While the stunning performance that opened up the recent "EliteXC: Heat" broadcast has since become a footnote to the controversy surrounding the evening's main event, middleweight slugger Benji Radach (19-4) may still benefit from the win.

Radach said he may be in line for a title shot in early 2009.

"[EliteXC] hasn't given me a straight-up answer yet," Radach said. "But they're kind of hinting back and forth between getting [a title shot] right off the bat and also maybe fighting Scott Smith beforehand."

John Morgan of MMAJunkie.com reports...