UFC 84 Replay to Combat July 26th EliteXC Event

EliteXC will hold its second nationally televised CBS event on July 26, and the UFC will again counter EliteXC's offerings with its own content on Spike TV.

The UFC and Spike TV put together a Chuck Liddell tribute to counter the first EliteXC-CBS event in May, and this time, they'll replay UFC 84, one of the biggest MMA events of the year.

A replay of that May 24 event will counter "EliteXC: Unfinished Business," which features a main event of EliteXC middleweight champion Robbie Lawler vs. Scott Smith.

The EliteXC event, which takes place at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, Calif., features three fights on Showtime (beginning at 8 p.m. ET) before switching to CBS at 9 p.m. ET for four additional fights. Earlier this year, EliteXC struck a deal with the network to put four events on CBS Saturday primetime over the next year. (On Thursday, ProElite Executive Chairman Doug DeLuca confirmed that talks have already begun to expand the deal.)

In addition to Lawler vs. Smith, other notable fights include Jake Shields vs. Nick Thompson (for the first-ever EliteXC welterweight title), Nick Diaz vs. Thomas Denny, and a Showtime title fight as Antonio Silva and Justin Eilers meet for the new EliteXC heavyweight title.

The UFC and Spike TV's block of programming actually begins at 4 p.m. ET/PT with a replay of the July 19 UFC Fight Night 14 event, which is followed by "UFC Unleashed" and "Ultimate Knockouts 5." Then, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, UFC 84 reairs. The pay-per-view event featured UFC lightweight champ BJ Penn vs. Sean Sherk, Wanderlei Silva vs. Keith Jardine, Tito Ortiz vs. Lyoto Machida and other fights.

UFC 84, which took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, drew a solid crowd of 14,773 for a hefty live gate of $3,732,000 -- the fourth highest in Nevada history.