I’ve watched Kimbo back on his You-Tube days and personally I am excited as hell to see him in action. I am excited to see it on Free TV. This type of exposure will boost Elite and help them build a name for themself as well.

Let’s face it Showtime doesn’t do a great job promoting anything if you don’t already sunscribe to Showtime. Boxing, Series, Nothing. Elite XE is no different.

On Junkie I think.

Now I know he said “sold” but does that include comped tickets?

If this show doesn’t make enough money, there won’t be another show – all the eggs are in this basket.

don’t be so quick to trash fighters because of their history, everyone in the sport is trying to progress and i dont think any of these fighters have peaked yet. these fighters understand it is an important event and will try hard to make it memorable by training their asses off.

kimbo is working his ass off and just so you know, his trainers pick his opponents and kimbo fights who is put in front of him. brock lesnar gets just as many chances in the ufc, mir hadn’t won since his accident (to his credit though he wasnt taking the easy road back) and the previously arranged coleman fight was going to be within his skill. coleman’s most effective weapon of his g&p is his knee’s…which aren’t legal in the ufc.

james thompsons isn’t necessarily a bad fighter, he just can’t pace himself. some fighters are sprinters and james is definately one of them. his key to winning this is to not run into a shit storm of haymakers. we’ll see if his new gym can help him get a good gameplan together.

villasenor: 0-2 in pride, yah but those loses were to ryo chonan (split decision) and ninja rua. anderson silva has also lost to ryo chonan, i guess he sucks too.

lawlers faught some tough guys and come away with wins and loses. mirko lost a couple fights in the ufc too, he’s shit too.

on another note there were some mentions by some people whose CBS affiliates are not carrying the fight in ohio and possibly elsewhere. in its place will be the children’s miracle telethon, most likely followed by reruns.

Kimbo- hasn’t beaten anyone of significance yet.
Thompson- one of the weakest chins in all of MMA.

Baroni- Lost his last 4 UFC fights
Villasenor- went 0-2 in Pride

Lawler- improved lately but slumped at the end of his UFC run
Smith- only 1-2 in UFC and his ground game needs a lot of work

Carano- potential star for womens MMA but still unproven and gets a lot of preferential treatment by EliteXC.
Young- for an opponent for Gina isn’t too bad all things considered.

But think about it, who really wants to pay to see second rate fighters?

Lawler couldn’t make it in the UFC, Baroni couldn’t either and just about every other fighter has a bleak MMA record.

Kimbo is being fed another win. Why pay to go see this?

i don’t think EXC is doing a very good job marketing this event. i won’t be surprised if they give 5000 tickets away in the next few days just to make the place look sold out.