The Ridiculousness Known As EliteXC

So, I'm sitting on my couch this Friday night watching a little UFC on Spike. As I'm waiting for the replay of the Thiago Alves/Karo Parysian fight to come on, I thought I'd rummage on the Internet and check out some the latest MMA news.

I head over to Sherdog.com (a great MMA website, for those who are unfamiliar), and I see they have the video up for the weigh-ins for tomorrow night's "anticipated" Saturday Night Fights card, produced by none other than MMA's relative circus show known as EliteXC.

I usually like to check out the weigh-ins for events, mostly just to see if anyone didn't make weight and to see the shame on their face. I watched the weigh-ins for this one and nothing out of the ordinary occurred for the most part. EXCEPT for two particular moments. (I encourage you to all check out the video on Sherdog.com.)

One of those is having Gina Carano getting naked on stage to try and make weight.  Now don't get me wrong fellas, I love the ladies, and Gina Carano is a good looking one at that, but the idea of having a female fighter stripping down to nothing on stage in front of the audience is fishy to me.

Now you may say, "Hey Jake, male fighters do it all the time." I would say that that is even unnecessary. Have the fighter go in the back and disrobe, and let us know if the fighter made weight or not. I don't care to see a bunch of towels held up and people looking the other way as a naked dude hopes he can make weight.

But as it pertains to female fighters, especially the most famous one in MMA, EliteXC, being the attention hounds they are, probably decided that this may be good publicity to have a good looking lady like Carano having to disrobe and having millions of dudes wondering what is behind those towels.

There is no need for that, and the idea that we want MMA to be legit, and especially for those people who want female MMA to be legit, I feel it does not in any way take a step forward in movement that by having female MMA fighters disrobing completely on stage when it's just as simple and more reasonable to do it in the back. 

EliteXC may draw a few more viewers though, and I'm sure it will be mentioned at least once on tomorrow's broadcast.

That wasn't even what b made me shake my head though. The last weigh-in, of course that being Ken Shamrock and Kimbo Slice, summed up what EliteXC wants as their niche in MMA. The WWE.

As both fighters are posing for pictures to the camera, Kimbo turns his back and out of nowhere Ken pushes Kimbo and all hell breaks loose. Ken Shamrock wasn't a good "actor" when he was in the WWF, and he hasn't improved.

I'm so tired of boxing promotions and now apparently MMA promotions choreographing "fights" at the way-ins, especially ones that are brutal to watch. 

I can just see it now.....

"Ken you push Kimbo and then Kimbo, you get all angry and push toward Ken and a bunch of people will get in between and you both act like you want to get at each other and maybe we'll make SportsCenter tonight?"

Why didn’t Ken just hit Kimbo with a steel chair, bury Kimbo alive, and then tomorrow night, when Ken comes out to the cage and says he destroyed the "phenom" that is Kimbo Slice, the arena will go black and Kimbo will appear in the cage and the main event will be on. 

I better be careful, I just may get a job writing for EliteXC in the few months it has left as a company.

The biggest shame is that tomorrow’s card has some really good fights that I'm looking forward to. (Shields vs. Daley is going to be a classic.) 

Now I feel undecided if I should watch any of the card because of the fact that EliteXC is not in the MMA business; they are just in business and the integrity of the sport is what is holding MMA back from becoming a next level sport, and as long as EliteXC is around, I don't see that changing much.

Am I going to watch the fight? Probably, because I love MMA and I want to see some great matches. Will I turn off before Kimbo vs. Shamrock? Probably not, cause I'm a sucker and I need some more material to write about Sunday.