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Press Release: Elite XC Conference Call Notes
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Question: Jeremy, can you weigh in on that?

Lappen: Jake was more than happy to fight Drew. We're the ones who pulled him from the card. Drew basically pulled out of the last fight in Hawaii when he was supposed to fight Jake, citing a knee injury, then appeared, actually breaching his contract, by fighting in another event without clearing it with us. I think it was either a week before or a week after. I get the feeling, I don't know for sure, but I think Drew is going through some pretty serious personal problems. You know, those around him have been confirming that. He's been consistently breaching our agreement and taking fights. I think you saw recently he got in trouble trying to take another fight, breaching an agreement with another promoter he had. We didn't feel confident enough that we could depend on Drew to actually show up for a fight. We're obviously ecstatic that Nick was available. Nick Thompson is a more highly regarded fighter, has a great record. We think this is actually a more title?worthy fight. So we're very happy that we were able to put that on. Drew, if he can clean up his act, is a terrific fighter as well. I think he's got some personal issues he needs to solve before he can fight for us.

DeLuca: I'd just add to what Jake said, which is Jake has never turned down a fight that we've put in front of him. Jake is one of the top in the world. As he said, he's always eager to fight anyone else that's in his same class. To Jake's credit, he's never turned down any fight.

Shields: It would make no sense to turn down Fickett then ask for Nick Thompson.

Question: Doug, can you talk about the long range plans with CBS?

DeLuca: Absolutely. You know the plans at the moment. We're going to do four fights in our calendar year contract. It started at the end of April, beginning of May. You'll see another couple fights. That could expand based on the success of those fights to even more fights. That's kind of something we mutually agreed upon between CBS and us. There are options to renew that. So as far as a commercial deal goes, as far as putting great MMA fights on primetime, I mean, you're going to see a lot more out of that. Again, the better fights we put on and the more that the MMA fans come out and watch, I think the more fights you're going to see. CBS is a great partner, as is SHOWTIME. They're very supportive of MMA. They're very supportive of ProElite and EliteXC. We're excited to be in business with them. I think you're going to continue to see big stuff, milestone things out of us, CBS and SHOWTIME.

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