:flip::flip: REED Attended a Local Boxing Card Last Night & Tivo'ed the CBS Elite XC Show....The Live Boxing Card was EXCELLENT & REED was EXCITED about Topping his Evening Off w/the Kimbo Fight... REED Checks Out the Show, then N the Midst of the Robbie Lawlor Fight, the Recording just STOPPED!!!!....CBS Gave the Elite XC Show the 8-10pm Time Slot & REED's Tivo Recorded Accordingly... APPRARENTLY, the Card Went PAST 10pm... BITCHES!!!... REED ps. REED Knows it's DOUBTFUL, but will the Fight B REPLAYED Anytime Sooon???...
That sucks REED. You didn't miss much though. At least u have Faber/Pulver to look forward to. Check that TIVO!!!!!
YAHOO: MMA's network debut mocks true sport It sounded like such a good idea when the news broke a few months ago that CBS would broadcast a series of mixed martial arts cards in prime time. But after watching its effort on Saturday’s Elite XC show from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the good news might be if CBS opts not to do another show. These were supposed to be the professionals who would show the amateurs at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, who do their own production, how it’s supposed to be done. And while neophyte play-by-play man Gus Johnson acquitted himself well and analysts Mauro Ranallo and Frank Shamrock didn’t embarrass themselves, the broadcast dragged on interminably. There was more chatting than “The Tonight Show.†Fighters were introduced as they made long, slow walks to the cage, then were introduced again once they hit the cage. Given that the show went 45 minutes over its allotted time, what do you want to bet the ring walks will be eliminated if there is another show on CBS? ADVERTISEMENT For some reason, particularly early in the broadcast, CBS chose to use its overhead camera to repeatedly show Elite XC’s skanky-looking cheerleaders doing nothing more than shaking their butts. This wouldn’t have been so bad had there actually been a fight on the air every now and then. But after the show had been on the air for 32 minutes, there had been 61 seconds of actual fighting. When it was 70 minutes into the show, there had been just 2:12 of fighting. The whole show was built around Kimbo Slice, the Internet-generated star whose street fights made him into something of a mythical figure in the sport before he’d ever faced a serious opponent. Slice’s name and face was everywhere in the days and weeks leading up to the bout. Considering the way this dragged on, though, you have to wonder how many folks were still awake when the bell rang to begin Slice’s bout with James Thompson at 11:27 p.m. ET, nearly a full half-hour after the show was supposed to have been over. While it was mostly C-level talent on display, the fighters by and large held up their end of the bargain. Brett Rogers delivered a one-punch knockout of one-time Syracuse linebacker Jon Murphy in just 1:01 in the first fight of the night. After glorifying loutish middleweight Phil Baroni as some sort of star – ignoring the fact he’d lost three of his last four and was just a decidedly mediocre 10-9 coming in – CBS looked bad when he was knocked out in 1:11 by Joe Villasenor. The next two bouts were sensational. Gina Carano outslugged Kaitlin Young after two rounds and middleweights Robbie Lawler and Scott Smith went at it fiercely until Smith was inadvertently poked in the eye in the third, forcing a premature end to their middleweight title bout. The main event showcased two mediocre fighters in mediocre condition, though after listening to Johnson, Ranallo and Shamrock, you’d have thought we were watching the MMA equivalent of Ali-Frazier. Have no doubt about this: Slice would be destroyed by any legitimate mixed martial artist. Had Slice faced ex-WWE champion Brock Lesnar, the current UFC rookie hopeful, he’d had been beaten in less than two minutes. As it was, Slice struggled his way to a sloppy third-round knockout of a complete tomato can. You can’t blame Slice, because he had no business being in a main event of a mixed martial arts bout at this stage of his progression. It takes years of training and sacrifice to reach the main event in MMA and Slice was only there because of the notoriety he’d gained in his YouTube street brawls. It was kind of ironic that at the show’s opening, Shamrock said with a straight face, “You won’t find them fighting in a bar and you won’t find them fighting in the street.†Really? Well, this card featured a guy (Baroni) who fights in bars and another who made his name by fighting in the streets. CBS should have known better. The fans deserved better. The sport deserved better. The CBS folks ought to take a look at the WEC card on the cable network Versus on Sunday to see how an MMA show is supposed to be put together. They’ll learn from watching that show how to introduce the viewers to the fighters but not drag the show on like a book that goes on 200 pages too long. They’ll see quality fighters between trained and competitive MMA fighters. Hopefully, CBS didn’t manage to turn off a large segment to the country to what is a classic and compelling sport. There’s no question, though, that CBS didn’t do MMA any favors Saturday.
