Now this is just hilarious. San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson doing some “old school” training with none other than Kimbo Slice. HT: AOL Fanhouse via Rear Naked News  Read More →

When: Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 Where: BankAtlantic Center; Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Watch: CBS @ 9 p.m. ET EliteXC has already started selling tickets for “Saturday Night Fights III“: Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson vs. ??? @ HW Gina Carano vs. Kelly Kobald-Gavin @ 140 lbs. (not finalized) Card subject to change. All matchups are rumored unless... 

In the past, EliteXC has been late to finalize shows and the end result has been a short turnaround time to sell tickets to its live events. However, it’s looks like the promotion is learning from past mistakes as tickets for CBS’ Saturday Night Fights III on Oct. 4 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. at the BankAtlantic Center are already on sale through Ticketmaster... 

Dave Meltzer of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that CBS wants to build on the success of the May 31 EliteXC: Primetime show by holding another show on July 26 on the network: While not finalized, Elite XC promoter Gary Shaw said that CBS is requesting his company’s next two live specials for late July (believed to be July 26) and October. As things stand, plans... 

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IFL CEO Jay Larkin released a statement earlier today about EliteXC: “Primetime” on CBS: Saturday’s ratings success of ProElite’s show on CBS again shows that the market for the sport in the mainstream is growing, and we at the the International Fight League are very excited to be one of the industry leaders that can help grow the sport... 

Our good friend at MMARated.com, Ariel Helwani, worked overtime this week getting tons of great video pertaining to the buildup and aftermath of EliteXC’s debut on CBS. Ariel and his crew were able to get video of the post-fight press conference altercation between Kimbo Slice and Brett Rogers, which you can view here. MMARated.com also has a ton of other... 

There has been much said, post-fight, about EliteXC: Primetime’s main event between Kimbo Slice and James Thompson. The majority of which surrounds fight-fixing conspiracies, premature stoppages, phantom taps, why Kimbo will never be a top 10 heavyweight and how terrible it was that that fight was the main event on MMA’s first network card. Much of... 

During the post-fight press conference for EliteXC: “Primetime” on CBS, Brett Rogers questioned Kimbo Slice’s performance in his bout with James Thompson. Rogers had knocked out Jon Murphy previously during the night within one round. Rogers questioned Slice’s performance before Kimbo was even in the room but then repeated it once Slice... 

Huckaby just posted a great pros and cons article below so I’ll stick to the basics and give you some quick thoughts on the show. - Gus Johnson was awesome. I’ve always been a fan of Johnson’s work on the NFL broadcasts and the NCAA basketball broadcasts so I was excited to see him working with EliteXC in the same capacity. But his performance... 

Courtesy of Esther Lin (updated: Esther rules) at Combat Lifestyle, we have some great pics of the weigh-ins for tomorrow’s fight. See the difference between what a professional fighter who takes the fight seriously looks like (Kaitlin Young) and a fighter who is spoiled and can’t even make weight in a weight class that was created specifically for... 

Weigh-ins for EliteXC’s “Primetime” show took place today at approximately 2pm ET at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The Prudential Center will also play host to the fight card tomorrow night, which is set to air live on CBS. Pro Elite will be streaming preliminary fights live before the CBS broadcast begins. The results are as... 

FiveOuncesOfPain.com was informed by IFL President and CEO Jay Larkin earlier this morning that casual talks have taken place between his organization and EliteXC Live Events President Gary Shaw regarding an inter-promotional fight between IFL heavyweight champion Roy Nelson and Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson. According to Larkin, formal talks about a Nelson... 

Aficionados of adult feature entertainment will be saddened to learn that popular Internet pornography production company Reality Kings will not be allowed as a sponsor of Kimbo Slice for EliteXC’s first-ever CBS telecast on May 31. Reality Kings is a company that operates many highly-trafficked pornographic web sites and has been very visible as a sponsor... 

Perhaps the fight that Kimbo Slice wants the most, a rematch against Sean Gannon, who is the only man to beat him in a street fight. The grueling and brutal street fight has been seen by millions of people on YouTube and a sanctioned MMA fight between the two may come to fruition be year’s end according to the article about Kimbo in the latest ESPN The... 

EliteXC held a conference call today for the media. Featured guests were EliteXC promoter Gary Shaw, headliners Kimbo Slice and James Thompson, as well as Kimbo’s trainer and MMA legend Bas Rutten. By far the most entertaining bit came at the beginning of the call. A reporter asked about Dana White’s comments that BJ Penn would “destroy”... 

Pictures from this past Monday’s CBS Elite XC Saturday Night Fights media day held at CBS Studio Center in Studio City, CA. Gary Shaw was saying the right things to the media… “No organization owns all the best fighters and no organization owns all the best fights. UFC got this started, but we are coming now. When UFC looks through the rearview... 

A couple of brand new advertisements for the upcoming EliteXC: Primetime card on May 31. The first one features Kimbo as “Detective Slice.” Why? I couldn’t even begin to tell you. The second, which can be found after the jump, features Kimbo reminiscing with his mother. They’re both pretty entertaining and hopefully they hit the airwaves... 

Last night at the Academy of Country Music Awards, Mr. Slice was one of the presenters. He was rockin a 10 gallon hat and a pimp cane. The awards show aired on CBS, in case your puzzled about the connection between Kimbo, MMA, and the country music awards. Check out tons of Kimbo Slice content on FiveOuncesofPain.com  Read More →

During a Thursday conference call to promote EliteXC’s first-ever “Saturday Night Fights” card on CBS on May 31, EliteXC Live Events President Gary Shaw was asked to address a report by the web site MediaTakeOut.com that claimed Mike Tyson has “tentatively” agreed to fight Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson. The report, which...