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Multiple reports are surfacing that ProElite/EliteXC will be closing its doors as early as Friday of this week. If true, it appears EliteXC ‘A Night of Champions’ scheduled for Nov. 8, featuring the highly-anticipated vacant lightweight title match between Nick Diaz and Eddie Alvarez, will be canceled.

From Sherdog.com:

EliteXC “Night of Champions,” scheduled for Nov. 8 at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nev., is in jeopardy of cancellation as the promotion heads into what may be its final days of business, Sherdog.com has learned from numerous anonymous sources.

We’ve been inundated in recent weeks with tons of news and rumors of big fights coming in the next few months. Wanderlei Silva and Rampage Jackson’s third meeting was finally made official earlier today. Eddie Alvarez vs. Nick Diaz is one of EliteXC’s worst kept secrets for their next Showtime card, and Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ definitely wants his chance at redemption against Alistair Overeem on NYE. Three of the fighters involved in these matches recently spoke out on their upcoming fights. Here’s what they had to say.

Apparently, people get pretty upset when they aren’t paid money that’s owed to them. That’s what I hear anyways.

Everyone knows DREAM is in pretty big trouble, however the severity of the situation is highlighted by recent allegations that many of their fighters, specifically “foreigners,” aren’t being paid for their fights.

There’s two sides to every story, and KJ Noons has finally told his. Instead of holding a press conference, Noons has released an official statement to share his side of the recent EliteXC-Nick Diaz debacle. We’ve covered this story pretty extensively, so I was quite anxious hear what Noons had to say, and quite honestly after reading it twice, I found very little that actually “clears his name.”

Jared Shaw has responded to comments Mark Dion made yesterday regarding the KJ Noons/Nick Diaz rematch and the deadline that EliteXC imposed upon them. As you might suspect, Shaw had strong words for Mark Dion.

“[Negotiating] is the manager’s fiduciary responsibility for the fighter. But it’s also the manager’s responsibility to get his fighter to take the right fights that lead him to financial gains, and it’s up to the manager to make sure that he has the fighter understand how EliteXC feels about him. Otherwise the manager is painting whatever picture he wants to paint. And in this case, this manager — his 15 minutes of fame is costing his client his career.”