Comments on: Media heat-up for EXC 10/4 Florida event

By: Jeremy (not that Jeremy)

Jeremy (not that Jeremy) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:42:08 +0000

I don’t know what they get for a flat fee, it’s part of what was redacted from their SEC filings.

You suggested that they were making a mint on the ads, and they aren’t getting a penny for them.

By: dave2

dave2 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:37:14 +0000

The flat license fee they get from CBS is less than what they would get from PPV? Really? Even 100k PPV buys would be generous for ProElite so that fee would have to be pretty small.

By: Jeremy (not that Jeremy)

Jeremy (not that Jeremy) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:36:16 +0000

EXC gets a flat license fee from CBS for a two hour event. They don’t get a cut of the ads.

By: dave2

dave2 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:43:27 +0000

I doubt EliteXC would bring in more money with PPV than being on CBS. CBS is “free” but you get millions of eyeballs on the ads.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:29:30 +0000

Speaking of cookies, it soundds like Gina has been eating too many of them again. Third times a charm to make weight. She gets her very own weight class and still can’t make the weight.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:27:41 +0000

The position Elite is in reminds me of the monkey/cookie jar scenario. There’s a cookie in a shatter-proof cookie jar. The mouth of the jar is so narrow that the only way the monkey can get his hand in there is with its hand flat. The monkey puts his hand in and grabs the cookie, but can’t get the cookie out because to hold the cookie is to make his hand’s shape incompatible with the opening of the jar. To get his hand out, he must let go of the cookie.

Can’t Elite limp along long enough for someone to buy it? Do they feel like they’ve spent too much money to just let it go? I don’t think that cookie is coming out — maybe Dana White will jam his hand into the jar, crush the cookie, and dump it all out once Elite walks away.

By: zack

zack — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:44:44 +0000

Bring in Don Frye to smash Kimbo.

By: David

David — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:44:00 +0000

Next for Kimbo.. Frank Shamrock!! ahahh.

By: Jeremy (not that Jeremy)

Jeremy (not that Jeremy) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:38:00 +0000

UFC’s made a business out of giving away calves and selling cows simultaneously.

The problem with EliteXC is that they don’t have a PPV track record, so there’s no expectation that people would ever have to pay for an event of any calibre, unless they want the DVD.

By: Ultimo Santa

Ultimo Santa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:34:54 +0000

“Plus, once you give away Kimbo for free (which they have), people will not pay to see him.”

That’s a great point. His fans have been downloading his street fights for free, and now Elite is giving him away for free again on TV.

What – if any – Kimbo Slice fight would people pay for?

Kimbo Slice vs. Frank Shamrock (as revenge for Kimbo paralyzing his brother)?

Slice vs. Royce Gracie? Bill Goldberg? Another WWE washout?

I wonder if Mike Tyson needs some quick cash?