Weaker card than the first one; are you kidding me? Lawler v. Smith is going to be great. Shields v. Thompson is a battle of two top welters. The ladies’ fight is good. Nick Diaz always entertains. And Feijao is the real deal. The will be the first and last time I read anything on this crappy site.

not a bad card at all. Dont think the ratings will be anywhere near what they were the first time.

who gives a shit about elite xc?

I don’t awlasy read this site, so can’t tell if you are being sarcastic with the following line or not.

“My question is, how did Elite XC go from throwing everything they had into their first CBS event, to putting forth such a meager effort for the second?”

This card doesn’t have the name power of Kimbo or Carano but it’s infinitely better from a fights point of view and I’m not sure how anyone could disagree. The best fight from the first show is happening again in addition to maybe th best possible WW fight it is possible to make outside of the UFC.

Nick Diaz is always fun to watch and Mrs Cyborg is devastating on the right night. On the undercard you have a heavyweight title fight featuring a Brazilian with outrageous physical talent and potential not to mention to returns of Feijao and Reis who are both great prospects in their own right.

It blows the first show away in everything but main event name value.

I’m actually looking forward to this card and the top 3 fights.

And I the reason they’re putting Diaz on this card is to hype the KJ Noons fight. The public isn’t very aware of Noons and Diaz because it happened on Showtime. This was they can have Diaz fight, show the clips of the pull apart brawl a hundred times, and then after the Diaz match bring Noons in the ring and do an angle to get their next match way over.

To put Diaz v. Noons on this card would’ve meant nothing. the “CBS audience” doesn’t know who Diaz or Noons are. This will be a great introduction for their October fight.

I actually think that there are a lot of possible upsets. Eilers is like 10-1 since leaving the UFC. I wouldn’t be suprised if Diaz didn’t make weight and Denny refused to fight him though. That could be a disaster for them.

Also I wouldn’t mind putting a little money on Nick Thompson of Thomas Denny either.

Wow, these odds are interesting. I am throwing down plenty of action on Thompson, I think he’s got Shields’ number.

Any combination of Nick Diaz and live television will only result in Les Moonves writing out huge checks to the FCC.

Well as a fan of mma I have to say this is very exciting to have so many mma fights on and available in such a short period of time. Its great to have these lesser cards to keep you geared up for the main cards from the UFC etc.. To me the sports recognition is what is most important for the longevity of any of the leagues, UFC, ELITE, AFFLICTION, DREAM, etc.. Clearly we’d rather see Fedor, Georges, Anderson etc.. but these cards that Elite puts on are great you never know who you might see transition to the UFC or other, and to know their fight history is great. I’m sure no one was that interested in GSP when he was fighting in some half ass lame show in Canada. But look at him now he sells out arenas!

Goat v. Shields is pretty cool, IMO.

“My question is, how did Elite XC go from throwing everything they had into their first CBS event, to putting forth such a meager effort for the second?”

Answer’s in the question here. They have no one who’s A) left over and B) ready at this point.

Excellent article, but I actually like the top 3 matches. Would like to see Michael Jackson’s.. uh… Nick Diaz’s face fall off. At least the main event will probably be full of action and not end in a minute or less.

Go go Goat FTW!