Kimbo Slice Live on CBS right now
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kimbos last round..........
http://videovault.morrisvideos.com/videos/kimbo-slice-vs-james-thompson-final-round-05-31-2008
http://videovault.morrisvideos.com/videos/kimbo-slice-vs-james-thompson-final-round-05-31-2008
No doubt...why would you go into a fight with your ear in that condition. That was the WORST ear Ive seen. He could have had it drained or some tissue WAY before the fight. I couldnt tell where the bleeding was coming from tho. It looked like it might have been coming fron his inner ear and maybe that the ref stoped it for that reason. Who knows tho
Me too man, nasty shit. Reminded me of the Antonio Margarito vs Lujan fight, but in that, his ear RIPPED off, not POPPED:
He knew this shit could have happened he should have handled this before the fight..who knows he might have won
different fight man. The picture I posted was from a boxing match, Antonio Margarito vs Sebastian Lujan....I was just sayin it reminded me of it.
"a trickle of blood appeared on Lujan's left ear, and almost instantly a couliflower ear followed right in front of the near capacity crowd bewildered who looked on as the ear grossly continued to turned red and black until further landed shots on it in the tenth round round made the top of his ear split in two as everyone gasped in near horror at the sight of it forcing the ref to halt the bout for the doctor to take a look, which was nullified by Lujan's own corner as they threw in the towel to save their fighter further punishment in the bout."
^^Even then the fight wasn't stopped because of the cut ear, the corner threw in the towel.
Here is the last round, lol you know its a bad sign when the ref says, "his ear is hanging off man!"
"a trickle of blood appeared on Lujan's left ear, and almost instantly a couliflower ear followed right in front of the near capacity crowd bewildered who looked on as the ear grossly continued to turned red and black until further landed shots on it in the tenth round round made the top of his ear split in two as everyone gasped in near horror at the sight of it forcing the ref to halt the bout for the doctor to take a look, which was nullified by Lujan's own corner as they threw in the towel to save their fighter further punishment in the bout."
^^Even then the fight wasn't stopped because of the cut ear, the corner threw in the towel.
Here is the last round, lol you know its a bad sign when the ref says, "his ear is hanging off man!"
You can't really blame the "gimmick" on Kimbo though. He makes it a point to always let people know that he knows he's still a baby in this shit.
The television networks and the fight promoters rushed in to capitalize on his popularity which puts him in an awkward position because of how young he is in the sport. Shit, he'd be stupid not to put his all into it considering the money I'm assuming they're throwing at him. It's not like he's going to say, "Come get me after I get my brown belt in BJJ", lol.
Anybody expecting Kimbo, at this point in his MMA career (if you can call it that) to be Mike Tysoning the competition is trippin and has bought into the "gimmick" that Kimbo himself (outside of bashing people's heads in) didn't create.
Come to think of it, has he even been training 2 years? A year? lol
The television networks and the fight promoters rushed in to capitalize on his popularity which puts him in an awkward position because of how young he is in the sport. Shit, he'd be stupid not to put his all into it considering the money I'm assuming they're throwing at him. It's not like he's going to say, "Come get me after I get my brown belt in BJJ", lol.
Anybody expecting Kimbo, at this point in his MMA career (if you can call it that) to be Mike Tysoning the competition is trippin and has bought into the "gimmick" that Kimbo himself (outside of bashing people's heads in) didn't create.
Come to think of it, has he even been training 2 years? A year? lol
brett rogers thought kimbo tapped
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dd-kimbo060108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
More questions than answers from Kimbo’s win
By Dave Doyle, Yahoo! Sports Jun 1, 2:54 am EDT
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NEWARK, N.J. – The closest Kimbo Slice came to providing the type of street beatdown that marked his rise to YouTube infamy happened during Saturday nights’s Elite XC post-fight press conference.
The hyped heavyweight street king from Miami struggled with James “Colossus” Thompson before putting him away in the third round of the main event of the first prime-time network mixed martial arts card.
And fellow fighter Brett Rogers wasn’t impressed. “I gotta be real,” said the unbeaten heavyweight. “I thought you tapped.”
Kimbo shot up out of his seat and said “that sounds like a challenge,” giving Rogers his trademark glare. A couple dozen people got in between the two fighters before the two could brawl backyard style.
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Slice’s posse spent the next several minutes staring at Rogers, but Rogers wasn’t the only person raising questions after Slice took some time to beat his British opponent, who came into the night a loser in five of his seven previous fights.
In the end, Kimbo gave the announced crowd of 8,033 at the Prudential Center what it came to see, delivering an early third-round TKO that would have been a knockout had it gone on another 20 seconds.
