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.
The Kimbo Slice-Seth Petruzelli “Standgate” fiasco was in many ways the last nail in the coffin of EliteXC, but ironically, one day after the company shut down, they have has been cleared of any wrongdoing in an investigation of the matter by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, according to documents given to NBCSports.com.
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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.
No Comments | Filed under: Dana White, EliteXC, Gary Shaw, Jared Shaw, Jeremy Lappen, ProElite, UFC, UFC 90: Silva vs CoteThe 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.”
Due to the “interest” in the EliteXC alleged bribery scandal, the Florida Department Of Business And Professional Regulation has changed their minds and elected to move forward with a “preliminary investigation” after all.
Jennifer Meale, the Communication Director for the DBPR gave ESPN.com’s Franklin McNeil the news.
“While the Department of Business and Professional Regulation doesn’t have any reason to believe there was a problem with the Slice-Petruzelli fight, given the interest in it, the Department has begun a preliminary investigation to thoroughly review the circumstances of the fight.”
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.
No Comments | Filed under: Dana White, EliteXC, Gary Shaw, Jared Shaw, Jeremy Lappen, Kimbo Slice, Seth Petruzelli, UFC
The EliteXC drama continues…
It appears there’s a new development in the KJ Noons-EliteXC saga. In a report from Sherdog.com, Noons is now claiming he’s a free agent. According to Noons, when he was stripped of his title, it released him of his obligation to give EliteXC the two fights remaining on his contract.
“I’m a free agent.”
Sam Caplan did an interview with Seth Petruzelli yesterday. Seth stated that EliteXC offered submission and “Fight of the Night” bonuses in addition to a knockout of the night bonus. Here’s the excerpt.
Sam Caplan: So all of the conspiracy theorists going around demanding an investigation and accusing you of having accepted a bribe are crazy?
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.
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