In a second world title fight, Jake Shields of San Francisco and Nick “The Goat” Thompson of Minneapolis will collide for the vacant EliteXC 170-pound belt.

Stockton’s Nick Diaz will face Thomas “Wildman’’ Denny of Victorville, Calif., in a lightweight match and Shayna “The Queen Of Spades” Baszler of Sioux Falls, S.D., will take on Brazil's undefeated Cristiane Cyborg in a women’s fight at 140 pounds at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif.

Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased at the Stockton Arena Box Office (Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.) and Saturday (noon-4 p.m.), by phone at (209) 373-1700 and (866) 373-7088 (toll free) or online at www.stocktontickets.com.

The event is presented by Los Angeles-based ProElite, Inc.’s live fight division, EliteXC. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. PT. The first live fight is at 3:15.

Preceding the two-hour, four-fight broadcast on the CBS Television Network will be a three-fight, one-hour telecast live on SHOWTIME (8 p.m. ET/PT).

In the main event, Antonio "Big Foot" Silva will face Justin Eilers for the EliteXC heavyweight crown. In other SHOWTIME fights, promising Wilson Reis will meet Brian Caraway at 140 pounds and talented Rafael Feijao will be opposed by Travis Galbraith in a light heavyweight fight.

DeLuca: Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for joining. Really appreciate it. On the heels of, in our opinion, a very, very successful primetime premiere (May 31 on CBS), we’re all excited. We wanted to follow right up, keep the momentum going and come back with another fantastic mixed martial arts card. I want to thank all of our athletes who I think are some of the best in the world. As always, our EliteXC fight team has put together a world-class card. We have two title fights that night (on CBS, and a third title fight on SHOWTIME). We have Nick Diaz against Thomas Denny. We also come back also with a great female fight (between Shayna Baszler and Cris Cyborg). So everyone can see that we're committed to standing behind female MMA.

One of the other things we're going to do on July 26 that is going to be a first is that we are going from a lead?in on SHOWTIME to CBS. Actually, I wouldn't call it a prefight; it's a main card on SHOWTIME. MMA fans are getting three hours of unbelievable fight action that night. This will be the first time an MMA card goes from an hour on premium cable right into two hours on primetime network television. We're excited again about pulling off another first for EliteXC.