The inevitable comments from Dana White on ProElite’s death are here, and as you probably expected, he’s a pretty happy guy. White calls it a “great day for MMA.” He then proceeds to rip into Jeremy Lappen, Jared Shaw, and Gary Shaw.
Dana calls Lappen a “three-time loser” who should take his law degree and go “screw up someone’s fucking court case” instead of MMA. The only thing that would be more shocking than Cote beating Silva this weekend is Dana extending Lappen a job offer.
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The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s investigation into the EliteXC alleged bribery scandal has commenced. What that investigation actually entails is now detailed in a report from MMA Weekly.
As Florida DBPR press secretary Alexis Antonacci tells MMA Weekly, the investigation will start with interviewing the EliteXC promoters. From that point, they may or may not move on to interviewing the fighters depending on what the initial interviews turn up.
Dana White is piiisssed! He goes off on EliteXC for the alleged bribery scandal in this video, and rightfully so. Of course, he’s assuming they’re guilty, but he pretty much has to to distance the UFC from the situation as much as possible. The whole rant is quote worthy, but my personal favorite is when he addresses $kala as “rapper whatever your name is, Shaw Jr.” Funny stuff.
And White actually had an analogy that made sense for once. Props to MDS at MMA Fanhouse for the transcription.
“It would be like the NFL, there’s a game between the Patriots and the Browns and the NFL goes into the locker rooms and tells the players, ‘Listen, the Patriots pull higher ratings if they make it to the playoffs and the Super Bowl than the Browns do. So here’s what we’re going to do: The Browns have a great running game. We’re going to pay your team more money if you just pass tonight, don’t run, because we need the Patriots to make it to the next level.’ That’s f—ing illegal. They’re being investigated by the Florida Athletic Commission. They ought to be investigated by the FBI, too.”
Steve Cofield of Yahoo! Sports and ESPN Radio 1100 interviews Kim Couture who was in attendance at the EliteXC “Heat” event in Gina Carano’s corner. She claims that $kala is a pervert and tried to sneak a peak during Carano’s embarrassing naked weigh-in. Big surprise, professionalism always seems to elude $kala. She also says the reason why Gina only made $25,000 while Kimbo is making a half a mil is because she’s still on a very long contract. Hopefully, she can renegotiate because $25,000 is ridiculous for one of their top drawing stars.
Zach Arnold put together a great article earlier on the mainstream media’s coverage of the EliteXC alleged bribery scandal. It has snowballed into a public relations nightmare for EliteXC as the mainstream press has picked up on the story. Dana White has finally broke his silence on the subject, and as you probably expected, he didn’t have anything nice to say about EliteXC. White’s former nemesis, Gary Shaw, who is officially still an EliteXC consultant, also put in his two cents, and it certainly doesn’t help EliteXC’s cause.
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If Jared Shaw had any credibility whatsoever with mixed martial arts fans prior to Saturday’s shocking turn of events, he pretty much lost it all when he was seen yelling at the ref as Kimbo was getting beat down by Seth Petruzelli, as evidenced in the animated gif to the right.
There’s not really any way to spin it, so $kala has elected to say he’s sorry instead.
“I watched the tape back today. While I think that the ref may have missed the (blow to the back of the head) call, my reactions at ringside - I saw them myself - were inappropriate and inexcusable.
“I apologize to the MMA community and the fans and most of all Seth Petruzelli as although my reactions can not change a referee’s decision, they were inappropriate at the time and over a heated and tense mixed martial arts event.”
“Again, I apologize to the community. I am all for fair mixed martial arts fighting and I am very happy to represent Seth Petruzelli.”
I almost want to give him credit for coming out and apologizing, but I’m a little skeptical of his motives and afraid I’m going to regret it the next time he opens his mouth and makes a public statement.
No Comments | Filed under: EliteXC/CBS: Saturday Night Fights III, Jared Shaw, Kimbo Slice, Seth Petruzelli$kala’s at it again in this video of the EliteXC “Heat” post-fight press conference. He calls Seth Petruzelli the “modern day Rocky Balboa.” Seth deserves all the credit he gets for stepping up last minute and beating Kimbo on the national stage, but $kala, like always, is way too over the top. A promoter’s job is to manipulate perception and turn it into reality, but you have to at least not come across as completely full of shit in the process.
Denial. Damage control. Call it what you will. I don’t think anyone is going to buy what $kala is trying to sell.
EliteXC is going to have to do something. With Kimbo’s aura smashed (as evidenced in the poll results), EliteXC is going to have to make a move. Their biggest problem is their roster. They have a lot of good fighters, and quite a few elite-level ones, but their roster is poorly lacking in depth that’s needed to create compelling divisions. Their best-bet is to merge or form a long-term partnership with Affliction. They have the fighters, and in many ways, Affliction needs EliteXC as much as EliteXC needs them. I expect that’s the direction they’re both moving towards, it’s just a question of whether or not they can reach a deal and work well together, and that is always easier said than done.
More EliteXC “Heat” post-fight interviews at MMARated.com.
It was going to happen sooner or later. EliteXC execs just never in a million years expected to happen tonight and the way it did. Pay particular attention to Jared Shaw behind the cage yelling and screaming right next to Jeremy Lappen. Lappen still appeared shocked well into the post-fight celebration if I remember correctly.
It’s not often you find something good being said about EliteXC VP Jared Shaw, aka $kala, on the internet. Quite frankly, he rarely does or says anything to deserve it. But, with Dana White’s recent comments about Jared on the latest episode of NBCSports.com’s MMA Fight Weekly, Shaw, of course, was inclined to respond, and I’ll give credit where credit is due. It was actually quite good.
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