With that train-wreck of a main event this comes as no surprise…

…Elite who?

OK i look’t it up, EliteXC is garbage…don’t know why i even bothered. i dont recognize any of the fighters, except for a couple names and i wasnt impressed.

Do they have girls fighting???

yo – you all hatin on EliteXC. Show was good. Beat that last PPV UFC did. And it was their first one. Go watch the first UFC shows. nowhere near as good a production in quality and who heard of any of those guys in mainstream USA then? it was thru a rinki dink show like UFC, which became a huge commercial success, that Liddell’s are known. Even Pride didnt make him.

Elite’s main event was sucky. coulda been good. too bad.

but go ahead and compare a years old UFC to a first show by EliteXC. shows that out of the gate, it ranks high enough publicly to be mentioned and compared to it. plus it does so in an unfair scenario…unless you find an upstart and a veteran comparison to be fair. but then if you did, you’d compare a child on a bike just after removing training wheels to Lance Armstrong.

Rob, wonderful wishful thinking but this is like the USFL saying they can compete with the NFL. Its not gunna happen, you cant compare b/c UFC is already big now which means no1 will give Elite the time of day period. Yeh UFC started off rink a dink but it was back in the dark ages and now any of these cheeseball companies to try to cash in are just gunna slowly and painfully fade into oblivion like the LA Express of the USFL haha. These guys will have a couple shows and slowly disappear once they notice not enough $ is coming in to compete with UFC for fighters. The only company that can give UFC any comp. is PRIDE and thats not b/c of the show they put on but the caliber of the fighters. This is a 2 horse race, any other company who comes in this late in the game just doesnt stand a chance. Its nice to think Elite could start off slow and build a rep, but did you see what happen to WFA?? UFC will simply just outspend it and put it out of business. When UFC was starting up their was no market or competitors, now a days it is to competitive watch UFC owns all EliteXC fighters in 6 months time and its a distant memory.

I think the shows will get bigger once more veteran names begin fighting, i.e. Vera and Diaz. If they are paying the fighters more money to fight, expect more guys to flock to that organization. In time it will close the distance.

I don’t have a problem with multiple organizations, I’d prefer to see MMA every weekend instead of once or twice a month.

haha Rob youre an idiot..The first years of UFC was a joke…it was a bunch of guys thinking they were bad, then a little skinny guy teaching them BJJ. It has taken years of molding athletes into MMArtists. Now since the fighters of ELiteXC are already well rounding fighters in their own right, and they still cant draw a crowd, thats telling you something..It is a two horse race, when it comes to watching mma on tv, you want to watch good fights with high calibur fighters, not just fights because they are mma..ELiteXC isnt far above the amiture shows that hand out flyers, its good because fighters need that, but they are a minor league at best. If you are gonna get two washed up fighters for your first main event, atleast get the right washed up brothers.

UFC Unleashed needs to stop showing old fights that we’ve seen a hundred times. I get tired of watching Tim “Poopi Diaper” Sylvia kicking Trey Telligman in the head.

UFC Unleashed is a great promotional tool for the sport – but show recent fights.

I’m a veteran of many years in mma and a loyal fan to the ufc. That being said Rob had some valid points. Its not just about fighters knowledge and training but production and commentation as well goes into a show. The premier of elite was a fun show to watch if your a fan of mma and not just the ufc. There are many valid points one could make towards either arguement but the bottom line is I enjoy the extra competition and extra events to watch for free. Gina was fun and tough to watch their heavy weight was impressive (silva) and of course I look forward to seeing ‘the truth’ fight some more. Sure the main event was tarnished but if you guys were really there for the first ufc’s there where pay per view that cut out during the main event for going over the time limit. (they even changed the first official result in ufc5 Shamrock vs Gracie and deleted the announcement in the dvd)Hence the birth of time limits and rounds. Also making me smart enough to add 30 extra minutes to my dvr for the elite broadcast. Either way the sport is getting to big for just the ufc to contain. So while I of course believe their the best I’m personally excited to be able to watch some more fighting all for free and in HD.

yeah the sport is big for the UFC and Pride both to contain…Kind of like how we have the NFL…Now we have Canadian footballs leagues we can watch, European football, Arena Football….but these are all minor leagues…people still like to watch them, like people will still watch smaller mma shows…but you wont see Peyton Manning in any of these other leagues, if you want to be the best you have to compete with the best, and Im sorry if youre not in the Ufc or Pride you cant even be considered one of the best fighters in the world…so yeah they defintely wont draw as many viewers as these 2 shows, so rather than trying to compete, just take their position as a minor league

I must admit I’ll be watching the Pride event in next weekend as well. Some interesting fights that night. Won’t be like most UFC events but still a pretty good card.