KIMBO,ELITE XC ON NETWORK THIS WEEKEND

[CarbonJames]

STARRING KIMBO SLICE, don't forget if you're a fan of his work.

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/8187922?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

STARRING KIMBO SLICE, don't forget if you're a fan of his work.

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/8187922?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002

Kimbo better bring his A game. This Thompson cat is no joke.


sidenote: This ain't even the biggest event of the weekend. Urijah Faber v. Jens Pulver for the WEC Lightweight belt should be a war...:nod:

[NoFear]

STARRING KIMBO SLICE, don't forget if you're a fan of his work.

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/8187922?MSNHPHCP&GT1=39002

Fight Party @ James :happy1: what time??? I'll bring some telephone books so you dont have to sit in the high chair to watch the TV :keke:


Kimbo better bring his A game. This Johnson cat is no joke.


sidenote: This ain't even the biggest event of the weekend. Urijah Faber v. Jens Pulver for the WEC Lightweight belt should be a war...:nod:

B*tch where you watching the Fight @????

[wever411]

Kimbo better bring his A game. This Thompson cat is no joke.


sidenote: This ain't even the biggest event of the weekend. Urijah Faber v. Jens Pulver for the WEC Lightweight belt should be a war...:nod:
i wanna watch that wec fight, should be good.

[dbuck]

Is this a PPV event?

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

B*tch where you watching the Fight @????

Yo mothers house...she said she gon be rubbin my feets :rofl:

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

Is this a PPV event?

Nope, primetime tv- CBS

[dbuck]

Nope, primetime tv- CBS

sweet...gonna watch this bia on my new 50":D

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

sweet...gonna watch this bia on my new 50":D

SAH'WEET....party numba 2 @ Danny boy's house :nod: BYOB






*that last B is for "bitches":keke:

[NoFear]

Yo mothers house...she said she gon be rubbin my feets :rofl:

NoFear vs CaJuNsOuLjA :nod:

Boy dont make me Knock you out! talking bout my Momma ... dont you know thats a NO NO

SAH'WEET....party numba 2 @ Danny boy's house :nod: BYOB

Bring your on B*tches, Beer, or Blowup doll ???

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

NoFear vs CaJuNsOuLjA :nod:

Boy dont make me Knock you out! talking bout my Momma ... dont you know thats a NO NO

Yaaayyyyyy...I get to practice :keke:

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

Brong your on B*tches, Beer, or Blowup doll ???

I see you knew EXACTLY what I was thinkin :rofl:

[Blue91]

Thompson has a very weak chin and it has been exploited numerous times. Wouldn't shock me if that fight is done in the 1st round.

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

Thompson has a very weak chin and it has been exploited numerous times. Wouldn't shock me if that fight is done in the 1st round.

True, the chin is guilty but I'm very curious if a dude with such an obviously weak chin would not test a dude with a rep for heavy hands like Kimbo's ground game a bit.

[Sifu-TZ]

Thompson has a very weak chin and it has been exploited numerous times. Wouldn't shock me if that fight is done in the 1st round.

hahhahaha thompson is such a joke, he's lost several of his last fights by ko. he gets knocked the fVck out all the time. he acts like a bruiser, and looks like a bruiser, but gets a slap and goes stiff. 8 knock outs in his career! kimbo needs to fight some real talent. I wanna see him in the ring with josh barnett, or noguerra. even rico rodriguez (minus the coke) might be fun to watch.

I have huge money on kimbo knocking him out in the first ten seconds, who wants in?

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

hahhahaha thompson is such a joke, he's lost several of his last fights by ko. he gets knocked the fVck out all the time. he acts like a bruiser, and looks like a bruiser, but gets a slap and goes stiff. 8 knock outs in his career! kimbo needs to fight some real talent. I wanna see him in the ring with josh barnett, or noguerra. even rico rodriguez (minus the coke) might be fun to watch.

I have huge money on kimbo knocking him out in the first ten seconds, who wants in?

Damn...yeah I see now dude has lost his last 6 of 8 fights...thats pretty bad. Guess he's a can afterall. I wouldn't mind seeing a Kimbo v Tito match as a test of how far along Kimbo's gotten..

[nels]

Thompson has a very weak chin and it has been exploited numerous times. Wouldn't shock me if that fight is done in the 1st round.

so true...he looks like a mad dog but then...
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i hope he luckily beats kimbo. i'd like to see kimbo vs someone like k. randelman

also fighting the same night is the chick from American Gladiators, Gina Carano or something like that.

[Blue91]

You're damn right Thompson wants to take it to the ground against him. The question is will he be able to get in close enough and do it before he gets KO'd, haha. If they get to the ground, things get a "little" more interesting. Even then, Thompson isn't known for a great ground game. Overall, he's a can that EliteXC is using to push their 2 fight "superstar" on the first network fight card.

