Kimbo Slice was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock tonight. Shamrock had to pull out of the fight due to an injury during warm up today. Seth Petruzelli was the last minute replacement for Shamrock. Slice, a notorious street fighter, was nearly knocked unconscious, then fell and was mounted and pummeled. The ref quickly stopped the fight.

The unproven and unexperienced Slice was one of Elite XC's top stars. Likely for the same appeal of Tank Abbott in the late '90's. There has been talk of an eventual fight between Slice and Fedor Emelianenko. Some people are saying because of the circumstances, Slice gets a mulligan. There is no reason to think he can't rebound from this. But now the appeal of a Slice/Fedor fight just isn't the same.

Also, my girl Gina Carano won again tonight. If (when) my wife eventually leaves me, I want Gina Carano to be my future ex-wife.

S. McCracken wrote:

Best part of Carano was watching her weigh in. She couldn't make weight so she got naked to do it. Slice is a flash in the pan. Wow, a big black bouncer who could knock someone out if they were given a clear shot. Not so impressive against people with actual mat skills.

I kind of understood the hype, but not at the level it reached. To me, it isn't much different than Tank Abbott. Sure he can kick some guy's ass who doesn't really know how to fight. He can even kick the asses of some of the lesser MMA fighters. But when Abbott got in there and mixed it up with some legit guys, he was nothing. I think Slice is no different. I do think it is ironic that he got beat by getting punched. Did you see that punch rock him? Maybe it was a one in a million shot. But it might tell a lot about Kimbo's jaw.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

I would love to see a slice fedor fight. Fedor would kick the living shit out of him. Like stated earlier, Slice is a big, intimidating street brawler, but put up against an above average MMA fighter, he's not going to stand a chance, and well Fedor is IMO the best heavyweight fighter out there.

For me, I'd rather see Lesnar fight Fedor than Kimbo. The only appeal to a Kimbo/Fedor fight would be to see Kimbo get completely picked apart. Lesnar, who is UFC's Kimbo as far as hype goes, actually seems legit. Couture/Fedor is what seems to be the eventual fight. But if he loses to Lesnar, that fight will lose some appeal just like a potential Kimbo/Fedor fight did Saturday night.

I guess to even imagine somebody will beat Fedor, it will have to happen first. Even then, they would have to beat him best out of three to prove it wasn't a fluke.

But when it comes to the Slice/Petruzelli fight, I do think Slice should get his rematch. He did lose. The rematch may be just as bad. But he at least should get a chance to see if it was a fluke or not.

Personally, I'd like to see Kimbo Slice fight Bob Sapp.

Knyte wrote:

Ken left a very successful run in the then WWF because he wanted to do a final run through UFC, to prove he was still "The World's Most Dangerous Man." However, he failed big time. I kept waiting for him to return to WWF/E, but he never did. And, now it's probably way to late since he's past 40.

I really liked Shamrock. But for some reason, when he was in WWF, I wasn't a big fan of his. Not sure why.

Ermac wrote:

Kimbo is still a bad dude even if he loses sometimes, he can kick pretty much 90 percent of the people's asses on this planet.

In all fairness to Kimbo, he is a bad dude and I actually think he would have beat Ken Shamrock who he was originally supposed to fight that night. But like King said, as far as MMA goes, I really don't think he is good enough to compete with the fighters in top tier companies like UFC.

I would like to see him stay in the business because he will always have a puncher's chance. He also would make good for novelty fights, kind of like when he fought Tank Abbott. I'd still like to see him and Bob Sapp fight.

He would have been a great money maker too. Its too bad they couldn't keep the hype alive longer. Maybe they could have saved their company from going under. The sad thing for both Kimbo and EliteXC is that if Kimbo fought Petruzelli ten more times, he may beat him every time. I think he got in that one lucky shot.

I don't blame Kimbo one bit. I also don't think he should quit. A lot of the purists hate him and are glad he lost sooner than later. But I think he can be good for the business. Also, for the purists, who cares about the hype. It helps the sport more than it hurts it if it gets more people to support it. A lot of people were initially the same way about Lesnar. They think its bad for the sport because now a lot of us WWE assholes are going to be flocking to "their" sport. Fuck 'em because I've been watching since UFC got its start as a tool for the Gracie family to showcase their shit. Also, fuck 'em because Lesnar is a beast.

King wrote:

I think that Kimbo would have been better had they not banked on him, but instead saw the potential in him, and helped to build him as a fighter. Have him train with a good gym, not that Bas Rutten was bad, but something more Bjj and wrestling, as well as having great striking training. Also, the man needs to quit smoking and work on that cardio. It's the things that make great fighters like GSP be exceptional fighters.

I think EliteXC would have been better if they had not banked on him. Kimbo and Gina Carano were a big part of their main draw. Kimbo was largely untested and women's MMA as appealing as it has the potential to be, isn't enough. Their roster wasn't that impressive. I'd like to see more of Antonio Silva. But really they didn't have anybody that was a huge draw. So they had to rely on a guy like Kimbo.

I've never been a Matt Hughes fan.