sports.espn.go.com - 10/21/2008
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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 close for good this week and would file for ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/21/2008
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Less than two years following the formation of
ProElite, Inc., the group notified employees and fighters Monday...
it was shutting its doors effective immediately, multiple sources confirmed to SI.com.
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MMA's ProElite, EliteXC out of business
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 10/21/2008
mmaweekly.com - 10/21/2008
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- ELITEXC INSIDER DETAILS COMPANY'S DOWNFALL Tuesday, October
21, 2008 - by Tom Hamlin - MMAWeekly.com EliteXCDownfall.jpg...
In an interview with MMAWeekly.com Monday evening, Icon Sport founder T.J. Thompson said crisis management, or lack thereof, ...
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- ELITEXC INSIDER DETAILS COMPANY'S DOWNFALL - MMA ...
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Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Oct. 21, 2008
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today.
+ The good and the bad TV numbers from the Rays-Red Sox Game 7 Sunday night. {Dallas Morning News Sports Media Blog.}
+ The NBA is introducing more instant replay, but at what cost? {The Sporting Blog.}
+ RIP, EliteXC. {ESPN.}
+ Mark Prior may be ready for the 2009 season. Hooray! {MLB Trade Rumors.}
+ It’s ...
EliteXC Consultant : Kimbo’s K.O. Artist Was Paid Off
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... Tuesday’s announcement that UFC’s primary competitor in the Mixed Martial Arts sphere, EliteXC was declaring bankruptcy, is being called “the MMA version of the Death Of WCW” by ...
2008 in review: MMA.
Sports Media Watch —
... stand and trade with the weak-grappling Slice ." In Petruzelli's own words: " The promoters kind of hinted to me and they gave me the money to stand and trade with him. ... They didn't want me to take him down, let's just put it that way ." As a result, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation opened an investigation into the bout. Prior to the fight, Showtime, which already owned a stake in ProElite, had been " close to [completing] " a deal " to purchase the company outright ." That sale was crucial to the survival of EliteXC, which due ...
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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.
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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 ...
The end arrives for EliteXC
mmajunkie.com 10/21/2008 — EliteXC has thrown its last punch.
Mounting financial losses and questions surrounding the handling of its latest event have led to the demise of ProElite, Inc., owner of EliteXC. MMAjunkie.com has confirmed through a company source with ...
EliteXC Cleared of Wrongdoing in Kimbo Slice- Seth Petruzelli Fight
mma.fanhouse.com 10/24/2008 — EliteXC got some good news today, at least if an organization that has gone out of business can get good news: The mixed martial arts promotion has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Mike ...
EliteXC official "excited" about future
mmajunkie.com 10/17/2008 — On the eve of UFC 89 -- and just eight days from UFC 90, the attention of the MMA world has been decidedly shifted to the largest organization in the world.
But for the past three weeks, the center of the MMA universe had been EliteXC. And while ...
EliteXC Goes Out of Business
rearnaked.blogspot.com 10/21/2008 — Following months of financial turmoil, EliteXC has decided to call it quits. Rear Naked News has the details and what this means for Mixed Martial Arts. Also, where will the former EliteXC fighters sign?
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.
Florida finds no wrong-doing on EliteXC’s part in “standgate”
fiveouncesofpain.com 10/25/2008 — The Florida State Boxing Commission has completed its investigation of ProElite and EliteXC in regard to public complaint stemming from the promotion’s final card earlier this month at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.
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