Kimbo Slice Vs. James Thompson

[bigboywasim]

Kimbo was on his back for a good portion of the fight. He showed some ground skills in this fight. I thought he did good in this fight. He said it himself he has a long ways to go.

[Tom Yum]

The fight was pretty good. Kimbo landed a big overhand right on Thompson's ear later on, splitting it open and winning the fight by ref stoppage? I believe.

Yeah, as far as I saw it - Thompson had the slight upperhand on the ground but gave away alot of shots in the stand-up. Its like he just let kimbo hammer away.

[GQchris]

I was actually cheering for the British dude to kick Kimbo's ass and disappointed that he didn't. I can't stand Youtube star Kimbo, I hope he loses really really soon, I think he's bad for the Sport.

[Storm0266]

I was not impressed with Kimbo at all. Although he has made tremendous improvements since training with Bas and now has some ground game, I felt he should have dominated Thompson. I don't want to say he lacks skill or technique but he certainly resembles more of a street brawler than anything else. I think a good MMA tactician who can dominate on the ground and keep distant between him and Kimbo in standup will dominate. Take away Kimbo's powerful haymakers and he really does not display much, IMO.

[treelizard]

I wasn't impressed with Kimbo either. I thought Thompson walked in with a distinct disadvantage, the alien lifeform that used to be his ear, and he totally could have submitted Kimbo in that 2nd round if he wanted to. Good fight.

[Tant01]

...[Have no doubt about this: Slice would be destroyed by any legitimate mixed martial artist. Had Slice faced ex-WWE champion Brock Lesnar, the current UFC rookie hopeful, he’d have been beaten in less than two minutes.
As it was, Slice struggled his way to a sloppy third-round knockout of a complete tomato can.
You can’t blame Slice, because he had no business being in a main event of a mixed martial arts bout at this stage of his progression. It takes years of training and sacrifice to reach the main event in MMA and Slice was only there because of the notoriety he’d gained in his YouTube street brawls.
It was kind of ironic that at the show’s opening, Shamrock said with a straight face, “You won’t find them fighting in a bar and you won’t find them fighting in the street.”
Really?
Well, this card featured a guy (Baroni) who fights in bars and another who made his name by fighting in the streets.
CBS should have known better.
The fans deserved better.
The sport deserved better.
The CBS folks ought to take a look at the WEC card on the cable network Versus on Sunday to see how an MMA show is supposed to be put together. They’ll learn from watching that show how to introduce the viewers to the fighters but not drag the show on like a book that goes on 200 pages too long.
They’ll see quality fights between trained and competitive MMA fighters.
Hopefully, CBS didn’t manage to turn off a large segment to the country to what is a classic and compelling sport.]



MMA's network debut mocks true sport - MMA - Yahoo! Sports

[DSA]

EXCELLENT FIGHT: until the third round, I thought the referee stop the fight too early. Kimbo did show good defence on the ground, but thompson clearly had the first two rounds won.

[chillaplata]

I also thought the stoppage in round 3 was much too quick. It's true Thompson had taken by my count four unanswered shots and was a bit staggered, but he seemed able to defend himself and did not seem badly hurt.

I usually would never question a referee's erring on the side of protecting a fighter, but here what the referee seemed to be protecting was EliteXC's investment in Kimbo, not Thompson's safety. The stoppage is especially hard to explain when you consider that the referee let Thompson pound Kimbo without much of an answer for what seemed like at least a minute at the end of the second round...

BTW a poster on another discussion board claimed that in round one or two the ref stood up the fighters when Thompson had Kimbo in side control. I thought I saw that happen too -- does anyone else remember it that way?

[chillaplata]

Good article on Yahoo Sports -- pretty much sums it up IMO

An entertaining disaster - MMA - Yahoo! Sports

[7r14ngL3Ch0k3]

disgusting fight especially for a main event on CBS!!!. embarrassing to MMA.

both of them had no clue what do on the ground for the most part.

If only Pulver vs Faber (or the whole WEC card last night) was aired on CBS, MMA would be the most positively talked about sport from then on.

[treelizard]

I think Faber is the best pound for pound fighter.

[Bjjexpertise@be]

I think Faber is the best pound for pound fighter.

He definitely is rather talented in almost all areas of MMA. I think the final fight for him is to fight Kid Yamamoto. Other than that I don't see too many fighters posing a problem for him at that weight class.

[treelizard]

He definitely is rather talented in almost all areas of MMA. I think the final fight for him is to fight Kid Yamamoto. Other than that I don't see too many fighters posing a problem for him at that weight class.

I was just so impressed at how good he was in all ranges, and how adaptable he was. He seemed to change his game plan every thirty seconds or so.

[Britt]

Good article on Yahoo Sports -- pretty much sums it up IMO

An entertaining disaster - MMA - Yahoo! Sports

Pretty much dead on.

[Tant01]

The kid is phenominal

I was just so impressed at how good he was in all ranges, and how adaptable he was. He seemed to change his game plan every thirty seconds or so.

Forget his tan body and big smile... ?



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