[Sifu-TZ]

emilienenko looks like he just got up from a nap before he destroys thompson! and randleman would be a good fight too. the other good news? baroni is on the card, I LOVE seeing him get beat the fVck up. best eva? his claim, but he's 9-8. he's a nutgobbler.

[nels]

baroni in his prime

KPMHze_ZtI0

[ANTISOCIAL]

elite xc fights so far there was some knockouts 2 women fighting that was one of my favorite fights of the night . kimbo is gonna fight in a couple minutes !!

[CarbonJames]

kimbo is victorious, barely... he was tested tonight for sure..

[Nightster Ridester]

premature stoppage....should have waited till the white guy hit the mat

[Los]

I dunno.. I was going for Kim, but that was kinda weak.

[dbuck]

shoulda let it keep going....Kimbo was about to put his ass on the floor. All I could think prior to the fight was, damn, this Thompson dude should of had a doctor drain his massive ear. Well, Kimbo did that sh*t for free....:rofl:

[Pre-K]

Yup, they shoulda let it go...

[dbuck]

Yup, they shoulda let it go...

for the spectator yes, but that dude was in a daze....one more solid blow and that fool woulda been KTFO!

[FLYIN'DUC]

Missed it is there anywhere to see these fights?

[dbuck]

Missed it is there anywhere to see these fights?

my house...I got it on DVR:keke:

[FLYIN'DUC]

my house...I got it on DVR:keke:

Cool what time? isint Ur wedding next weekend? congrats:nod:

[YZFracer212]

ya that ear was NASTY, I think thats another reason they called it when kimbo hit that thing it popped like a balloon

[isoplus]

Most of the CBS crowd got exactly that...they got to C - BS!

[YZFracer212]

i thought it was a good card

[Blue91]

Way too many premature (doctor) stoppages. Is it any wonder considering it was on network tv for the first time? It's almost as if they didn't want things to get 'too' bloody and made sure they ended the fights early. Young stoppage was ridiculous. Smith stoppage was ridiculous. Thompson stoppage was premature.

[isoplus]

^^ +1

Not to mention Carano comming in overweight... :banghead:
Baroni is a joke!!!

[texlurch]

Kimbo was "done" at the end... he had nothing left in the tank. If he hadn't gotten to the Brit it may have ended different.

And the stoppage before in the title fight was complete BS, that one was just getting good.

[Whorenet]

here we go-yahoo sports review

It sounded like such a good idea when the news broke a few months ago that CBS would broadcast a series of mixed martial arts cards in prime time.

But after watching its effort on Saturday’s Elite XC show from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the good news might be if CBS opts not to do another show.

These were supposed to be the professionals who would show the amateurs at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, who do their own production, how it’s supposed to be done.

And while neophyte play-by-play man Gus Johnson acquitted himself well and analysts Mauro Ranallo and Frank Shamrock didn’t embarrass themselves, the broadcast dragged on interminably.

There was more chatting than “The Tonight Show.” Fighters were introduced as they made long, slow walks to the cage, then were introduced again once they hit the cage. Given that the show went 45 minutes over its allotted time, what do you want to bet the ring walks will be eliminated if there is another show on CBS?

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For some reason, particularly early in the broadcast, CBS chose to use its overhead camera to repeatedly show Elite XC’s skanky-looking cheerleaders doing nothing more than shaking their butts.

This wouldn’t have been so bad had there actually been a fight on the air every now and then. But after the show had been on the air for 32 minutes, there had been 61 seconds of actual fighting. When it was 70 minutes into the show, there had been just 2:12 of fighting.

The whole show was built around Kimbo Slice, the Internet-generated star whose street fights made him into something of a mythical figure in the sport before he’d ever faced a serious opponent.

Slice’s name and face was everywhere in the days and weeks leading up to the bout. Considering the way this dragged on, though, you have to wonder how many folks were still awake when the bell rang to begin Slice’s bout with James Thompson at 11:27 p.m. ET, nearly a full half-hour after the show was supposed to have been over.

While it was mostly C-level talent on display, the fighters by and large held up their end of the bargain. Brett Rogers delivered a one-punch knockout of one-time Syracuse linebacker Jon Murphy in just 1:01 in the first fight of the night.

After glorifying loutish middleweight Phil Baroni as some sort of star – ignoring the fact he’d lost three of his last four and was just a decidedly mediocre 10-9 coming in – CBS looked bad when he was knocked out in 1:11 by Joe Villasenor.

The next two bouts were sensational. Gina Carano outslugged Kaitlin Young after two rounds and middleweights Robbie Lawler and Scott Smith went at it fiercely until Smith was inadvertently poked in the eye in the third, forcing a premature end to their middleweight title bout.

The main event showcased two mediocre fighters in mediocre condition, though after listening to Johnson, Ranallo and Shamrock, you’d have thought we were watching the MMA equivalent of Ali-Frazier.

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.

There’s no question, though, that CBS didn’t do MMA any favors Saturday.

