Who really stepped up for that Main Event at EliteXC?

Ya know what...

I'm getting tired of hearing EliteXC saying Kimbo stepped up, Seth stepped up, and they EliteXC stepped up to go ahead and make that main event happen.

First off Kimbo didn't step up they gave him a more money to fight a guy that was fighting on the undercard at a lower weight class. He fought because of the extra money they were going to pay him. Also it could have potentially hurt his reputation to turn down that fight because he is always claiming he will fight anybody anytime. So it wouldn't have looked good had he turned down a fight against an undercard fighter from a lower weight class. Not to mention I bet they pressured him in to fighting someone else even if he didn't want to for a reason I will get to in a minute.

Secondly same thing for Seth he didn't step up for the MMA fans. He done it because it was a great opportunity and a ton more money. He done it for himself more than anything else. Which I don't have a problem with but I don't call that stepping up in the way they are trying to make it sound. Now if he would have done it for no extra money I might have to agree with saying he stepped up.

My third point is EliteXC had to find a way to put on a Main Event fight with Kimbo in it or else they would have probably had to offer money back on those tickets they sold. Which they couldn't do because CBS footed the whole bill for the show just so they could put it on.

Why does that matter you might ask?

Well because in exchange for footing the bill for the show CBS got all the revenue from the show. So EliteXC didn't have any money to give the fans back if they had to cancel the Main Event. So to me that is why they found a way to get Kimbo in a Main Event more than any other reason. I bet they pressured Kimbo into fighting and sweetened the deal with more money to have to avoid the possibility of fans asking for their money back because they didn't have no money to give back. Not to mention they probably wanted to keep CBS as happy as possible because they would have done folded without that deal and canceling the main event would not have looked very good.

So in my opinion EliteXC didn't step nothing up to make that fight happen. They made that fight happen for their own reasons to cover their asses.

No way anybody is going to convince me any of the above mentioned stepped up to make that fight happen for us MMA fans. They all had their own reasons for doing it for themselves first and foremost before ever considering the MMA fans.