Kimbo's win was BULLSHIT
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After the fight was over the blood coming out of his ear was stopped quickstyle. It wasnt like dude was gonna bleed to death. Ill give him he was tired and his legs was wobbly but that didnt make them stop the fight in the first round when he was all woozy after getting rocked with more harder punches....
Kimbo fucked that dude up. He didn't tap. Its obvious to everyone Kimbo would get killed by a real MMA fighter, but it seems like all the real MMA fans have jumped on the hater bandwagon. Like its not cool to like Kimbo if you are a longtime MMA follower.
When they stopped the fight, that dude was one blow away from going to sleep.
When they stopped the fight, that dude was one blow away from going to sleep.
I saw that fight, they clinched for a bit and finally they exchanged and Thompson got caught (as he's known to do) with some good punches. Rogers didn't do nothin special...
Kimbo could have easily finished that fight in the second with ONE KNEE when he rocked Thompson. Chalk that up to inexperience.
Gotta give the people what they want, right? The people want to see Kimbos fists to his opponents face, then his opponents face on the canvas. Kimbo Slice don't throw knees ... :eyecross:
Kimbo could have easily finished that fight in the second with ONE KNEE when he rocked Thompson. Chalk that up to inexperience.
Gotta give the people what they want, right? The people want to see Kimbos fists to his opponents face, then his opponents face on the canvas. Kimbo Slice don't throw knees ... :eyecross:
Come on man, if you think people wouldn't be going crazy if Kimbo knocked Thompson out with a knee you're crazy. The people want to see Kimbo beasting people and putting them to sleep.
The clinch was Rogers defending the takedown that Kimbo couldn't and as soon as he got distance he took him out, violently. Kimbo was landing combinations on Thompsons glass jaw and couldn't put him away. Kimbo is inexperienced and hopefully he learns from what happened Saturday, which I think he will cause dude seems extremely humble in all his interviews.
No one knows what'll happen until they get in there and throw em though so we'll just have to wait and see.
The clinch was Rogers defending the takedown that Kimbo couldn't and as soon as he got distance he took him out, violently. Kimbo was landing combinations on Thompsons glass jaw and couldn't put him away. Kimbo is inexperienced and hopefully he learns from what happened Saturday, which I think he will cause dude seems extremely humble in all his interviews.
No one knows what'll happen until they get in there and throw em though so we'll just have to wait and see.
Kimbo/Thompson Fight
by: Bas Rutten
Of course I have been asked now already many times what I thought about Kimbo’s fight and performance.
First let me start by saying: “It was his 4th fight”.
The fight was hyped up so big that Kimbo needed a perfect performance to live up to the hype. Thompson had the chance of his life time so he trained insanely hard. People expect him to go down but they forgot that he stopped Don Frey and Hidehiko Yoshida, he has a suspect jaw, but he came in to fight!
I think this fight is going to be very good for Kimbo in the future. When you start fighting and competing and you never went the distance in a fight you never know what “getting really tired” means.
Ask any fighter on the planet if they fought more than 1 round when they fought their first couple of fights, how they felt. They will tell you that they thought they were in great shape but got tired really fast.
In training you can do pretty much anything to bring your heart rate up. Focus mitts, Thai pads, takedowns, running hills, explosive weight training etc. but NOTHING compares to getting tired in a fight, it’s just a whole different ball game.
But once you know this and experienced it one time, you know what to expect in the future.
That’s why I think that this fight was great for Kimbo, he really had to dig deep and boy did he do that. He was so tired at the end of round it was crazy, but he went out in round three and just started throwing bombs again, that says a lot to me about his will power, trust me, it has been tested here!
Did he make mistakes? Of course, but than again, everybody makes mistakes plus he’s training MMA for only a year. I think that he had a few really good escapes from the bottom. Of course I wanted him to buck up, explode and escape the last one and a half minute of round number two, but he didn’t.
He DID give his “thumbs up” sign to the referee telling him he was OK and that the short elbows didn’t hurt him. Still, he should have escaped but he told me later that he was saving energy for the third round and because he thought the elbows didn’t have any effect anyway, he chose that moment.
