Yup, good point. Shields openly said he wanted to challenge the winner of GSP/Fitch.

I think they are building to tough matches, with the hope that you will pay to see those tough matches…example Carano vs cyborg…

Kimbo Slice is an Internet phenom. The thing about the Internet is that the Internet likes things free. The Internet doesn’t like to pay for things (pr0n, warez, etc.). And oh yeah, Kimbo Slice isn’t as popular as you think. It’s one thing for viewers to tune in for free, it’s another to pony up $40 bucks.

This is just sad. I don’t know what echo chamber you bounced these ideas around, but it’s not helping you.

And to be honest, I don’t mind you filling in the role of contrarian regarding every single thing I say. But if you have a need to be insulting, do so somewhere else. This is the site that I and others write on. Criticize the ideas all you want. I don’t care about that. But you’re being disparaging with “entry level analysis”. Please. I run one of the largest and most successful blogs in the entire sport, I have my own radio show about MMA on CBS radio, I’ve color commentated a televised event and am just getting started. There are even gigs behind the scenes I’m still working out I can’t announce yet. None of that, mind you, was handed to me. I earned it. Since you seem to think you have the trump card for every argument and angle, I can scarcely figure out what you’re doing hanging out around here. You should be out doing more than “entry level analysis” putting me and everyone else out of business.

But you don’t. You hang around here waiting for someone to float an idea – any idea – so you can play One Upsmanship with the guys who’ve actually accomplished something. It’s your way of leveling the playing field. But you’re not leveling anything. You’re wrong, but because you are exceedingly annoying, you’re hard to argue with. No one wants to engage you because it’s not productive or informative. You run with ideas as if they are self evident when, in fact, they are highly questionable. In fact, I could pull your one trick, too. I could wait until you write something just to pick holes in it. You’ll quickly find it’s exceedingly annoying.

So consider this your warning. If you want to list the points you do in the above comment, I have no problem with that. A couple are worth discussion. But the insults have to go. If it’s so taxing to read my work or the work of some other writer here, start your own blog. I would never go to a site with a reader I thought was continually off base. Do what you do over there. But save us the act. You’re not the first person to do it nor the last. We’ve seen this before. I’m just no longer willing to suffer through it.

Sorry, today’s theme is “OMG EXC DOOMED”. Please do not obscure that with your “facts”

Seriously though, between all the Kimbo matchups and the potential for a Shamrock vs. Shamrock match, they obviously have some PPV ammunition. So maybe LT’s imagination just sucks.

Though Affliction did put on a pretty strong supporting TV effort for their first show, considering the circumstances. They just need a more prominent partner, and coverage farther out from the show itself

Not all of us are wishing the death of EliteXC. I think free MMA on network TV is a great thing. However, EliteXC is putting the cart before the horse if they put on a PPV any time soon. They have to establish a following of fans, a brand and awareness.

Right now, there’s nothing compelling about Kimbo Slice VS a can that would make me or anyone else want to put money down for PPV. What’s better, trying to break even to live another day while building the brand, or blow your their wad on a failing endeavor?