“It was a tough-ass fight,” said Slice. “I never underesimtated James. He used his weight well, had a good little minute it on the ground. He had a good little ground and pound.”
But how did it look to the viewers at home? Kimbo’s buzz had largely been fueled by the clips of his YouTube fights, where he had mainly crushed unsuspecting rubes in a matter of seconds. Saturday night’s promotion heavily leaned on Slice, leading viewers to believe another quick KO was on the way.
“We’ve put a tremendous burden on Kimbo Slice,” said Elite XC promoter Gary Shaw. “We’ve set the bar so high that anything other than a tremendous performance is going to seem like a letdown.”
The hardcore mixed martial arts fan might be able to appreciate some noticeable improvements in Slice’s game. He demonstrated the basics of ground defense, such as the time he kicked Thompson off in order to scramble to his feet in the first round. And he also took the feet to the ground and went for a guillotine submission.
Near the end of the second round, Thompson got Slice in trouble on the ground. The Manchester, England native pinned Slice on the ground, isolated his arms, and began raining down elbows, with Kimbo getting saved by the end of the round. But Rogers, and several readers chiming in on our MMA experts blog, felt Kimbo tapped, something he vigorously denied after the fact.
“Not one time did I tap,” said Slice. “I didn’t make any gesture of tapping. If he got me into a submission, he would have had to break something, because tapping isn’t in my repertoire.”
The judges weren’t sure how to take the fight, as one scored the second round 10-8 Thompson while another scored it 10-9 Slice.
If experts can’t figure out what to make of what they’re seeing, then the casual fan at home must have been wondering what the fuss was about.
“It’s not about me,” said Slice. “I can take a little ground and pounding, I won’t be tapping out from that. I’m still a baby at the game, I’ve got a lot of room to grow. I won’t be smoking as much, because I’ve got a lot of training to do.”
The Kimbo show was the main event of a mixed bag of action in the network prime-time debut, which included Gina Carano’s fantastic win over Kaitlin Young in the fight of the night.
But the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, which oversaw the event, had a lightning-quick trigger finger on fight stoppages, apparently not wanting to let unpalatable scenes play out on network TV.
Both Rogers’ win over Jon Murphy and Joe Villasenor’s TKO of Phil Baroni were stopped as soon as the fight hit the ground. Robbie Lawler’s no contest against Scott Smith in the middleweight title fight was stopped right at the moment a methodical match was beginning to turn into a dramatic struggle.
“For TV, we had a bit of everything, we had blood, we had intrigue, we had some controversy,” said Shaw. “We had a little bit of everything. … I never wanted this fight to end.”
The pacing of the show suggest the promotion needs to work out the kinks before their second broadcast. CBS viewers got less than nine minutes of action over the first hour and a half of the broadcast. The show also ran more than 45 minutes over its allotted time, no doubt sending network station affiliate general managers into apoplectic fits as they waited to cut to their local news. Such an overage would be unheard of on an Ultimate Fighting Championship telecast.
The broadcast was well into overtime when Kimbo kicked his game up another gear. He clobbered Thompson with a big right hand in his first strike of the final round, opening a gusher on the Brit’s left ear. Kimbo went in for the kill and rocked Thompson with his big fists. The referee stopped it before things got out of hand.
“I’m disappointed,” said the affable Thompson (14-9). “I thought I had a great chance. I thought I deserved it. I don’t blame people for asking why I was in here getting this fight. I just want to entertain, I’m an MMA fighter.”
Was it entertaining enough for the casual viewer to turn in a second time? “That is up to the fans to answer,” Slice said. “I think I did alright. They saw me go for a few things and succeed. They saw a good fight, that’s what its about.”
His promoter, however, didn’t wait for the fans to answer. “Kimbo pulled it out,” said Shaw. “He did what he had to do, I still believe he’s a superstar, I haven’t changed my opinion one bit.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dd-kimbo060108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
More questions than answers from Kimbo’s win
By Dave Doyle, Yahoo! Sports Jun 1, 2:54 am EDT
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Buzz Up
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More From Dave Doyle
* More questions than answers from Kimbo's win Jun 1, 2008
* Internet king Kimbo outlasts Thompson May 31, 2008
Yahoo! Sports
NEWARK, N.J. – The closest Kimbo Slice came to providing the type of street beatdown that marked his rise to YouTube infamy happened during Saturday nights’s Elite XC post-fight press conference.
The hyped heavyweight street king from Miami struggled with James “Colossus” Thompson before putting him away in the third round of the main event of the first prime-time network mixed martial arts card.
