What a joke that was!! No Shamrock.. Kimbo's more concerned about the afterparty than winning the fight and gets beat by a reality show contestant. As far as I can tell, the only thing EliteXC has going for it is Gina. Why would Tito Ortiz want to sign on to this crap? Yeah, he'll make more money and dominate the (lack of) competition... but does any real MMA fan really respect EliteXC?
the only two fights that i can see for tito there are babalu and rafael feijao. very possible that he could lose both. otherwise, they don't really have access to LHW's...maybe bobby southworth, but that would be a hell of a boring fight.
What happened to Shamrock? I found a blurb somewhere on the net before the fight saying he wasn't going to be able to fight because of a bad cut? His brother wanted to take his place but they wouldn't let him?
Glad I went to the Carolina/UCONN game last night instead of staying in to watch this mess.
yeah, it actually turned out for the better, ncbri. i also read the rumours about frank wanting to step in. he hadn't gone through the medicals and what not, so they went with seth and scrapped seth's match vs. aaron rosa.
the rest of the show was very good, and the main event turned out to be better because of the change, too!
edit: to answer the question about ken...he claimed he was doing some light sparring and happened to catch a head butt in the process, opening a cut over his left eye. he needed stitches to repair the cut and he was, therefore, not cleared to fight.
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the only two fights that i can see for tito there are babalu and rafael feijao. very possible that he could lose both. otherwise, they don't really have access to LHW's...maybe bobby southworth, but that would be a hell of a boring fight.
bit of a strange signing, i guess.
yeah, it actually turned out for the better, ncbri.
the rest of the show was very good, and the main event turned out to be better because of the change, too!
edit: to answer the question about ken...he claimed he was doing some light sparring and happened to catch a head butt in the process, opening a cut over his left eye. he needed stitches to repair the cut and he was, therefore, not cleared to fight.