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After Kimbo Slice lost to Seth Petruzelli on October 4th EliteXC will be no more. The organization does not have enough money to keep the business going.

The large fan base that Kimbo brought to the company has withered back to YouTube and his street fights. The company would have been better off postponing the heavyweight fight until the next show or getting to other heavyweight to fight. They made Kimbo their whole organization and to have him lose sunk the whole thing.This couldn’t be better news for UFC who has had to deal with EliteXC trying to take their spot light.

Now UFC can get on with the show without any distractions. I was reading another sports blog here on today.com and the blogger had a good point about something EliteXC had that UFC doesn’t. http://sports2000.today.com/2008/10/21/elite-xc-folds/

You can read the post here, but pretty much what UFC doesn’t have that EliteXC had is a women division. I think that it would be a great idea for UFC to bring a womens division into their organization. It would boost the fan base even more and even get more women involved with the sport.

Either way this is good news for UFC. Maybe they’ll consider a women’s division and expand their sport to a different audience. It could be good for the fans and for the sport.

I can’t believe I didn’t watch the Kimbo Slice fight. I had been waiting for it for a month and I guess I got to caught up with baseball that I forgot all about it, but I’m kind of glad I didn’t watch it because Kimbo was taken down in 14 seconds.

Now I’m not going to sit here and hype Kimbo up even though I like him as a fighter. I don’t really think he belongs in MMA. I think he is a great street fighter and he probably would have done better as a boxer. Well except for the fact that his stamina isn’t all that great. I mean most of the time he doesn’t need stamina considering he is used to knocking people out pretty fast. But anyways I’m getting off topic.

I’ve read in a couple places that the ProElite might have set the whole thing up. Which I really don’t care. I think Kimbo shouldn’t have fought the fight anyways. I mean he has been training this whole time to fight Ken Shamrock and then 3 hours before the fight he has to get prepared to fight Seth Petruzelli. Now I’ve seen all his Youtube videos and most of the time he pulls up to the guy he has to fight and just starts fighting. But it’s different in MMA considering you don’t know if the guy is going to stand there and throw punches(like in a street fight) or try and take you to the ground. So I can see why Kimbo lost the fight.

I can also see why he took the fight.

MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!

Kimbo didn’t care if he lost. He was getting paid. He made more money of that 14 seconds than he did on all his street fights put together.

As for it being set up I really can’t answer that. We’ll we just have to let the investigation happen and see what is found if anything.