I told him that it wasn’t good to do because the ref can stop the fight PLUS what if you get cut? So that won’t happen again.
He also didn’t close his guard a few times and he should have done that. In round two he had James in a guillotine choke but didn’t close his guard, that was too bad because Thompson escaped exactly how I showed Kimbo that you should escape when your opponent doesn’t close his guard, but you learn from your mistakes so that won’t happen again either.
He had Thompson in trouble the first and the second round with his punches but he got a little bit too “hungry” and kept on hitting which means that he planted his feet and that means that your opponent can go for a takedown, and that happened too. But here I go again, you learn from your mistakes and that won’t happen again.
So I have to say that I am very happy with this fight and his performance and that this fight made him WAY stronger for next time. When you get caught in training by something, whether it’s a submission or strike, you learn from that, but there is nothing like learning it the hard way in a fight.
And than be fortunate that you STILL win the fight by referee stoppage is just the best.
He finished with hitting Thompson with a four punch combination with the last one of those being a hard right upper cut. Thompson staggered back and the referee stopped the fight. Was it too soon? I thought it would be great to see a few more shots just so that he was down for real. But I guess the referee had the two or three times that Thompson was hurt in the earlier rounds in his head, plus than he also got hit on his cauliflower ear that busted open and he had a different look in his eyes.
All the things that went wrong or he didn’t do, we DID train for, but like I said, training and fighting are two different things. I know him and when he sees the mistakes that he made and realizes that he probably would have won the fight when he would have closed his guard in round number two so that Thompson couldn’t have had escaped his guillotine choke, he’s not going to be happy and is going to make sure it won’t happen again, the same counts for the few little other mistakes he made, he will see them himself, and never make them again.
They say “fatigue makes cowards out of man”, well, that wasn’t the case with Kimbo, he kept on fighting, his technique got less because of it and people will now judge him on that, but that’s OK, he will be a different kind of animal next time.
All and all it was a great night of fights, I think that everybody who tuned in kept watching, at least a high percentage and that the evening was a success. It had great ratings and from what I understand CBS is really happy.
And one more time to finish this story, although Kimbo was the main event and everybody see him as a main event so expect this “perfect fighter”, this was only his fourth fight, he will tell you, and everybody else, that he’s still a little guy trying to learn the game. For somebody who did this only three times before, I say it was a great performance
Oh, and he didn’t tap just watch the show..
Godspeed and party on!!
Bas
P.S. People ask me if the fight should have been stopped at the end in the second round, I say YES because those are the rules, it should have been stopped because Kimbo didn't do anything to improve his situation. But I think what made the ref NOT do it was the fact that Kimbo was giving his thumbs up the whole time to let the referee know that he was OK.
This was the refs decission, not Kimbo's.
http://www.basrutten.tv/index.html
by: Bas Rutten
Of course I have been asked now already many times what I thought about Kimbo’s fight and performance.
First let me start by saying: “It was his 4th fight”.
The fight was hyped up so big that Kimbo needed a perfect performance to live up to the hype. Thompson had the chance of his life time so he trained insanely hard. People expect him to go down but they forgot that he stopped Don Frey and Hidehiko Yoshida, he has a suspect jaw, but he came in to fight!
I think this fight is going to be very good for Kimbo in the future. When you start fighting and competing and you never went the distance in a fight you never know what “getting really tired” means.
Ask any fighter on the planet if they fought more than 1 round when they fought their first couple of fights, how they felt. They will tell you that they thought they were in great shape but got tired really fast.
In training you can do pretty much anything to bring your heart rate up. Focus mitts, Thai pads, takedowns, running hills, explosive weight training etc. but NOTHING compares to getting tired in a fight, it’s just a whole different ball game.
But once you know this and experienced it one time, you know what to expect in the future.
That’s why I think that this fight was great for Kimbo, he really had to dig deep and boy did he do that. He was so tired at the end of round it was crazy, but he went out in round three and just started throwing bombs again, that says a lot to me about his will power, trust me, it has been tested here!
