EliteXC/CBS Saturday Night Fights highlights

In the main event for the middleweight championship Robbie Lawler was cut in the second round when inexplicably Scott Smith basically quit fighting.



In the women's event, highly touted Shayna Baszler took a beating from Brazilian Cris 'Cyborg' Santos, setting up what should be a great bout between Cyborg and Gina Carano.



In other action, Jake Shields submitted Nick Thompson early in round one to win the welterweight championship, while in what I considered the fight of the night, Nick Diaz TKO'd Thomas Denny in a big-time slugefest.

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EliteXC to create women's title for my future wife

OK, well, maybe not exactly for my future wife, but I would be willing to bet that they know Gina Carano's waist size for the belt the champ will receive.

During a media conference call on Tuesday, EliteXC live events president Gary Shaw announced the intention of creating a women's title later this year, as well as possibly putting together an all-women's fight card to air on television in 2009.

And I wasn't totally blowing smoke about Gina being the first champ...

Shaw also confirmed that the first title would be at 140-pounds, although he didn't rule out possibly creating titles for women in different weight classes in the future. He also mentioned the winner of the fight between Gina Carano and Kaitlin Young as one of the likely participants in the first EliteXC women's title bout.

Here's a piece that ran last night on ESPN's E:60 featuring Carano...



According to my man, The Prophet, from The Savage Science:

[Gina will] need to look out for Shayna Baszler who could probably put on a few pounds and compete for the title. She's turned into a fighting machine since she began training with Josh Barnett early last year and hasn't lost since. Barnett got her to quit looking to standup and trade punches--I don't know her height but she looks shorter than a lot of the MMA fighters--and instead become a ground fighting submission monster (essentially the same way he fights). Check out the sick submission that ends this fight (below). She's really a cool chick--she's not supermodel hot like Carano but she seems like she'd be great to hang out and drink beer with.



Carano and Kaitlin Young will fight in a featured bout in the debut edition of CBS-EliteXC Saturday Night Fights on May 31.

A good story on Gina's preparation for that fight can be read here.

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