Bas Rutten on Kimbo Slice: "I always considered him my friend."

By Jason Benfari September 15, 2009Kimbo Slice and Bas Rutten were, at one time, considered a match made in heaven. Slice, an internet street fighting legend, needed MMA experience, and Rutten, a former UFC heavyweight champion, had plenty to spare and a noted penchant for teaching the sport. Their partnership yielded three consecutive victories, including the most watched MMA match up of all time when an estimated 7.3 million people tuned into CBS to watch Slice defeat James Thompson in May of 2008. But Slice's last fight revealed huge cracks in the relationship between Slice and Rutten. Slice was infamously dropped by Seth Petruzelli just fourteen-seconds into their match up last October. Not long after the loss Rutten revealed that the two had split. Rutten issued blame of the split squarly on Slice's broad shoulders. "He just turned into a different guy, he didn't need to do the things that I told him to do," Rutten told Fighters Only. &qu...