If published reports are correct, there is some dissension in the ranks at CBS over the company’s decision to broadcast the first live mixed martial arts event on network television this weekend. Chairman Sumner Redstone has said publicly that President and CEO Les Moonves “made a mistake,” when he inked a deal to put EliteXC on the air.
While Redstone turns 85 years old this week – putting him a few years past the 18-34 year-old male demographic that makes up the vast majority of the sport’s audience – and it’s safe to say he’s never seen an MMA fight, his comments call to question exactly how dedicated the media giant is to its relationship with EliteXC.
Our guess? Not very dedicated, and that could be bad news for EliteXC, since the promotion’s first show on CBS has the potential to be a complete disaster.
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 We’re not even going to talk about Machida. For now we’ll leave that little debate to the rest of the keyboard warriors and chat room tough guys until we can better get our minds around how such a good fighter can be so entirely unwatchable. But the Dragon aside, we learned five other noteworthy things from UFC 84.
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 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Having made a complete mockery out of the UFC’s middleweight division, Anderson Silva is negotiating to next defend his title against a pit full of alligators as well as 30 stealthy, bloodthirsty ninjas, sources close to the champion said this week.
Silva’s second round submission of top contender and former Pride champion Dan Henderson at UFC 82 on Saturday -- coupled with the UFC’s refusal to sign other top middleweights like Matt Lindland and Dennis Kang -- leave the champ without human peer. With the 185-pound division devoid of a mortal challenger, Silva said he would turn to fighting representatives of the animal kingdom and to classic marital arts movie archetypes like ninjas, drunken shaolin monks or perhaps a giant.
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