EliteXC middleweight champion Robbie Lawler (15-4) and Scott Smith (13-4) will meet in a rematch -- less than two months after their initial meeting -- and they'll do it again on network television.
Their first bout at "EliteXC: PRIMETIME," which served as a co-main event to Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson's third-round TKO of James Thompson, ended in anticlimactic no-contest after Lawler caught Smith with an inadvertent eye poke in the third round. Smith maintained he was OK to continue, but officials refused to let the bout go on.
Championship bouts that are stopped early due to injury require the completion of at least three rounds. Because the stoppage came halfway through the second, no victor was declared, and Lawler got to keep his belt.
"Neither one of us wanted the fight to end that way, so we definitely have some unfinished business we need to take care of," Smith said during Saturday's broadcast.
Smith said his eye is fine, and though he initially thought he had broken his foot in the fight, he said it, too, is completely healthy.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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All I'll say is this. MMA is in big trouble because I am a fight fan and even I don't know when or where half of theses fights are taking place. How would someone who is new to the sport of MMA know whats going on and when? No publicity or advertisement coupled with piss poor production and performances. These athletes are going about this in such a lackluster way that they can't even make weight! These are probably the same pussies that are complaining about wages and contracts and wondering why MMA is not being taken as a serious sport and not being given any prime time slots. Whenever they are given a chance to showcase MMA, they blow it, in a big big way!
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