[Sifu-TZ]

for a guy who got knocked out by butterbean, thompson did better than I expected. I'd be mad if I was lawler, he should have had to main event. early stops for tv, trying to water down the sport. good to see frank though, but I could have done without his first 20 minutes of explaining things. chick fight was good, both had solid muay thai. and asses.

[dnix600]

for a guy who got knocked out by butterbean, thompson did better than I expected. I'd be mad if I was lawler, he should have had to main event. early stops for tv, trying to water down the sport. good to see frank though, but I could have done without his first 20 minutes of explaining things. chick fight was good, both had solid muay thai. and asses.

+1 on Lawler

Kimbo is bad for this sport . As popular as the sport has become, theres gonna be street fighting popping up everywhere. People hoping to become like Kimbo. I hate that MMA has adopted a "WWE" style of marketing.

[CarbonJames]

the Faber / Pulver fight was great i thought, much better fights on WEC last night.. Urijah finally got a test of strength and endurance.

[Sifu-TZ]

+1 on Lawler

Kimbo is bad for this sport . As popular as the sport has become, theres gonna be street fighting popping up everywhere. People hoping to become like Kimbo. I hate that MMA has adopted a "WWE" style of marketing.

this is the problem I have with current MMA. I now hate MMA, as projected by dana white. I'm an instructor, and all I see are WWE wannabees. kids show up when we practice wanting to learn to fight. I come from a martial arts background. remember when that's what we did? it was an art. it's a way of life, these things I learn, these things I teach. but MMA is no longer a way of life or a discipline to follow, it's a lesson in how to beat people up. I blama dana. has anyone else noticed his fight card has NOTHING to do with a ranking system? it's about who is more marketable. lesner? HA. this has become a circus, and the taste sickens me. Pride, Pankration, Vale Tudo, still martial arts. (is Pride dead?) yes, sportfighters must have stand-up and ground skills, I'm not knockin that. it's a bunch of dudes acting stupid in a house for a tv show. how many of us have thought " I wish there was a kid from thailand or china on here. he'd probably sleep in the garage, clean up when no one was looking, be up before everyone and out-train everyone. never say a word, just prove himself in the ring." but dana won't put a guy like that in, cuz it's not good tv.
not cool.


was good to see faber fight, been watching him for years. jens took a hell of a beating. makes me feel bad for only having a small black eye from sunday's training.

[txferrari]

I watched....Lame. Kimbo way overhyped. I'm not a huge follower, but I was thinking....where is the hype coming from?

[p0opstlnksal0t]

talk about a horribly boring fight. faber vs pulver... now that was a fun to watch fight! n e one watch the wec bantomweight fight with torres? that shit was bada$$

[wever411]

talk about a horribly boring fight. faber vs pulver... now that was a fun to watch fight! n e one watch the wec bantomweight fight with torres? that shit was bada$$
that was a good bantamweight fight. it was funny when both of them had an ankle hold at the same time. just wished his eye didn't swell up so they could have kept going.

i don't see what all the hype with kimbo was either. looked like he had a few chances to knock the other guy out but didn't.

[dnix600]

good read on the subject

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dw-kimbo060108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[lilmckee]

id sad when the girl fight is better then the rest, including the headliner

[wever411]

id sad when the girl fight is better then the rest, including the headliner
:nod:

[p0opstlnksal0t]

i missed the chick fights... damn!

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

WEC card was great
Both WEC Championship fights were great
The Kimbo fight went almost exactly like I thought, Kimbo having a hard time against said "Can" (but nooooo...Kimbo's gonna knock him out blahh blahh blahhh) :gesture:
The Elite XC event took us back years (it was bad for the sport)

[dbuck]

WEC card was great
Both WEC Championship fights were great
The Kimbo fight went almost exactly like I thought, Kimbo having a hard time against said "Can" (but nooooo...Kimbo's gonna knock him out blahh blahh blahhh) :gesture:
The Elite XC event took us back years (it was bad for the sport)


you know if they are re-airring those WEC fights? I missed 'em cuz I watching SPEED channel and didn't set up the DVR:banghead:

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

you know if they are re-airring those WEC fights? I missed 'em cuz I watching SPEED channel and didn't set up the DVR:banghead:

Yeah they will be airing it again this Wednesday at 7p and again on Thursday at the same time | Link (http://www.versus.com/nw/article/view/37850/?tf=wrekcage.tpl&catID=76)

[dbuck]

Yeah they will be airing it again this Wednesday at 7p and again on Thursday at the same time | Link (http://www.versus.com/nw/article/view/37850/?tf=wrekcage.tpl&catID=76)

THANKS homie:thumb:

[CaJuNsOuLjA]

THANKS homie:thumb:

Fo sho...:thumb:

[nels]

not sure if someone posted this yet, but even kimbo's trainer, good ol Bas Rutten, said that the fight shoulda ended in 2nd round, giving victory to Thompson
http://mmajunkie.com/news/4498/trainer-fight-was-good-for-kimbo-but-stoppage-justified.mma