When I say we're fighter friendly, you can ask any fighter that's either won or lost in one of our shows, and they'll tell you what it is like to fight for EliteXC. How we take care of them, how we care about them before the fight, during the fight, after the fight. This is a fighter?friendly company.

As far as contracts go, I don't discuss contracts. But we're basically in line with the Muhammad Ali law. We don't sign anybody for 20?year contracts. We don't have any slaves, no indentured servitude here. Fighters fight for us because they want to fight for us because we treat them well.

I invite you, and any reporter to certainly go to any fighter that's fought for us and ask how we fight them. We treat them like the world champions that we believe all fighters are.

QUESTION: Tank, what weight are you at now and who are you training with for Kimbo?

TANK: I fluctuate between 261 and 67.

QUESTION: What camp or group are you training with now?

TANK: I just got my old friends that I've known for a long time and bang around with them. It's not really a camp or a team or anything. It's just buddies I've been banging with for a long time.

QUESTION: Gary, is a Ken Shamrock versus Kimbo a match in the future?

SHAW: Kimbo has a fight Feb. 16. Ken Shamrock's got a fight March 8. So why don't you ask me that question on March 9.

QUESTION: What weight is Ken going to be fighting at the Cage Rage event?

SHAW: I don't know. Right now I'm told by one of the fight team members it's unspecified. But if you email me, I'll be more than happy to give you the contract weight.

QUESTION: When are your plans to have Nick Diaz fight again for EliteXC?

SHAW: I think he's fighting on the April 26 card we're planning in Hawaii.

QUESTION: Is there any opponent decided yet?

SHAW: No, not really. But eventually we want to give him another shot at KJ Noons. He gave KJ Noons a shot. But not right back.

He's had surgery on his eye to repair all that scar tissue, and I think that Nick needed a rest. He’s doing the right thing for Nick right now. And we've encouraged him to rest as well.

I keep talking about Antonio Silva, and he's going to be fighting Gary Turner from England on Feb. 16. That should be a real exciting fight.

Gary fights for the Cage Rage brand. At first we said maybe you don't want to take this type of fight. He said, ‘no, I want the fight.’ He emailed us, and asked for the fight. Those are the type of fights we like to put on.