I know Reed quite well regarding what he likes to see in MMA and I believe he would've really enjoyed last night's main event IMO, despite it's ending. Too bad you missed it live, Reed. You and your kids would've liked it, no doubt.
It was a night of exciting fights, sure the skill level wasn't there but the drama and excitement was. I really don't understand the hate. I guess Gatti Ward was a mockery of the sport of boxing :notallthere:
It had it's negatives, but it was by no means a disaster. The Rogers fight was excatly what it was supposed to be. The Smith\Lawler fight was great up until the stoppage. The girl fight was fun. The Kimbo\JT fight was entertaining. The commentary for the most part was good, and the production, intro's and all that stuff was well done. 2 minutes of actual fighting in the first hour or so was bad, but you had to expect that with commercials. Any event with commercials is not gonna have a good flow to it, and they needed to do all the interviews and bio's and such, because a large part of the audience had never seen any of these people before. Was it perfect? No. But people love to bash stuff just to bash stuff, and a lot of the bashing of last night's card is exactly that. TFK
For what its worth i enjoyed the fights more so then alot of recent UFC cards. The reason there was little fighting time in the first hour was because they had to introduce the sport. The average person knows nothing about ground fighting. If it wasn't for UFC educating me i wouldn't know what the hell all the different ground posistions were, i wouldn't know a kimora from an arm bar o what a spraWl is. Kimbo the hype job with no good competition so far was tested and we had questions answered. The best 2 MMA fights this year i have seen has been Cung Le-Shamrock and Lawler-Smith and both were in EliteXC.
I thought it was a fun night. And REED i know what you are saying. I was watching what i had recorded while it was still recorded. Meaning that my TV was on a different channel. I kept looking at the time and it was almost 11 and Lawler was still fighting. If i didnt change my record options to record 60 minutes after it was suppose to end, i would have missed all of the kimbo fight.
Exactly, the Kimbo-Thompson fight stoppage was questionnable and sure, it didn't deserved, if we talk about merit, to be main event, but the fight itself was very exciting with a lot of turn around. Overall, I felt the card was a bit dissapointing from waht I expected, most notably because I expected Viliasenor-Baroni to be a war and that there were too much questionnable stoppage, but it was far from a poor event, it was fairly good in terms of action. Most people trashing it are either eliticist mma fans or UFC tools who somehow feel threatened by eliteXC. Of course the level of the fighters isn't what it is in UFC, Dream of the former Pride, but if you expected it to be, that's because you're a moron and you have only yourself to blame.
Bullshit article written by an hack/UFC puppet who tried to pass off as a legitimate journalist. Everyone in the MMA community knows it, people shouldn't take his "article" seriously, he's just a unofficial P.R. guy for the Zuffa. And I love it how he tries to put Lesnar in a different category than Kimbo, shit, he's not even as proven as Kimbo as of now, he just beat a pure bum and was subbed in under a minute vs a washed up guy, wow, such a monster.
went to almost 12 here on the east coast, was recording it on dvd but ran out of space, so i know how ya feel
I was TIVOing the fight as well and started watching it about 30 minutes after it started to FF through the commercials. Luckily I noticed it stopped recording at 2 hours and there was no way the Main Event was over. I switched to Live TV and they were half way through the Kimbo-Thompson intros. Whew!!
