 As it often is, the Internet is all atwitter with shock and disbelief
early this week after watching middleweight champion Anderson Silva
waltz, cha-cha and merengue his way around the cage Saturday night
during his main event fight against Patrick Cote at UFC 90.
It was weird, no doubt about it. After the company spent
considerable time and money during the last few months propping Silva
up as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and an unbeatable
juggernaut he looked more like a goofy prankster through two rounds
against Cote, toying with the Canadian until his overmatched opponent
crumpled untouched to the mat with a knee injury early in the third.
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 After months of being condemned by mixed martial arts fans and media
for their faulty business plan, lackluster shows and listless marketing
the people behind EliteXC pulled the plug on Monday, announcing the
fight promotion’s parent company, ProElite Inc., had declared
bankruptcy and would cease operations by the end of the week.
Though the declaration came without warning and news spread
quickly across the Internet, it ultimately came as a surprise to no
one.
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 As it turns out, I was dead wrong
about the main event of UFC 89. Against the better judgment of others,
I picked Chris Leben to defeat Michael Bisping in Birmingham, England,
thinking “The Crippler’s” power shots and improved level of fitness
would win the day for the Oregon native and head trainer at Icon Sports
in Hawaii.
Obviously, that didn’t happen and so I’d like to
apologize to Bisping, the whole Bisping family, the Wolfslair, the
people of England, MMARated users everywhere and that one guy who
copied and pasted the text from my column onto various MMA forums
without giving me credit for it.
Sorry I doubted you, Mike. I
suppose this is what I get for going with my gut. The only bit of
solace I can take in being so bloody wrong is that most pro fighters were wrong, too.
Read the rest at MMARated.com.
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