A Slice of Reality

Everyone seems to be jumping on Kimbo's knob now and blogging about him suddenly going "legit". I'll be the first to say that Kimbo's fighting in the UFC has nothing at all to do with being legit and everything to do with Dana's need to produce more exciting fights. Dana knows that with Silva and Machida now holding titles, interesting and engaging fights in the UFC will be an ever diminishing resource. It also has alot to do with getting ratings up on the TUF show, and anyone who thinks Kimbo is going to be treated the same as the other competitors is a a fuckin' tard.

While this recent development definitely raises questions about Kimbo himself, it only serves to solidify the often echoed fact that Dana White is a double-talking, classless, shitheel cocksucker. For all the bullshit swirling around in the toilet bowl that is the UFC, this is something that is actually interesting. I would be a liar if I said I wasn't going to watch the next season of TUF (and I've never watched an episode before). Let's face it, people want to see Kimbo because he's controversial, he knocks people out, and he has an original look. While he almost pulled off a nice looking Kimura against James Thompson; Kimbo will need to spend a shit-load of time working on his ground game if he hopes to make it into the mainstream with the UFC.

As most can remember, Bas Rutten trained Slice when he first stepped into MMA, only to pull out of the position before Slice lost to Petruzelli.

"I know you've worked closely with Kimbo Slice. When do you think we'll see Kimbo fight again, and will you be in his corner again when he does? I stopped training Kimbo. I had him six weeks before the last fight (a loss to Seth Petruzelli on October 4), I talked to him about certain things that I didn't like, and he promised never to do it again, and then he started doing it again. If people come to me and ask me to train them, I want them to do what I tell them to do, because that's what they came for. ... Once you start doing different things, you're out. It's not because he got knocked out. This was already in progress long before the fight."

What could this have meant? What was the "thing" he was doing that Bas didn't like so much? Drugs? Was Kimbo going to practice railed on goofballs? I can't really think of anything Bas could've been talking about, but you draw your own conclusions.

All I really know about the fuckfest that has been Kimbo's career thus far, is that I don't know much. Lots of shady promoters, knockouts, controversy, money, and shaved tits; but isn't that why we all watch MMA to begin with?