Details on EliteXC’s 7/26 CBS Event
Yahoo! Sports’ Dave Meltzer reports the following preliminary details for EliteXC’s second CBS live event, scheduled for July 26:
- The company is trying to put together a dual broadcast with three or four fights on Showtime at 7:30/8:00 PM EST leading into the live CBS broadcast from 9-11PM EST.
- No venue has been selected, but the Savvis Center in St. Louis is under consideration.
- Robbie Lawler v. Scott Smith II will headline the CBS show. Jake Shields in a match to create a Welterweight Champion and Antonio Silva, potentially in a match to create a Heavyweight Champion, as well as a women’s bout featuring Shayna Baszler are also in the plans.
St. Louis seems like a nice short notice location given its proximity to Robbie Lawler’s training base at the HIT Squad in Granite City, Illinois. The Scottrade Center, formerly known as the Savvis Center, can seat 22,000 for basketball. Three five round title fights in one two hour broadcast looks like a recipe for disaster for a promotion that missed its window by almost one hour the first time out. Eating up the local affiliates valuable Saturday night newscast time is not the best way to make friends and could conceivably eventually lead some stations to drop coverage.
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