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When a $55 million dollar deficit is a good thing, not a bad thing

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Pro Elite, in their recent 10Q SEC filing, has admitted that they have accumulated a $55 million dollar deficit over the last two years. This must mean that “… EliteXC is fully functional and fully healthy.”

Today’s drug test failures

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

When the news breaks, post your comments right here.

Jake Shields was right – Noons vs. Diaz probably won’t happen

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Remember our audio interview with Jake Shields (a great man) a couple of weeks ago? You should listen to it if you haven’t done so, yet. In the interview, Jake predicted that KJ Noons would not fight Nick Diaz and gave several reasons as to why he feels that EXC squashed the momentum of what […]

Pro Elite 10Q (8/19/08)

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Filing here. Some items of note: The company’s current assets are around $15 million USD and it’s total accumuluated deficit is $55.7 million USD. On 12/31/07, the assets were $26.2 million USD and the deficit number was $31.4 million USD. This means that the company has admittedly lost nearly $25 million USD in a 6-7 […]

The UFC hype machine lands in Chicago

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Michael David Smith (AOL Fanhouse): Miguel Torres expects to fight Manny Tapia on 12/3, then Urijah Faber later on Sportsnet (Canada): Dana White says Anderson Silva wanted Patrick Cote next The Chicago Tribune: UFC comes to Illinois Setanta Sports (UK): Martin Kampmann says upcoming fight with Nathan Marquardt is his toughest test to date MMA […]

Back to $2.75/share

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Pro Elite’s stock price, that is. The quarterly report on the company’s finances is supposed to be filed by today.

Quote of the Day – Elite XC

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Steve Sievert at MMA Junkie recently interviewed Pro Elite CEO Chuck Champion: “We look at October as a critical step in our development,” ProElite CEO Chuck Champion told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “We’re approaching it that way. We’re not betting the ranch on the thing, so I don’t want you to think we’re just pushing ‘all in,’ […]

The financial status of Pro Elite (EXC)

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Pro Elite stock update today from the SEC: Notification of inability to timely file Form 10-Q or 10-QSB (NT 10-Q, 8/15) The Company is spending significant time and resources seeking required financing, including significant efforts by the financial and accounting staff, and as a result is unable to complete the consolidated financial reporting needed to […]

Affliction saves some money; Belfort not booked for Las Vegas

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

MMA Weekly is reporting that Vitor Belfort will not fight Matt Lindland on the Affliction 10/11 Las Vegas show. That was an awfully expensive undercard fight to book. Affliction is now working to find a new opponent for Lindland. Speaking of Matt Lindland, any chance that he will be fighting Jake Shields soon? We interviewed […]

Kimbo Slice in Madden ’09 TV ad

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Now I’ve seen it all.

Fight Opinion Radio #88: Jake Shields, Renato Babalu, & Daniel Puder

Monday, August 11th, 2008

A great show for you this week, as we have three high-energy guests on the program. First, Jake Shields stopped by to talk about his latest win (over Nick Thompson), the prospects of facing Georges St. Pierre and how he thinks he could do against GSP, and why KJ Noons vs. Nick Diaz may not […]

Mark Davies: Does it matter if Gina Carano wins?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

By Mark Davies Several months ago, while waiting for the tantalizingly inevitable pictures of Gina Carano’s latest weigh-in, I had a thought. No, not the same thought hundreds of teenaged MMA fans were having as they waited for those same pictures… Most fight fans are aware of Gina’s routine failures to make weight, primarily because […]

Fight Opinion Radio #87: Josh Barnett & Shayna Baszler

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

They wanted to come on our show, so we gave them a not-so-cotton-candy Q & A session. Topics mentioned during the interview include: reports about Affliction pay cuts, will or will not Fedor fight on the second Affliction show, reasons for why Shayna got mauled by a woman named Cyborg, and why Shayna is all […]

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