Starting to wonder if the whole post fight eruption wasn’t set up from the start by Shaw.

I smell Vince McMahon.

I thought Ken and Tito legitimately hated each other?

I just find it convenient that a feud suddenly bursts up, brought into a press conference (hello media!) and lo and behold, it’s announced as the next fight.

Just strikes me a bit of, ‘hey go make a stink so there’ll be momentum when it’s announced’.

Let’s see, drama at a presser 5 months before a fight. Sounds like something from the boxing world. What is Shaw’s background again? Seriously, I agree that to some extent, this rift was manufactured.

As for the fight, I can’t stand Rogers and I’m certainly not sold on Kimbo. I would love to see a big hook KO Rogers, but I have a feeling, this will be a quick win for him (Rogers).

Neither one of these guys wants Big Country anytime soon.

I’m more likely to believe that Rogers made a move to promote himself into the light rather than Shaw having coreographed it.
I don’t personally care either way, what fighters think of each other and the “drama” behind fights is pointless to me.

I’m torn on this fight. I’ve enjoyed Rogers’ last couple of fights. I’m not a fan of Kimbo at all. But I’m not really sure what the outcome of this fight is going to mean for either fighter, really. Regardless of who wins, I’m not sold that either one of them is anything to be particularly excited about. So far all I’ve seen of either one of these guys is the ability to throw huge punches with mixed results, but not really an ability to do much of anything else. It could be that Rogers possesses some ground skills that we just haven’t seen yet, but we really haven’t seen that at all. We have seen that Kimbo doesn’t really have much of any offense on the ground and has very little beyond pure strength for defense on the ground. We haven’t seen what kind of cardio Rogers might have, but we now know that Kimbo’s good for about 3 minutes and that’s it.

If Rogers knocks Kimbo out in round 1, does that mean Rogers is really “all that”? Nope.
If Kimbo knocks Rogers out in round 1, does that mean Kimbo is really “all that”? Nope.

I’d still prefer to see Kimbo have to rematch Thompson, and going to this fight instead seems to me to just be an attempt to push the “controversy” of the stoppage under the rug a bit. Maybe that’s just me, though.

While many people can speculate as to whether Shaw planned this, it’s a good move by Rogers to call Kimbo out in the press conference. Not only does it make the fight more intriguing, but it should create much needed hype around Kimbo’s second fight on CBS to get viewers to tune in.

The only problem here is, Rogers is going to be a tough fight for him, very tough. Rogers still has some wrestling experience while Kimbo has zero. He had a horrible ground game, while Rogers could essentially move his weight around, topple Kimbo, and pound him out with his heavy hands. A standup war will definitely be interesting, but Rogers somehow seems to expose chins in most of his fights.

Here’s the audio.

Kimbo comes off as classy and humble.

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I just marked out for Brett Rogers.