The rumored Strikeforce purchase of Pro Elite is a done deal. The California based promotion issued a press release today indicating that they’ve acquired “certain fighter contracts” as well as the EliteXC tape library. It’s not mentioned in the release, but they’ve also worked out a deal with Showtime for quarterly live events [...]
Obviously a busy day in the Strikeforce offices–the promotion has inked a fight between Benji Radach and Scott Smith for a 4/11/09 card in San Jose.
With the ink still drying on the contract that finalized Strikeforce’s acquisition of select PreElite/EliteXC assets, former EliteXC fighter Benji Radach (19-4) and recent Strikeforce import Scott Smith [...]
A rumor afoot at this hour that Scott Coker of Strikeforce will be purchasing the assets of Pro Elite/EliteXC. An announcement is reportedly forthcoming within the next 48 hours. We’ll hold fire with our analysis until this is a done deal, but this a potentially huge development for the sport. Stay tuned…
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MMA Junkie is reporting that KJ Noons himself says there’s nothing to reports of a deal with the UFC. You know its been a slow news cycle in the MMA world over the past couple of weeks when made up stories like this one and the one about the Forrest Griffin injury start making [...]
Mark Hominick has been forced to withdraw from his bout at Affliction: Day of Reckoning due to a bout with pneumonia. He’ll be replaced by former EliteXC fighter Bao Quach:
Bao Quach (15-8-1), an EliteXC veteran who’s won his past nine fights, has been chosen as a replacement for Mark Hominick, who was recently forced [...]
There’s a lot of coverage in the Boise area on the death of Justin Eilers. Local law enforcement are describing his death as a domestic situation that escalated to an “unfortunate end”. Eilers is being remembered by the local MMA community as a guy who never forgot his roots:
Eilers’ training partner, Mitch Coats, [...]
Dave “Pee Wee” Herman, the hard hitting heavyweight prospect most recently seen in EliteXC, has signed to fight Choi Mu Bae on the Sengoku Non Ran New Years’ Card.
Here’s Kimbo Slice picking up his luggage at the Tokyo Airport:
Michael David Smith at AOL Fanhouse tracked down some of Kimbo Slice’s commentary during the K-1 World GP Final English broadcast. Kimbo was better at the commentary when he had a fight to talk about and didn’t have to carry the broadcast by himself. His opening line: ‘I love the city of Japan’ [...]
Contrary to rumors, Mark Ecko isn’t in negotiations to buy the assets of EliteXC:
Cross Marc Ecko Enterprises (MEE) off the list of potential bidders for ProElite’s assets.
Laurie Baker, VP of Communications at MEE, alerted MMAFighting.com on Monday that the rumors are false.
“Marc Ecko Enterprises is not bidding on ProElite, and has not entered into any [...]
