A Response to Kimbo Slice

... and anybody else who thinks that they should be fighting the best fighters in the world without any real MMA experience.

I posted the abridged version in the comments of our little Kimbo section on MMA opinion.

Here's the long, ranting version:

If you're going to be a fighter, shut your mouth. There's been a long tradition of great fighters who don't talk shit, and there are days that I wish that would extend to the ridiculous gimmick fighters in the smaller shows. Still, I guess that's not how it works.

Obviously, it's important to be real with Kimbo, because the guy is not a legitimate fighter and he should know that. He's fun to watch, he's explosive, he's got a cult following. But all of those things are true for Butterbean, the only difference is that Kimbo's management is arrogant enough to push him as the greatest fighter in the world.

It's like the kid in school who always acts the toughest and peacocks, acting out and disrespecting people. Being loud and obnoxious and arrogant. Then he gets into a fight with the real powerhouse at the school and his freinds, who spent that whole time talking shit too, have to clean his ass up off the pavement.

The point is, one of these days Kimbo is going to go on youtube and make a bad yo' mama joke about Fedor, and the King is going to show up at his gym, dangeda-dangeda Baz Rutten's old ass through a wall and then proceed to beat Kimbo down like the rookie he so clearly is.

Nothing annoys me more than people who don't show respect to the guys who have built this sport up from nothing. Honestly, when Tito did it that was totally different, because he was trying to get attention for the sport and draw in fans. All Kimbo is trying to do is build up the fanbase for his beard.

Maybe he has a God complex, maybe he thinks that he's beloved everywhere because he got to have his last fight in his home town. Let me tell you, though, Kimbo has a major problem with most of the MMA community at this point, because everybody is sick of him disrespecting the guys that built this sport with their bare hands.

What was Kimbo doing while Chuck was knocking out NCAA wrestling champions? Videotaping his grimy-ass backyard pit fights?

I'll point this out again:

Kimbo has yet to fight a serious athlete. He's fought two over the hill, out of shape brawlers. I love Tank as much as the next guy, but even in his prime he wasn't much of a fighter, and now that he's past that point, it's done.

If Kimbo really wants to fight Chuck, he should start by scheduling a rematch with Sean Gannon, to show that he actually knows enough now that he doesn't need his manager to jump in and protect him every time he eats a serious shot, because if one of those punches came from Chuck, Kimbo's beard would not be able to absorb the force, contrary to what superpowers some might believe it has.

So that's all for Kimbo, and I hope he fights Ricco Rodriguez, so that fat, unconditioned hot-air bag can ground and pound Kimbo into respect.