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These pictures pretty much tipped everyone off that Seth Petruzelli wasn’t your typical mixed martial artist, or 30-year old male for that matter. Then Seth played the dog in Tom Lawlor’s UFC 100 “Who let the dogs out” ring entrance proving there wasn’t much he wouldn’t do for the sake of entertainment. So really, it shouldn’t come as a shock to see Seth’s training regimen for Ken Shamrock consisting of a half-naked Seth letting some Russian dude hit him with a stick in the middle of Siberia, yet somehow it still is.

You may remember a couple weeks back when Seth Petruzelli blasted Kimbo Slice for remarks he made on ESPN. Petruzelli claimed Kimbo was offered a rematch on three separate occasions, but turned them all down. Today, Kimbo found out about Seth’s comments on a conference call promoting his fight against Roy Nelson on Wednesday’s episode of TUF 10 and denied he was ever offered the rematch even once.

Here’s video of Seth Petruzelli’s first fight back since finishing Kimbo Slice. He took on Chris Baten last night in Tampa, Fl at Art of Fighting IV. The fight starts at the 3:10 mark and ends around the 5:50 mark.

I don’t know even know what to say about this…

Roy Jones Jr., Eight-Time World Champion, returns to Pensacola to fight for the first time since January of 1999 when he battles Omar Sheika at the Pensacola Civic Center on Saturday, March 21, 2009. Jones Jr. will be joined on the card by a handful of recognizable mixed martial artists in the hybrid MMA/Boxing pay-per-view event “March Badness.”

MMA Fight Card:

• Seth “The Silverback” Petruzelli vs. Doug “Rhino” Marshall
• Bobby Lashley vs. TBD
• Roy “Big Country” Nelson vs. Jeff “The Snowman” Monson

Full press release after the jump.

CR: The Garv via Fight Opinion

Where are they going? A week removed from EliteXC’s fall, not one EliteXC fighter is free and clear yet to sign a new deal elsewhere. That doesn’t mean the wheels aren’t turning though. Here’s the latest on a few of the fighters EliteXC left behind.

More EliteXC Heat photos at CombatLifestyle.com

In response to Seth Petruzelli’s comments on the “The Monsters in Orlando” show on 104.1 FM in Orlando the Monday following his bout with Kimbo Slice, former EliteXC Head of Fight Operations Jeremy Lappen claimed that Petruzelli was referring to a knockout bonus, not a bribe to keep the fight standing as widely suspected.

Surprise, surprise, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation who oversees the Florida State Boxing commission has cleared EliteXC of any wrongdoing in the StandGate scandal. The news comes from Mike Chiappetta of NBCSports.com.