EliteXC Heavyweight Championship
🇺🇸Elite Xtreme Combat. ProElite's promotion put MMA on prime time CBS in 2008 with Kimbo Slice. It collapsed 16 days after Kimbo lost in 14 seconds.
EliteXC crowned one heavyweight champion before it folded. EliteXC never had a super heavyweight belt.
ROLL OF CHAMPIONS
1 REIGN · 1 TITLE FIGHT · SINCE JUL 26, 2008
Newest first. Nobody has defended this belt. Open a reign for how it was won and lost.
NO.NO. 1CHAMPION🇧🇷Antonio Silva"Bigfoot"WONJUL 26, 2008TOOK IT FROMJustin Eilers (NEW BELT)HOWTKO R2 0:19DEFENSES0HELD2 MOSENDEDPROMOTION CLOSED
HOW IT STARTED · JUL 26, 2008
WON THE NEW BELT OVER Justin EilersEliteXC: Unfinished BusinessELITEXCJUL 26, 2008TKO (knees and punches) · R2 0:19
Stockton, California, USA
For the inaugural belt. Sources split on the finish: punches, or knees and punches.
HOW IT ENDED · OCT 20, 2008
PROMOTION CLOSED.
- Tested positive for boldenone after the fight. California suspended him for a year and fined him $2,500. The result stood.
SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org, sherdog.com
WHERE THE BELT WENT
Antonio Silva was still champion when EliteXC shut down, 16 days after Kimbo Slice lost in 14 seconds on CBS.
Parent company ProElite announced on October 20, 2008 that EliteXC would cease operations.
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