And fellow fighter Brett Rogers wasn’t impressed. “I gotta be real,” said the unbeaten heavyweight. “I thought you tapped.”
Kimbo shot up out of his seat and said “that sounds like a challenge,” giving Rogers his trademark glare. A couple dozen people got in between the two fighters before the two could brawl backyard style.
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Slice’s posse spent the next several minutes staring at Rogers, but Rogers wasn’t the only person raising questions after Slice took some time to beat his British opponent, who came into the night a loser in five of his seven previous fights.
In the end, Kimbo gave the announced crowd of 8,033 at the Prudential Center what it came to see, delivering an early third-round TKO that would have been a knockout had it gone on another 20 seconds.
“It was a tough-ass fight,” said Slice. “I never underesimtated James. He used his weight well, had a good little minute it on the ground. He had a good little ground and pound.”
But how did it look to the viewers at home? Kimbo’s buzz had largely been fueled by the clips of his YouTube fights, where he had mainly crushed unsuspecting rubes in a matter of seconds. Saturday night’s promotion heavily leaned on Slice, leading viewers to believe another quick KO was on the way.
“We’ve put a tremendous burden on Kimbo Slice,” said Elite XC promoter Gary Shaw. “We’ve set the bar so high that anything other than a tremendous performance is going to seem like a letdown.”
The hardcore mixed martial arts fan might be able to appreciate some noticeable improvements in Slice’s game. He demonstrated the basics of ground defense, such as the time he kicked Thompson off in order to scramble to his feet in the first round. And he also took the feet to the ground and went for a guillotine submission.
Near the end of the second round, Thompson got Slice in trouble on the ground. The Manchester, England native pinned Slice on the ground, isolated his arms, and began raining down elbows, with Kimbo getting saved by the end of the round. But Rogers, and several readers chiming in on our MMA experts blog, felt Kimbo tapped, something he vigorously denied after the fact.
“Not one time did I tap,” said Slice. “I didn’t make any gesture of tapping. If he got me into a submission, he would have had to break something, because tapping isn’t in my repertoire.”
The judges weren’t sure how to take the fight, as one scored the second round 10-8 Thompson while another scored it 10-9 Slice.
If experts can’t figure out what to make of what they’re seeing, then the casual fan at home must have been wondering what the fuss was about.
“It’s not about me,” said Slice. “I can take a little ground and pounding, I won’t be tapping out from that. I’m still a baby at the game, I’ve got a lot of room to grow. I won’t be smoking as much, because I’ve got a lot of training to do.”
The Kimbo show was the main event of a mixed bag of action in the network prime-time debut, which included Gina Carano’s fantastic win over Kaitlin Young in the fight of the night.
But the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, which oversaw the event, had a lightning-quick trigger finger on fight stoppages, apparently not wanting to let unpalatable scenes play out on network TV.
Both Rogers’ win over Jon Murphy and Joe Villasenor’s TKO of Phil Baroni were stopped as soon as the fight hit the ground. Robbie Lawler’s no contest against Scott Smith in the middleweight title fight was stopped right at the moment a methodical match was beginning to turn into a dramatic struggle.
“For TV, we had a bit of everything, we had blood, we had intrigue, we had some controversy,” said Shaw. “We had a little bit of everything. … I never wanted this fight to end.”
The pacing of the show suggest the promotion needs to work out the kinks before their second broadcast. CBS viewers got less than nine minutes of action over the first hour and a half of the broadcast. The show also ran more than 45 minutes over its allotted time, no doubt sending network station affiliate general managers into apoplectic fits as they waited to cut to their local news. Such an overage would be unheard of on an Ultimate Fighting Championship telecast.
The broadcast was well into overtime when Kimbo kicked his game up another gear. He clobbered Thompson with a big right hand in his first strike of the final round, opening a gusher on the Brit’s left ear. Kimbo went in for the kill and rocked Thompson with his big fists. The referee stopped it before things got out of hand.
“I’m disappointed,” said the affable Thompson (14-9). “I thought I had a great chance. I thought I deserved it. I don’t blame people for asking why I was in here getting this fight. I just want to entertain, I’m an MMA fighter.”
Was it entertaining enough for the casual viewer to turn in a second time? “That is up to the fans to answer,” Slice said. “I think I did alright. They saw me go for a few things and succeed. They saw a good fight, that’s what its about.”
His promoter, however, didn’t wait for the fans to answer. “Kimbo pulled it out,” said Shaw. “He did what he had to do, I still believe he’s a superstar, I haven’t changed my opinion one bit.”
