newsday.com - 5/30/2008
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MMA has been the fastest-rising sports property of the millennium, but the Elite XC show is a milestone that would have been laughable in 2000. It will be carried live in prime time on CBS, a first for any branch of the sport, including Ultimate Fighting Championship , its most visible, lucrative brand. The deal calls for four such shows on CBS, giving MMA the broadcast network platform ...
CBS Elite XC results for ‘Saturday Night Fights’ on May 31
mmamania.com 5/29/2008 — With perhaps the biggest lightweight fight in the history of mixed martial arts in the books, it’s now time to turn our attention to another historical event set to take place this coming Saturday, May 31, as Elite XC and CBS will join forces ...
Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Kobe, MMA, More
sportingnews.com 5/30/2008 —
Today's Calls: Kobe vs. Duncan, Big Unit vs. Clemens, ChiSox vs. Rays, Doug Collins vs. Oblivion, Rip Hamilton vs. Ray Allen, Ty Lawson vs. Sriram Hathwar, MMA vs. CBS and More.
The Opening Pitch: Winning the West was bigger than winning the ...
Carano Can’t Weight For EliteXC Premiere on CBS
sportsbybrooks.com 5/31/2008 — Mixed martial arts takes a big broadcasting step this weekend, as CBS will be showing the first of many EliteXC “Saturday Night Fights” specials. And one of the most coveted competitors among the male 18-35 demographic is American ...
MMA's Network Debut Doesn't Disappoint —
AwfulAnnouncing
I wish I could tell you above anything else that I knew what I was talking about but I have no idea if these MMA fights were good, bad, or indifferent. I watched the whole CBS broadcast and I thought it was flat out awesome. I'm obviously not the person to comment on Gus Johnson's foray into MMA but as a casual viewer I was hanging on every word. The guy just knows action and how to ...
MMA on CBS, What Does It All Mean? —
Bloody Elbow
Some very astute analysis of the implications of the CBS/Elite XC show from the "new guy" at MMA Payout, Andrew Falzon:
Unlike pay per view or even Spike TV, the CBS EliteXC broadcast will reach virtually every home in America with a television. According to SNL Kagan , that number is over 112-million homes. Consider that the UFC does between 400,000-600,000 pay per view buys, ...
MMA Invades the Airwaves —
MMA Fever - Are you down with the sickness?
Oh yeah, the network debut of MMA is today. CBS has an EliteXC event starring Kimbo at 8 central (Saturday). Hide your kids, or they might be the next Murder Death Kill poster children. For the dense headed, don't let your kids watch this shit or they will kill some motherfuckers before they hit puberty.
MMA Ready For Primetime? —
Intentional Foul
This weekend marks network TV’s first foray into the MMA craze sweeping the nation when CBS presents its Saturday Night Fights featuring the talent from the Elite XC stable of fighters. The headliners includes Internet sensation, Kimbo Slice and American Gladiator, Gina Carano, a favorite of ours around here.
But is this the right way to bring MMA to the masses? By relying on ...
Miami Herald Rips Mixed Martial Arts —
MMA News, UFC News, Strikeforce: MMA Scraps News
This article makes me sick. While I'm not thrilled about the idea of Kimbo being the headliner for the first MMA on network TV, thats no reason to go on and bash the entire sport. Here's an excerpt from Miamiherald.com writer Greg Cote. CBS-TV lends the fraud-sport grandly calling itself Mixed Martial Arts the false imprimatur of legitimacy by this week inaugurating a new prime-time ...
Pain Poll: The Staff of 5 Oz. Breaks Down EliteXC on CBS —
Five Ounces of Pain
We’re here once again with another exciting weekend of mixed martial arts action starting with EliteXC: Primetime on CBS. This will be a historic event for the sport of MMA and we’re more than happy to give you our analysis and predictions of the fights. Let’s do it..
Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson
Paul Balsom: Thompson has [...]
CBS nixes Kimbo’s porno sponsorship.. —
The SAV SCI MMA blog
More appropriately, to the surprise of no one, they won’t allow Kimbo Slice to wear anything plugging his sponors at the “Reality Kings” porno website. Instead, Kimbo will wear a thermal with the image of Angela Lansbury fromthe long running CBS series “Murder She Wrote”. CBS also nixed his first choice of a ...
Quote of the Day: Kimbo not the face of MMA —
Bloody Elbow
Kimbo hasn’t fought anyone nearly as good as Mir or Herring. Who knows if he ever will? EliteXC and CBS are running his career like a boxer, even if trumped up records and mismatch fights have severely damaged that sports’ popularity.
Saturday’s card is not set up to show the best of mixed martial arts and introduce America to a sport it would likely embrace.
If CBS was trying to ...
RING NOTES: MMA takes over CBS on Saturday night —
Keep Punching
To check out audio interviews from Kimbo Slice and the rest of the fighters on the “CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights” card, click here.
Internet street-fighting sensation Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson has been getting all the publicity and commercial spots in the weeks leading up to the debut of mixed martial arts in prime time on network television with “CBS EliteXC ...
CBS Elite XC results for ‘Saturday Night Fights’ on May 31 —
MMAdness
With perhaps the biggest lightweight fight in the history of mixed martial arts in the books, it’s now time to turn our attention to another historical event set to take place this coming Saturday, May 31, as Elite XC and CBS will join forces to televise a LIVE MMA event for the first time ever on free television.
The event is being held at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and ...
Fight Breakdown: Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson —
MMABettingBlog.com
James ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson the street fighting sensation, now an EliteXC heavyweight fighter is set to take on James ‘Colossus’ Thompson in the main event on the first ever CBS broadcasting of an MMA event. This is a big deal to have a station like CBS broadcasting the fight.
Kimbo is an animal, seriously
Kimbo Slice has a 2-0 MMA record with one knock out and ...
5 Oz. of Pain on CBS Sports: Defending Affliction —
Five Ounces of Pain
For my CBS Sports column last week, I did an op/ed piece on some strong feelings I have about those that have been focusing more on Affliction’s business model in MMA as opposed to the quality of the first card they have put together.
You can check it out right now by clicking here.
See what I [...]
CBS Takes (Kimbo) Slice From the MMA Pie —
Boxing Meets MMA
(for more go to proelite.com) It has been signed, sealed and official for a while now and this Saturday night at 9 p.m. it looks to finally be delivered. Due to the volatile nature of the fight business what with injuries and dirty politics involved, this was no sure bet to come off the ground. So, barring any last minute cancellations to Elite XC's primary line up, what is being billed as ...
ESPN jumps on the MMA bandwagon —
Sports Business Digest
ESPN/ABC have now officially “Dipped all of their toes” into the world of Mixed Martial Arts. Last week, ESPN.com launched a new show, MMA Live , devoted to all things mixed martial arts. From SportsBusinessDaily ,
The show looks like a “Baseball Tonight” for MMA and featured three 30-second spots for Toyota Tundra. New episodes will be available on ESPN.com every ...
SLICE LOOKS FOR BIG SHARE OF AUDIENCE —
NY Post: Sports
Questionable choice headlines CBS showIT'S likely many viewers will tune in to watch mixed martial arts for the first time tonight when CBS broadcasts its first live show from the Prudential Center in Newark. Not everyone in the MMA industry...
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