Did he make mistakes? Of course, but than again, everybody makes mistakes plus he’s training MMA for only a year. I think that he had a few really good escapes from the bottom. Of course I wanted him to buck up, explode and escape the last one and a half minute of round number two, but he didn’t.
He DID give his “thumbs up” sign to the referee telling him he was OK and that the short elbows didn’t hurt him. Still, he should have escaped but he told me later that he was saving energy for the third round and because he thought the elbows didn’t have any effect anyway, he chose that moment.
I told him that it wasn’t good to do because the ref can stop the fight PLUS what if you get cut? So that won’t happen again.
He also didn’t close his guard a few times and he should have done that. In round two he had James in a guillotine choke but didn’t close his guard, that was too bad because Thompson escaped exactly how I showed Kimbo that you should escape when your opponent doesn’t close his guard, but you learn from your mistakes so that won’t happen again either.
He had Thompson in trouble the first and the second round with his punches but he got a little bit too “hungry” and kept on hitting which means that he planted his feet and that means that your opponent can go for a takedown, and that happened too. But here I go again, you learn from your mistakes and that won’t happen again.
So I have to say that I am very happy with this fight and his performance and that this fight made him WAY stronger for next time. When you get caught in training by something, whether it’s a submission or strike, you learn from that, but there is nothing like learning it the hard way in a fight.
And than be fortunate that you STILL win the fight by referee stoppage is just the best.
He finished with hitting Thompson with a four punch combination with the last one of those being a hard right upper cut. Thompson staggered back and the referee stopped the fight. Was it too soon? I thought it would be great to see a few more shots just so that he was down for real. But I guess the referee had the two or three times that Thompson was hurt in the earlier rounds in his head, plus than he also got hit on his cauliflower ear that busted open and he had a different look in his eyes.
All the things that went wrong or he didn’t do, we DID train for, but like I said, training and fighting are two different things. I know him and when he sees the mistakes that he made and realizes that he probably would have won the fight when he would have closed his guard in round number two so that Thompson couldn’t have had escaped his guillotine choke, he’s not going to be happy and is going to make sure it won’t happen again, the same counts for the few little other mistakes he made, he will see them himself, and never make them again.
They say “fatigue makes cowards out of man”, well, that wasn’t the case with Kimbo, he kept on fighting, his technique got less because of it and people will now judge him on that, but that’s OK, he will be a different kind of animal next time.
All and all it was a great night of fights, I think that everybody who tuned in kept watching, at least a high percentage and that the evening was a success. It had great ratings and from what I understand CBS is really happy.
And one more time to finish this story, although Kimbo was the main event and everybody see him as a main event so expect this “perfect fighter”, this was only his fourth fight, he will tell you, and everybody else, that he’s still a little guy trying to learn the game. For somebody who did this only three times before, I say it was a great performance
Oh, and he didn’t tap just watch the show..
Godspeed and party on!!
Bas
P.S. People ask me if the fight should have been stopped at the end in the second round, I say YES because those are the rules, it should have been stopped because Kimbo didn't do anything to improve his situation. But I think what made the ref NOT do it was the fact that Kimbo was giving his thumbs up the whole time to let the referee know that he was OK.
This was the refs decission, not Kimbo's.
http://www.basrutten.tv/index.html
You a hater!!!!! lol was funny as hell when 20 people come out of nowhere as soon as Kimbo stood up.
you know what was funny though was that you can't even really see a good punch land from Rogers, and that guy was still out. I think he has just as good of a standup as Kimbo and has a better clinch, it'd be a good fight regardless.
Here's Rogers pre-EliteXC highlight reel. Granted he's beating a bunch of fat rednecks, but it wasn't like Kimbo was doing much better lol
you know what was funny though was that you can't even really see a good punch land from Rogers, and that guy was still out. I think he has just as good of a standup as Kimbo and has a better clinch, it'd be a good fight regardless.
Here's Rogers pre-EliteXC highlight reel. Granted he's beating a bunch of fat rednecks, but it wasn't like Kimbo was doing much better lol