Carano not worried about EliteXC collapse
blog.thesavagescience.com 11/8/2008 — From the Reno Gazette Journal:
Her career was dealt a jarring blow, but Gina Carano is confident she’ll land on her feet.
Carano, one of the best and most popular female mixed martial arts fighters in the world, is under contract with Elite XC. But ...
EliteXC Goes Out of Business, Kimbo Slice Is Out of Work
mma.fanhouse.com 10/21/2008 — EliteXC, the mixed martial arts organization that made a splash by putting Internet sensation Kimbo Slice on live network television, has gone out of business. Josh Gross of Sports Illustrated reports that the organization has told his fighters that ...
Kimbo’s EliteXC Goes Out of Business
findingdulcinea.com 10/22/2008 — EliteXC, a mixed martial arts promotion made famous by Kimbo Slice, is folding less than three weeks after Slice lost his first professional fight.
Reports: EliteXC tells employees, fighters it's out of business - MMA
sports.espn.go.com 10/21/2008 — The parent company of the EliteXC mixed martial arts circuit is closing its doors for good, according to multiple reports. Sherdog.com reported that according to T.J. Thompson, an executive at ProElite Inc., he was informed that the company would ...
Taylor prepares to fight Lacy (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - Boxing News 10/29/2008
Jermain Taylor welcomed his break from boxing. Ever since he fought as an amateur in the early 1990s, Taylor rarely was away from the sport. The gym became a constant destination as he blossomed into an Olympian and the middleweight champion. But ...
