Found October 05, 2008 on Larry Brown Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
When Kimbo Slice busted onto the scene, I was skeptical about his success; I said immediately, despite my limited MMA knowledge, that he was being set up against easy opponents to rack up an impressive record. Looks like I was right, because Kimbo didn't even last 15 seconds with Seth Petruzelli in their fight [...]
12 Comments:
  • What surprised me was the lack of chin on Kimbo. It didn't seem that Petruzelli was landing a whole lot of clean blows, but they were definitely doing some damage. Kelly Kobold stood up to more punishment than Kimbo did!
  • Kelly Kobold is a real man.
  • Kimbo fell victime to the "Bully Effect." Whenever somebody stands up to the bully, the bully seems to lose all the false confidence they had. Look at Tyson versus Douglas. Once Douglas broke the bully down, everyone got a piece of him. Kimbo got served and Elite XC's product is proven to be wack.
  • I think it was a fraud, they didn't even give the man time to get up and defend himself!
  • I guess he caught him, but it looked weak, i dont know..................
  • It looked to me that with his second kick, Petruzelli low blowed Kimbo either below the belt or knocking him off balance. But the ref's were very quick to step in and stop the fight. Just dumb luck I guess.
  • lol "they didn't give the man time to get up and defend himself!" um in MMA when you can't defend yourself the ref is to stop the fight, when you can't defend yourself you get hurt. good stopage by the ref, Kimbo is a bum.
  • He knocked him down with the first punch. The guy hardly even had any chest muscles to speak of, and he cold cocked Slice making him fall down. After that first punch he didn't land anything clean, but he didn't really have to. Kimbo has a glass chin.
  • Have we had enough of this gimmick yet? I'm over Kimbo. He needs to move on to reality tv.
  • Pinkpanthrrr, do you watch a lot of mma? or just when it is on cbs? I really am asking, not trying to sound like a jackass.

    Anybody can get knocked down by any punch that hits you on the button. The same thing happened to GSP/Serra, Serra caught him on the button and it was over. The thing that did not happen in the GSP/Serra fight was GSP trying to get up only to get hit in the back of the head. I am not a Kimbo fan by any means, but love how he respects all the fighters. I dont know why Kimbo didnt touch gloves with seth. That threw me a bit, but whenever I saw that Seth was a Karate guy I knew he was going to know how to fight somebody coming full out. Kind of like Lyoto Machida, he is a great technical fighter, Karate black belt, and just overall top notch fighter.
  • Well I don't rent it often, or do the pay per view thing a whole lot. Last fight I saw was the Pierre fight a couple of months ago that was a blow out. I don't do mma myself if that is what you are asking. My kid takes karate? does that count? ;)
    I used to watch Pride alot. It got addicting. I don't really watch the ufc. It's ok, but I like watching a lot of different fights, not just one big fight like the way the ufc seems to be set up. I just don't like the ufc all that much the way everyone around here does.
    I understand anyone can be knocked down, but if you are a boxer like Kimbo is supposed to be, he would have not thrown his chin out like that or at least protected himself a little. Maybe he underestimated the kid.

    Also, I have been punched in the face before, and it isn't like you just fall down if someone hits you on the chin. I mean, you can either take a punch or you can't. It is just the way it is in my humble perspective.
  • ok let me rephrase this. I read this after posting and laughed a little.

    What I was trying to say was:
    For example, I get myself in trouble and get into a fight on the street with some girl my size but she has like scrawny arms and probably weighs less, has less muscle mass. If she punches me in the face, I might go down (doubt it!) or I might laugh at her. Probably the latter. NOW if I went and somehow ended up in a cage match with Gina Carano, the chances of me ever getting back up are slim. She would knock me out in less then three seconds and I would be kissing the matt. Nite nite!

    Such seems to be the case with Kimbo. Sure he probably whooped some a$$ in a few bars/clubs/highschools, but when you go and fight with people who get punched in the face for a living and have been doing so since they were 5 it is a different story.

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