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Frank Shamrock vs. Ken Shamrock is coming soon
By Zach Arnold | October 12, 2008
ESPN report here. 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 having a centralized PR strategy and attacking multiple media outlets? How dumb is this? What’s astounding about this whole situation with Jeremy Lappen is that he’s a corporate lawyer. He’s not a dummy. However, I am shaking my head at the way he has (mis)handled this entire situation.
Previous articles:
- US sports media weighs in on Elite XC scandal
- Video: Dana White explains the Elite XC scandal to the average person
- Jeremy Lappen says both ESPN & SI ‘misquoted’ him
- Reports: Kimbo/Petruzelli fight being ‘investigated’
- The Elite XC PR disaster continues, even with the wrong focus on the scandal
- Bad news for Elite XC — big media outlets focus on the Kimbo/Petruzelli stand-up scandal
- How about that good PR for Elite XC?
- We want real answers, not fanboy interviewing questions
- Report: Ken Shamrock was going to be ‘paid to stand with him as well’
- The PR spin on the Seth Petruzelli/Kimbo Slice situation
- Can Elite XC management be prosecuted for this?
Topics: Media, MMA, Pro Elite, Zach Arnold | 8 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
Josh Gross is pretty much the one guy covering the sport that people would be LEAST likely to believe misquoted you. He should’ve just said that he misspoke.
Yeah, Lappen’s just…I don’t know. There’s not a lot they can do to salvage this whole situation.
I like the idea of EXC working with Strikeforce and airing the fight on CBS. Does EXC still owe Strikeforce some cooperation due to that lawsuit regarding Frank from way back when?
I hope Frank doesn’t kill his adoptive big bro. This matchup is a lot more dangerous for Ken than the Kimbo fight and we could very well see another mma death. I don’t know how state athletic commissions still allow Ken to fight especially considering the discrepancy between Frank’s and Ken’s skill level right now. Tito vs Ken II and III were big mismatches but I’m sure Ken’s health has gotten worse since then.
After the debacle that is the legend in Ken Shamrock, he should announce this rumor of Shamrock vs Shamrock as a true retirement.
Zach: In response to your information that Jeremy Lappen is a corporate lawyer, I think that is the case with a lot of “powerful people,” they get too arrogant for their own good.
I think alot of you think Ken is worse off than he really is. I understand many of you aren’t boxing fans, but if you were you’d see somebody that is truly damaged from fights. Ken doesn’t slur his words and is still articulate enough to sell a fight. The losses everybody points to are Tito – well as much as I hate Tito he’s still a top 20 LHW, Saku where he was robbed, and the Buzz Berry dive debacle. He damn sure didn’t get hurt taking a dive against Berry. Kenny is fine
jeremy lappen is a dummy.. it just took a while to come out!
To Skwirrl….
If you had seen Ken after the fight, even in the interview he gave from the lockerroom about 15 mins after the KO, he was all over the place, could hardly string a few words together. It was pretty horrible to watch, he was less out of it after the beating he took in the first Tito fight, and THAT was a beating.
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