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Two fighters, Kimbo Slice and Andrei Arlovski, received huge disclosed paychecks—$500,000 each to be exact— on Oct. 4 for their fights at EliteXC “Heat.” For one of them though, that may have only been the tip of the iceberg.

Deep down in Kevin Iole’s latest mailbag on Yahoo! Sports was this little nugget.

There are unconfirmed reports that Arlovski received a $1 million bonus that raised his overall compensation for the fight to $1.5 million.

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It’s pretty much a well-known fact that EliteXC had to pay Kimbo Slice and Seth Petruzelli extra money to take the fight at EliteXC “Heat” at the last minute, and understandably so. Neither fighter was under any obligation to fight against a different opponent than they contracted to face, and in Kimbo’s case, there was really no upside besides extra cash to take the fight.

Mike Chiappetta makes the case that Kimbo Slice hasn’t lost his drawing power as the result of his first loss. Now that I’ve had a little time to get over the natural reaction that Kimbo is worthless and done, I think his drawing power has taken a hit, but not to the extent as most people are saying. I won’t go as far as to agree with Chiappetta, but I think if EliteXC puts him back in the main event on CBS he would draw ratings somewhere between “Unfinished Business” and “Heat.” However, hopefully, EliteXC and CBS will come up with a new strategy such as putting headlining worthy fighters in the main event. I don’t care if Kimbo makes it on another televised card, but the headliner charade needs to be over.

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.

The overnight ratings for EliteXC “Heat” are in, and they’re very similar to the ratings EliteXC “Primetime” put up on May 31 in the first ever primetime network television broadcast of mixed martial arts.

TVByTheNumbers.com has the number and while the 18-49 demo share was only slightly down, more people overall and in that demographic actually watched America’s Most Wanted during the 9PM-10PM time slot.