NO egad, you are not alone. There were a couple ladies watching the show Sat. and they both yelled at the same time “THAT’S A MAN” as soon as ‘her’ mug flashed on the screen.
But if you think Chris is ugly now, wait till Gina is done with ‘her’…

Elite XC in one of it’s ealier SEC reports stated it may not have the funds to last . They needed to pull of at least a 2.5 rating on CBS for its May 31 show.

The numbers for the 3rd event was close to the May 31 show. July 26 was not consider a success.

With these number CBS should air a 4th event, but risk losing a number of viewers with Kimbo’s loss, Elite XC needs to ensure they win the numbers rating regardless… or all is probably lost with CBS.

May 31 “Saturday Night Fights”: 1.9/6 with 4 million viewers
July 26 “Unfinished Business”: 1.0/3 with 2.62 million viewers
October 4 “Heat”: 1.8/6 with 4.38 million viewers

CBS has a 4 fight deal with Elite XC, so only 1 more to go, if they are going to sink like many are speculating because Kimbo lost, then they’d better make this an explosive card… don’t pull any punches and go down fighting and figure it out event to event, don’t risk losing it all by pulling any punches because they’re scared to shoot their wad on this one card. I luv’d that they partnered with Affliction, I wouldn’t be surprised if they partner up with Golden Boy’s Pay Per View Cards as well.

Fedor VS Arlovski
Kimbo VS Ken Shamrock
Tito Ortiz VS Frank Shamrock
Carano VS Cyborg
Shields VS Lawler – Champion VS Champion
Renato Sobral VS Seth Petruzilli”

First off Babalu vs Seth Petruzelli???????? Are you serious?

Second do you really think CBS would pay for that card? Because EliteXC and Affliction sure couldn’t. Just having Fedor and Tito on the same card would require a Congressional bailout to pay for. The money in MMA is in PPV, heck CBS probably isn’t paying them enough to make money on the shows as they stand now. Of course that card would be hard to make money off of even if it did good ppv numbers even.

I’d expect the next CBS card to be Kimbo vs Shamrock again and maybe Petruzelli and Aaron Rosa to opening the show instead of being on the undercard.

Kimbo’s not done, they can build him as fighter on the road back to redemption…. schedule his next fight with Ken Shamrock, casual kimbo fans will still watch him fight since they’ve gotten a taste of this crazy MMA rollercoaster sport. Fans continued to watch Mike Tyson after his loss to buster douglas. Each time Kimbo loses though, the ‘hype’ pill will be harder to swallow.

Elite XC is not done because Kimbo loss, it’s partnership with Affliction brings new and exciting talent to CBS. Now Elite XC can feel somewhat free to push and promote some of it’s bigger talent.

Imagine this next CBS ELITE XC AND AFFLICTION CARD.

Fedor VS Arlovski
Kimbo VS Ken Shamrock
Tito Ortiz VS Frank Shamrock
Carano VS Cyborg
Shields VS Lawler – Champion VS Champion
Renato Sobral VS Seth Petruzilli

A thrown fight on a “gymnastics floor mat” with weak punches. Its like a pillow fight at a pajama party. Kimbo lost before it even started, notice the post media hype and his reluctance to interview. Put mixed martial artist and street fighters in a real setting and level the playing field.

LOL what are you even talking about? Every MMA promotion uses some kind of padding, and Kimbo was fighting MMA rules. Why does the surface even matter? If it does, he’s never said so. You think Kimbo would have won if it was on concrete?

im gonna take a wild guess and say you’re new to MMA.

Well someone who was actually in it for a real career in the sport instead of the quick money probably would prefer to not be pushed into main events with all that pressure right from the start. Kimbo got paid what he did because he was a youtube star and he has been pushed as one of the best in the sport ever since even thought that is just not the case. There is nothing wrong with picking making the money now over building to a legitimate career but lets not act like he was some kind of victim of EliteXC here he was in on the Kimbo hype right there with them. You’ve seen some interviews where he was acting humble and that’s great but this guy has done a lot of interviews and not all of them are like that, he’s also a guy that wouldn’t even touch gloves before the fight and walked into Petruzelli’s interview after it was over.

Kimbo will headlined again!! The average fans who has no idea about UFC and Pride loved it.

And they all can’t wait for Kimbo to fight again.

I’m not saying Kimbo is Da Man, I actually predicted after they said Seth Petruzelli, I was Oh Man if this is NOT FIX, Kimbo would lose.

Yes, Kimbo is not yet up there. But to the average fans (And there are alot of them) who only know about MMA is the Kmbo Hype Show, they would want to watch Kimbo fight again.

But if Kimbo loses again, then He’s DONE.