EliteXC: Heat
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Promotion | EliteXC | |||
Date | October 4, 2008 | |||
Venue | BankAtlantic Center | |||
City | Sunrise, Florida | |||
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EliteXC: Heat is an upcoming mixed martial arts event to be held by EliteXC on October 4, 2008 in Sunrise, Florida at the Bank Atlantic Center.[1]
This is the third EliteXC show to be featured on CBS and marks the return of popular fighters Jake Shields, Gina Carano, and Kimbo Slice. In addition, the show will include a co-promoted heavyweight bout with Affliction featuring former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski facing the last and only reigning IFL heavyweight champion Roy Nelson.[2]
Announced Matches
Main Card
- Heavyweight Bout: Kimbo Slice vs. Seth Petruzelli[3]
- Welterweight Title Bout: Jake Shields vs. Paul Daley
- Shields defeated Daley via submission (armbar) at 3:47 of round two to retain the EliteXC Welterweight title.
- Heavyweight Bout: Andrei Arlovski vs. Roy Nelson[4]
- Arvolski defeated Nelson via TKO (punch) at 3:14 of round two.
- Women's Bout: Gina Carano vs. Kelly Kobald
- Carano defeated Kobald via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-27)
- Middleweight Bout: Benji Radach vs. Murilo Rua
- Radach defeated Rua via KO (punch) at 2:31 of round two.
Preliminary Card
- Women's Bout: Cristiane Santos vs. Yoko Takahashi
- Santos defeated Takahashi via Unanimous Decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27)
- Lightweight Bout: James Edson Berto vs. Conor Heun
- Heun defeated Berto via TKO (Strikes) at 2:18 of round two.
- Welterweight Bout: Lorenzo Borgomeo vs. Mickey Gomez
- Gomez defeated Borgomeo via submission due to an armbar at 4:06 of round two.
- Bantamweight Bout: Bryan Hamade vs. David Gomez
- Hamade defeated Gomez via submission due to a guillotine choke at 2:03 of round one.
- Lightweight Bout: Nicolae Cury vs. Jorge Bouchat
- Cury defeated Bouchat via submission due to a triangle choke at 1:35 of round one.