EliteXC president Gary Shaw and ProElite chief strategy officer and executive chairman Doug DeLuca have resigned from their positions with the MMA promotion according to ProElite’s latest SEC filing.
DeLuca also previously served as ProElite’s chief executive officer.
Shaw, DeLuca, Kurt Brendlinger, and David Marshall also resigned from the ProElite board of directors. Edward C. Hannah, Edward [...]

Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano will return to network television at EliteXC Saturday Night Fights 3 on October 4th at the Bank Atlantic Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The event will be broadcast on CBS. Carano will likely meet Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos at the event, while Kimbo may take on Brett Rogers, though several other [...]

The ratings for Saturday’s second installment of EliteXC Saturday Night Fights were down by 1.68 million viewers compared to the May 31st debut edition featuring Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano, according to TV by the Numbers:
And there really still isn’t much to say except for this: EliteXC Saturday Night Fights without any buzz surrounding Kimbo [...]

Robbie Lawler (c) def. Scott Smith via TKO- Round 2, 2:35
EliteXC Middleweight Championship
Nick Diaz def. Thomas Denny via TKO – Round 2, 0:30
Jake Shields def. Nick Thompson via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 1:03
EliteXC Welterweight Championship
Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos def. Shayna Baszler via TKO – Round 2, 2:48
Antonio Silva def. Justin Eilers [...]

An 11th and final fight has been added to an already stacked EliteXC mixed martial arts card this Saturday at the Stockton Arena.
A fight at 160 pounds between David “Tarzan’’ Douglas (3-1) of Stockton, Calif., and Marlon Mathias (5-2) of Curitiba, Brazil, was announced during Thursday’s final press conference at the Stockton Arena by EliteXC [...]

Planning is underway for a fall EliteXC event which will likely take place on September 20th and air on Showtime.
No location or venue has been determined for the event, though New Mexico is a rumored possibility.
ProElite, the parent company of the MMA promotion, first mentioned the event during a recent media conference call for Saturday’s [...]

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EliteXC “Unfinished Business” Betting Odds

Robbie Lawler (-240) vs. Scott Smith (+190)
Nick Diaz (-650) vs. Thomas Denny (+450)
Jake Shields (-340) vs. Nick Thompson (+260)
Shayna Baszler (-200) vs. Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (+160)
Antonio Silva (-575) vs. Justin Eilers (+375)
Rafael Feijao [...]

EliteXC Saturday Night Fights 2 “Unfinished Business” takes place this Saturday, July 26th, at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, California. The event will air on Showtime beginning at 8pm ET and will then switch to CBS beginning at 9pm ET for two-plus additional hours of MMA action.
Three title bouts headline Saturday’s event as Robbie Lawler [...]

Mixed martial arts fans attending this Saturday’s terrific EliteXC fight card in Stockton, Calif., will have the opportunity to meet Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano when they participate in a pre-fight autograph signing just prior to the opening bell.
The undefeated EliteXC fighters, perhaps the two most popular and recognizable athletes in mixed martial arts, will [...]

Leonard Garcia has agreed to a September 10th featherweight bout against former UFC lightweight champion Jens Pulver at WEC 36. [MMA Junkie]
Anderson Silva will likely face Patrick Cote in a middleweight title bout at UFC 88 in Atlanta. [MMA Weekly]
A long-rumored bout between welterweight contenders Thiago Alves and Diego Sanchez has been moved from UFC [...]

During a recent media confrence call EliteXC confirmed that popular but controversial heavyweight Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson will return to the cage in the fall, most likely in September or October on a CBS televised card, but his opponent for the bout has not yet been determined.
“The Ultimate Fighter 4″ runner-up Chris Lytle has signed [...]

A third meeting between recent Strikeforce light heavyweight title challenger Anthony Ruiz and Jeremy Freitag will likely serve as the swing bout for EliteXC “Unfinished Business” on July 26th. [MMAJunkie]
World Extreme Cagefighting has signed former NCAA wrestling champions Jake Rosholt, Johny Hendricks, and Shane Roller. Rosholt will take on Danillo Villefort in his WEC debut [...]

Lyoto Machida’s manager, Ed Soares, announced during a recent appearance on TAGG Radio that the light heavyweight contender will next fight in October against an opponent to-be-announced. During the appearance Soares also confirmed that Anderson Silva will indeed take on Yushin Okami next following his July 19th light heavyweight bout against James Irvin.
All of the [...]

Fedor Emelianenko’s manager, Vadim Finkelstein, has announced that the top-ranked heavyweight plans on fighting two more times in 2008. The first bout will be at an October Affliction-promoted event and the second will come in December at a New Year’s Eve event in Japan.
UFC veteran Joe Jordan will take on Ryan Ford in the main [...]

“Ruthless” Robbie Lawler of St. Louis will defend the EliteXC middleweight title against Scott “Hands of Steel” Smith of Sacramento in the main event on the second primetime broadcast of CBS ELITEXC SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHTS on Saturday, July 26, (9 p.m.-11 p.m. ET/PT).
In a second world title fight, Jake Shields of San Francisco and Nick [...]