Jason MacDonald Talks Kimbo Slice Exposed

Saturday night, Kimbo Slice finally got exposed for what most of us knew all along. He was built up by the internet, but he isn't that far along as an MMA fighter. James Thompson exposed him on the ground in his last fight, and Seth Petruzelli finished him off. The referee wasn't able to save him this time!

I think the fact that EliteXC is paying a guy like Kimbo $500,000 is almost insulting to other "real" mixed martial artists. If I were Jake Shields, who is a legitimate top 170-pound fighter, I would be very upset and angry. He's supposed to be a cornerstone of the organization and he's getting paid $50,000. That's a slap in the face for Shields, and pretty much every other top fighter there.

I guess the exception would be Andrei Arlovski. From his standpoint, leaving the UFC was probably the best thing for him. He got $750,000 for his Affliction fight, now $500,000 for EliteXC fight. And for fighting two guys that aren't exactly at his caliber.

Paul Daley's performance was disappointing. He may have Semtex in his hands, but he has bricks in his feet and back, because he's horrible on the ground.

Overall, it was a pretty disappointing card for CBS. I think they were happy with the ratings, but it wasn't great. Half the people didn't even realize until the last second that the Shamrock fight wasn't happening, me being one of them. And then to have talk that Petruzelli was paid to keep the fight standing. Not good.

This week I'm in Nova Scotia visiting my parents. But this will definitely be my last trip with the whole gang to Nova Scotia until my daughter is at least four years older. Because the trip here was the worst I've ever had in my life. My daughter screamed the entire 1.5-hour drive to the Calgary airport and then the entire 4.5-hour flight. Not just on and off. The entire flight! And then on the drive to my parents' place.

It got to the point where I was begging for my parents to bust out the alcohol when I got there, but they had none in the house. It was the longest flight of my life, and I'm not looking forward to the 5.5-hour flight going back.

Earlier this week, I received word from the UFC that they were working on a fight for me and I should know who I'll be facing by the end of the week. I've been trying to do the process of elimination but I still really don't know who I'm fighting.

I was thinking Nate Marquardt, we fought on the same night in Atlanta. But I'm thinking they might make Marquardt the coach of the next Ultimate Fighter: U.S. vs. U.K. Obviously, Michael Bisping will be there other one.

As a fighter, you try to sit and figure it out. There are not too many guys out there not already slated to fight someone else. And Joe Silva said they were "working" on a fight for me. But if the guy they have in mind is already under contract, there's not much "work" involved.

So I'm wondering if it could be someone new. They've brought in the higher divisions from the WEC, so hey, you never know; maybe a Paulo Filho matchup.

As for my own promotion, I'm trying to match up fights for my fight card and looking to use local talent from Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer. Yet I'm finding I'm not familiar with a lot of the guys who are fighting locally. I can't make it to a lot of the shows because I'm fighting in the U.S. all the time. I do with MFC, but since they signed with HDNet they've been having more international guys. I've had to call Mark and ask him for some advice and some contacts.

One thing that will help is that it looks like we'll push it back one weekend (to Nov. 29). The weekend I was originally looking at is the same weekend of a big fundraising festival in Red Deer called the Festival of Trees. I've been getting feedback from Red Deer from people saying they want to go to both events. So luckily I was able to secure the next weekend.

Last night I watched my first episode of this season's Ultimate Fighter. Up until now, I was looking for it on Thursday night. I just realized last night that it's on Wednesdays!

The episode was a bit of an embarrassment. I mean, these guys watch the show on TV and laugh and say, "Look at the jackass and how he's acting." And then they go on the show and start acting the same way.

After seven seasons, these guys still make complete asses of themselves. My hat's off to Krzysztof Soszynski for handling the situation the way he did. He's doing a great job, being a great representative of Canada for us. I have a suspicion he's going to do really well and be one of the last guys on the show.

Talk to you next week and we'll look at the upcoming UFC cards.