Anderson "The Spider" Silva seems to have had his toughest task in the UFC tonight with Patrick Cote.  Anderson seemed to have won the first few rounds of the bout but this is the first time Anderson has had to go into the third round of a fight in the UFC.

Silva won the fight via a freak knee injury in the beginning of the third round.  Silva threw a punch that missed but Cote's knees buckled.  The fight was stopped 39 seconds into the third round.

Fedor Emelianenko is widely considered the best heavyweight MMA fighter in the world.  He has beaten just about every top heavyweight on this planet.  He completely annihilated Tim Sylvia with a 36 second 100% beat down.  The only thing standing in his way from being the absolute greatest MMA heavyweight of all time is facing Randy Couture.

Randy Couture recently re-signed with the UFC after a super ugly contract battle after Randy left the organization because he felt he was being disrespected and because the UFC could not sign Emelianenko.  Randy himself is a legend in the sport seeming to always come out on top when labeled the underdog.  He's been champion in the UFC as a light heavyweight and as heavyweight.  He is 45 years old and, if you look at his previous fights at heavyweight last year, would seem to be at his prime when most MMA fighters are wash-ups.

The entire MMA community is foaming at the mouth at the prospect of these two in a cage.  A fight with Randy Couture vs. Fedor Emelianenko would very definately be the biggest fight in all of MMA history.  They both want to fight each other.  There is a ton of money on the table.  There is huge demand.  But the UFC and Fedor cannot come up with a deal.

Randy is signed up and ready.  Fedor's representatives call the UFC's offer unacceptable.  I say we just get these two in a cage.  The UFC needs to do everything in their power to sign Emelianenko to a one fight deal and get him in the Octagon with Randy Couture.  This should be the only match Joe Silva should be working on.  The MMA world needs to know, once and for all, who the greatest MMA heavyweight is.

EliteXC folds after losing millions of dollars the last two years.  ProElite seems not to have made an official announcement as of yet but the story first broke on the graciefighter.com website.  Nick Diaz was set to fight Eddie Alvarez in November.

This is no shock to the MMA community as most were very critical of EliteXC's business style likening it to Professional Wrestling style production. 

in its last show on CBS, Seth Petruzelli knocked out YouTube sensation Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson in fourteen seconds.  Petruzelli then went on "The Monsters in Orlando" radio show and dropped a bomb saying EliteXC told him to keep the fight standing.  This would be an advantage to Kimbo as he has very little to no ground game.

Petruzelli managed to knock out Slice and tumble the house of cards EliteXC was built on in one foul swoop.  Showtime was in negotiations with ProElite to purchase EliteXC and save the fight promotion.  Petruzelli's claims seem to have pushed Showtime in another direction and ProElite had no choice but to close its doors.

What a difference 24 hours can make!  A day ago Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson was set to matchup against "The World's Most Dangerous Man" Ken Shamrock on CBS Saturday Night Fights in the main event.  A day later Kimbo is TKO'd by Seth Petruzelli in one of the most bizarre series of events in MMA history.

Shamrock was forced to pull out of the scheduled main event against Slice because of a cut he recieved over his eye while rolling on the mat with one of his trainers.  Apparantley the cut was bad enough to warrant six stitches over his eye.  The athletic commission deemed the injury to severe to let Shamrock fight.  EliteXC called on Seth Petruzelli, who was scheduled to fight in an undercard bout, to fight Slice in the nights main event.  Slice took the bout after deliberating with his camp.  Before the night, Kimbo Slice had never even heard of Seth Petruzelli.

Kimbo Slice went right after Petruzelli as soon as the fight began and was immediately knocked down by "Silverback" with a short right hand.  The referee stepped in with just fourteen seconds gone by with Petruzelli the victor.

In the nights other fights, EliteXC welterwieght champion Jake Shields defended his belt against a game opponent in British striker Paul Daley,  Andrei "The Pitbull" Arlovsky defeated  Roy Nelson and Gina Carano reaffirmed her status as "the face of womens MMA" by taking care of Kelly Kobold.