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Thursday, October 9th, 2008LA Times report and San Jose Mercury News report. Additionally, posts at MMA Convert and MMA Opinion. Steve Barry’s article at MMA Convert catches Jeremy Lappen supposedly changing his story on the bonus structure of Elite XC contracts. I’m not bullish on anything happening here as far as a positive outcome in this ‘investigation’ is […]
Server issues
Thursday, October 9th, 2008A formal statement will be issued in the next couple of days in regards to why the site was taken down. Until then, no further comment.
Bad news for Elite XC — big media outlets focus on the Kimbo/Petruzelli stand-up scandal
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008A few hours ago, I wrote this post reviewing the possible options of attack for MMA fans and writers if they wanted to further pursue the Seth Petruzelli/Kimbo Slice “stand-up” media scandal that is unfolding before our eyes. The most viable option of attack was to encourage the mainstream media (the broadsheets, TV networks) to […]
How about that good PR for Elite XC?
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Josh Gross (SI): Seth Petruzelli backtracked from comments that Elite XC told him not to KO Kimbo Slice MMA Memories: Why match fixing and bribery scandals are bad for MMA MMA Weekly: Roy Nelson has had it with stand-ups, referees, and ‘politics’ Fightlinker: Roy Nelson bitches about stand-up and ‘politics’ Bloody Elbow: Jim Rome talks […]
Around the media horn (10/8/08)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Dana White gets his mafia TV show UFC boss sets mob drama at Spike. Maybe he could recreate the PRIDE yakuza scandal using old editions of Shukan Gendai. Nah… A PR push for Chris Leben From bad boy to coach, UFC fighter Chris Leben grows up “I still like to have fun, I still like […]
We want real answers, not fanboy interviewing questions
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008This is pathetic: PRO MMA: Now I know a lot has been made about the fact that EliteXC supposedly paid you not to take Kimbo down. Now I’ve read the comments you had made and it seemed like your words were severely twisted around. Can you go ahead and set the record straight for everyone: […]
Fight Opinion Radio #91: The meltdown of Kimbo Slice & Elite XC
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Kimbo Slice gets knocked out in 14 seconds, Elite XC loses their top meal ticket in the process, and the winner of the fight opens his mouth in a very bad way. Welcome to the fight business! We’ll do our best to make the case as to why you should care about allegations of fight […]
Report: Ken Shamrock was going to be “paid to stand with him as well”
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Update: In this radio interview (time mark – 40 minutes), Dave Meltzer claims that he had heard about the Seth Petruzelli “stand-up” scenario before Petruzelli himself brought it up on the radio on Monday morning. “He’s backtracking. Uhm… I will also say that the story that he said, I had heard that story, uhm, long […]
DEEP 10/23 in Tokyo at Korakuen Hall
Monday, October 6th, 2008Main event is Katsuyori Shibata vs. Yasuhito Namekawa. Riki Fukuda of GRABAKA fame is also scheduled to fight at this show.
Satoshi Ishii postpones decision on whether or not to convert to MMA
Monday, October 6th, 2008He held a press conference in the last few hours to publicly announce that he would not make a decision regarding his future in Judo or MMA at this very moment. If he stays on the current course and does not enter MMA, he will likely participate at the 2012 London Olympic games.
The PR spin on the Seth Petruzelli/Kimbo Slice situation
Monday, October 6th, 2008Update: Elite XC comments on the situation. I commend Sam Caplan for his reporting, but this title reflects a poor choice of words. “Petruzelli disputes reports he received a bribe to keep Slice fight a standup affair.” This is not so much a knock on Sam as it is on Petruzelli’s “they twisted my words” […]
Can Elite XC management be prosecuted for this?
Monday, October 6th, 2008As in, trying to allegedly alter or fix a fight? Let’s go to the audio! Here’s Seth Petruzelli in his own words: SP: Not really, but I train with lots of undefeated pro boxers, a couple guys have a belt, and my style kinda throws them off a bit, I have kind of an awkward […]
Andrei Arlovski’s stock as an MMA prime-time player continues to take a hit
Monday, October 6th, 2008When it was reported last month that only 700 tickets had been sold for Affliction’s October 11th scheduled event at the Thomas & Mack Center for Josh Barnett vs. Andrei Arlovski, I stated that I thought it was a blow to Arlovski’s image in terms of him being perceived as a marketable main event fighter. […]
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