QUESTION: Scott, time-wise, is the turnaround good for you?

Scott Smith: It's perfect for me. It doesn't give me a chance to get fat and out of shape. I took about a week off of training, just to make sure the foot was fine. I started running a week later and then a week after that I started back to my Muay Thai and grappling. I never had a chance to get in shape. Instead of starting my training camp out by getting into shape – and usually I take a couple weeks to get into shape --- I'm starting out my camp by learning and staying in shape. So I'll be a better fighter this time now.

QUESTION: Doug, there's been talk that it's going to be difficult for Saturday's event to draw the type of ratings that the first EliteXC event did -- just because there was so much marketing for that event. What do you expect in terms of ratings and what would it take for you to deem it a success?

Doug DeLuca: We certainly are managing all of our expectations. It is summer. And we did have a number of good PR items going for us on the first event. It was the first event on primetime network television. That alone drummed up a huge amount of press for the event and a lot of people were interested in seeing.

But, look, I'm confident in our fight card. I'm confident in mixed martial arts and I'm confident at what we can do at EliteXC in terms of producing events and our PR team is second to none. So we've got a lot of press for this event as well.

We understand the numbers might not be as big as the first time, but (still) we're all expecting to do some good numbers. I really couldn't tell you what a success is, or what a success isn't. I'm just looking forward to putting on the best event possible and getting as many people out to watch it as we can get.

QUESTION: Last week you mentioned the possibility of a swing bout being added to the card. Have you guys gone through with that?

Doug DeLuca: We're definitely adding a swing bout to the card. We're still working on it. In a bout that we thought we might do, one of the fighters got hurt. We should have something in the next day or so.

QUESTION: Doug, how big is the Stockton Arena and how many tickets are sold so far?

Doug DeLuca: The Stockton Arena fits 10,000 fully built out. I think we have it scaled for either 7500 or 8,000. And we're definitely well up over half sold already and that was as of the weekend. I know we picked up a full head of steam on Monday. I'm not sure where the exact ticket sales are, but we're fully expecting it to be completely full.