You obviously watched a different fight than i did. He got his brain bashed in in the ground. He seriously has zero skills on the ground. He just layes there.
And He was more staggered in the seccond round and still won it. Ive got no doubt he would have been fine had the ref not interviened.
Im not "offended" by Kimbo living off hype. I dont care that he makes millions while more talented fighters fight for scraps. Triple A teams dont make millions. They dont get the top billing on Wednesday Night Baseball.
What i do care is for a company trying to make it big and compete with the Big Boy in the Room the UFC. Their main event was a joke. This was my first fight that ive seen Kimbo and i just wasnt impressed. Bas probably skipped the ground game at training camp. Kimbo is just Some street thug with very little skill.
Tank Abbot? Side Show. Never had the hype or status that Kimbo has.
Oh and yeah. Any MMAer with a decent ground game cleans Kimbo.
His brain bashed in? Obviously he doesn't have any ground skills, but doesn't a guy have to be taking actual DAMAGE for the fight ot be stopped? No doubt he was in an extremely bad position, and he had no idea how to get out of that position, but why wasn't the guy grounding and pounding? Seems like all he could do was do some elbow face washing and a couple of weak impact strikes. If his brains were bashed in Kimbo wouldn't have been moving his head into the guy's chest, and he sure wouldn't have been able to goto a round 3.
Go watch the replay, the guy was staggered and his eyes were glazed over when the ref stopped it, and the guy probably has a busted eardrum right now. Completely different than anything that happened in round two. Anyone who's had a bad ear infection or any ear damage can tell you that that isn't a good thing, you completely lose you're equilibrium. The guy was throwing a strike at the ref, he had no clue where he was. That fight was over, you don't have to like it, but it was.
And all this hype is squarely on your own perception. He's not making millions, he's had 3 fights. It's the same exact thing as Abbott. If Abbott was a sideshow, he sure had enough name value for WCW to sign his ass for a cool 7 figures.
You wanna bitch about this getting top billing on CBS, why don't you bitch to Dana White for refusing to agree to a deal to actually give away something decent on TV free for a God damned change instead of this bullshit reality TV stuff? The last "free" PPV was Henderson vs. Rampage. What happened to the promise of at least two free PPV's per year? In the meantime we have a UFC PPV next week a whopping two weeks after the last one, is on tape delay since its overseas, and about 3 or 4 fighters had to drop out of for injury. But yeah, apparently right now Dana is still too good to give that to fans free on Spike.
You can bitch about Elite XC all you want, but at least its free, which is a lot more than you can say for UFC now. And maybe the HW match wasn't an instant classic, but its sure as hell better than a lot of UFC's HW matches they've CHARGED people for. I rather see technically unsound amateur Kimbo Slice than some of UFC's past HW stuff, like snoozefests between Sylvia and Arlovski.
