FSN To Air Four One-Hour EliteXC Specials
FSN and ProElite, the parent company of EliteXC, announce today that FSN will telecast four one-hour special MMA cards Sunday nights at 9:00 PM local throughout mid-September and into early October.
EliteXC, the only MMA organization to be broadcast live in primetime on network television, has developed a stacked lineup of some of MMA’s top stars. The FSN EliteXC telecasts will showcase many of these elite MMA names, including internet sensation Kimbo Slice, MMA legend Frank Shamrock, EliteXC Lightweight Champion KJ Noons and Phil “The New York Bad Ass†Baroni. In addition, the telecasts will feature vintage bouts of other MMA stars, including Anderson “Spider†Silva and Uriah “the California Kid†Faber, from earlier in their careers when they fought in in ProElite-owned, King of the Cage and Cage Rage events
This four-episode deal is the first agreement in what FSN and ProElite hope will be a successful relationship, continuing to bring the highest quality MMA programming to FSN viewers.
“Our mission from day one with ProElite and EliteXC has been to showcase the incredible talent and excitement of our fighters and illustrate that the appetite of the growing legions of MMA fans can’t be satisfied by merely a single organization,†said ProElite’s Doug DeLuca. “FSN has a well-known history of success with MMA, and this partnership is another important step in developing an even stronger fan base for the exciting brand of MMA that ProElite delivers through EliteXC and our other organizations like King of the Cage, Cage Rage, Icon Sport, SpiritMC and Rumble on the Rock.â€
“ProElite has a great track record of staging top-notch bouts with big-name, impact fighters. FSN is pleased to be able to showcase EliteXC in FSN’s Sunday Night Sports Block,†said FSN Executive Vice President of Programming and Production George Greenberg.
EliteXC specials are hosted by Jay Glazer, alongside FSN’s MMA analyst and former Icon Sport champion Frank Trigg. Specifics of the televised bouts are still to be determined. FSN has a long history of MMA success, telecasting bouts from UFC, PRIDE, IFL and the July 2008 undercard of the Affliction MMA special.
Loading ...
i agree with where he said fans cant be satisfied with one organization. even if some of the other organizations dont have the most talent its nice to see live fights inbetween uf fights, robbie lawler? nick diaz, they should ifght every 2 weeks!
Nate Marquardt v Martin Kampmann @ UFC 88
thats not a bad deal
Cashin in on some of Zuffa’s star names! Haha. Nice. I’ll watch any fight that has Faber in it. That kid is a badass. Would love to see his fight against Tyson Griffin. Does anyone know what orginazation that fight was in?
This is exactly why EliteXC isn’t going anywhere for a while guys.
Sure they may eventually go under…but hopefully their tactics can enlist some change in the way Dana treats his fighters.
$200k for Bigfoot Silva? That’s got to open some eyes around the UFC with anyone coming off contract.
Unless your local team is playing and the program gets blacked-out in your area. Thanks freakin Diamondbacks, I missed the pre-fight banned program.
Nick Diaz should have gotten the big payday…Its was his hometown.
EliteXc has no fighters, the only thing that is keeping them together is Kimbo, and as soon as he faces someone decent, and he gets destroyed, the company is gonna go under.
Dannyboy,
Nothing Elite does will change Dana’s ways of business. Besides, Elite has nowhere near the success the UFC has had. That leaves the UFC no reason to use Elite as a brainstorming idea maker. Dana will continue to treat his fighters just as Hitler treated Polish Jews in 1942. Personally, I am getting tired of this fighter salary issue. Yes, most fighters should be paid more but I really want some logical reasoning/explanation from Zuffa/UFC giving fans like us a little more insight to the salary issues. Are we the fans using boxing and other major sports as a should be example for MMA?
um in boxing dana would tool him….tito cant box his way out of a paper bag…if tito would have showed up to the weigh ins of the boxing match he would have got detroyed at the fight!….remeber dana was on his way to a professional carrear in boxing and he was in fantastic shape for the fight with tito!
KOuch I hate having to go over this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again… but since I know you have a head made of stone I shall go over it one more time.
Elite & Affliction will be what opens Dana’s eyes…it will be the fighters coming off contract having something they didn’t know before. Affliction has more of a chance at opening people’s eyes than Elite but since they are at least willing to pony up equal pay to UFC events then that means fighters will finally have some leverage and the ones that secretly dislike Dana (and openly ala Huerta) can go.
Anyone know of a way to see everyone who’s got a contract coming to an end after their next fight?
If Affliction didn’t have to pay they wouldn’t…The only real pepsi to Zuffa’s coke is the unfortunately
named Dream. Distance gives it gravitas not money…