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Caleb of The Fightworks Podcast joins us this week on Fight Opinion Radio to discuss the fallout from UFC 95, along with thoughts on a myriad of other MMA topics.

Pro Elite is not dead. So, what are they up to exactly?

In the immortal words of the late Vince Lombardi, "What the hell is going on out here?" That's what we ask this week with the news of Showtime having a fire sale of Elite XC's assets, including the fighter contracts of Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Jake ...

This week on Fight Opinion Radio: We deliver our eulogy for Elite XC, a promotion that had a world of potential and crashed just like every other miserable start-up in the Mixed Martial Arts business. What's next for Kimbo Slice, Gina Carano, Jake ...

Michael Wilbon of ESPN cheers the demise of Elite XC. Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports thinks Kimbo Slice is headed to Japan. Deadspin and The LA Times talk about the Kimbo/Seth Petruzelli stand-up scandal. MMA Memories thinks that Jeremy Lappen's role in ...

As we have focused on this past week, the hot issue regrading the Seth Petruzelli/Kimbo Slice fight has been the ’stand-up’ controversy. All of this, mind you, was started by Petruzelli’s own radio comments in an Orlando radio ...

Kimbo Slice gets knocked out in 14 , Elite XC loses their top meal ticket in the process, and the winner of the fight opens his mouth in a very bad way. Welcome to the fight business! We’ll do our best to make the case as to why you should care ...

Update: In this radio interview (time mark - 40 ), Dave Meltzer claims that he had heard about the Seth Petruzelli “stand-up” scenario before Petruzelli himself brought it up on the radio on Monday morning. “He’s backtracking. ...

A taste of what’s to come from the American sports media in regards to Kimbo Slice losing on CBS Saturday night. Jay Mariotti and Kevin Blackistone (a major boxing supporter and anti-MMA guy) were having fun ripping on MMA today on ESPN over the ...

Audio link here. This was not a good interview at the beginning, even with Dan Le Batard asking most of the questions. It improved a little bit towards the middle with Kimbo doing his best Dusty Rhodes impersonation as a common man. “James Thompson ...

This week’s edition of Fight Opinion Radio concentrates on the fallout from last weekend’s UFC 88 event. Is Chuck Liddell finished as a top-level fighter? Why does Dan Henderson have such a strange track record in terms of being on-again, ...

Consider this a group therapy session, as we spend this week’s show trying to figure out what the landscape of the MMA business is outside of UFC. Warning: You may get very depressed and fast. We discuss virtually every issue on the table and also ...

A great show for you this week, as we have three high-energy guests on the program. First, Jake Shields stopped by to talk about his latest win (over Nick Thompson), the prospects of facing Georges St. Pierre and how he thinks he could do against GSP, ...

They wanted to come on our show, so we gave them a not-so-cotton-candy Q & A session. Topics mentioned during the interview include: reports about Affliction pay cuts, will or will not Fedor fight on the Affliction show, reasons for why Shayna got ...

More information available in this AP story. Further details here, here, and here. What does it mean for the future of boxing and MMA in the state of New York? Eddie Goldman has some commentary on the story. Share This

Jeremy Lappen, one of the big bosses of Elite XC, joined us on the program this week to talk about this Saturday’s Elite XC event at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, CA. Check out the event’s fight card by going to EliteXC.com. You can ...

While we are busy fielding offers for advertisers, we took some time to interview Rami Genauer of Fight Metric to talk about Forrest Griffin’s unanimous decision win over Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 86. Rami explains how the Fight ...