Below are the final gate receipts and medical suspensions issued by the Florida State Boxing Commission:
Final Gate Receipt Information:
At the post-fight press conference, EliteXC Head of fighter Operations Jeremy Lappen had originally reported that 9,414 attended the EliteXC: Heat event, with 7,723 paid attendees for a live gate of $826,000.
Fact: There were actually 6,854 paid [...]
If there’s two things that you can take to the bank about Ken Shamrock, it would be that he is a MMA legend and that he is outspoken (probably a family trait). At Shamrock’s website (KenShamrock.com), he issued an open letter of sorts on Thursday, addressing what went down prior to his scheduled bout with [...]
In this episode of MMA Live, they discuss Kimbo Slice’s loss to Seth Petruzelli at EliteXC: Heat, what the ramifications may be for Slice and EliteXC; they also discuss Georges St. Pierre possibly going Hollywood, Strikeforce and much more.
For those of you who watched the Roy Nelson-Andrei Arlovski bout on EliteXC-CBS Saturday Night Fights, you probably saw the referee incident that transpired in the ring; to recap, what basically happened was that Nelson was attempting to apply a kimura to Arlovski while in half-guard, but for whatever reason, the referee of the bout [...]
The entire EliteXC: Heat fight card. A very good card, even with the Slice outcome.
As you could well imagine, controversy swirled around the EliteXC: Heat event that took place last Saturday in Sunrise, FL - the vast majority of it involving Kimbo Slice, Seth Petruzelli and the subject of this interview, EliteXC vice president Jared Shaw - wqho Sam Caplan of FiveOuncesOfPain.com managed to get an interview with. In [...]
Below is the fighter salary information provided by the Florida State Boxing Commission, courtesy of MMAWeekly.com for all MMA fighters involved in the EliteXC: Heat fight card:
Seth Petruzelli ($50,000/$15,000 win bonus) defeated Kimbo Slice ($500,000)
Jake Shields ($50,000/$10,000 win bonus) defeated Paul Daley ($12,000)
Andre Arlovski ($500,000) defeated Roy Nelson ($80,000)
Gina Carano ($25,000/$10,000 win bonus) defeated Kelly [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard the familiar refrain from Tito Ortiz: either he is on the verge of signing with a MMA promotion or is very close to signing; in other words, the ultimate tease. Well there was more of the same from Ortiz as during the broadcast of EliteXC: Heat on CBS Saturday night, reporter [...]
Watch Randy Couture and the Xtreme Couture Team Response to the Kimbo Slice Fight at Elite XC Heat on RawVegas.tv
Watch Randy Couture and the Xtreme Couture Team Response to Gina Caranos Fight at Elite XC Heat on RawVegas.tv
In the above two videos, Randy Couture and his posse at Xtreme Couture respond to the Petruzelli-Slice and [...]
I think - at least in my humble opinion - that rating numbers are more of a perception thing more than anything. Probably because unless you have worked for a major television network or one of the ratings services (Nielsens come to mind), I don’t tend to take much stock in the raw numbers. Be [...]
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