one of my favorite verbs, haven’t seen it used in a long time.
Also do you think Kimbo would beat Houston?

You put much better than I did what I found disappointing about the fight.

I wouldn’t be so hard on Nelson — Kimbo hits pretty hard and I think Nelson handled him quite well.

Nelson’s arrogance is really off-putting.

All I saw was Roy making “I’m hungry/I’m fat” jokes. Did I miss something else where he acted more arrogant than that?

He did exactly what he needed to do. It was his first fight – why throw hard punches and risk a fracture when he could just have his way with Kimbo on the ground and pepper him with light punches?

Don’t be surprised if we see Kimbo Slice vs. Houston Alexander in the UFC soon.

This idea is catching on, I see.

I’ve been saying, pretty much since the announcement of Kimbo joining the cast of TUF 10 that they need to put him in two fights, regardless of the outcome of the first:

1. Kimbo v. Houston Alexander
2. Kimbo v. Chuck Liddell

The latter is obvious. Unless you are allergic to money, you make that fight. The former, as a third-from-the-top match would be a large drawing card based on Kimbo alone, but the potential for an explosive knockout in that matchup, where both guys have an extremely limited skillset focused entirely on landing one enormous punch is, for me, as intriguing a matchup as is available in MMA today. Plus, aesthetically, it’s two jacked up dudes battling it out, which is less of a big deal, but it’s an easier sell than Kimbo versus, for example, a guy whose so fat that he’s got Bantamweights orbiting him.

There’s evidence to support the Alexander fight mounting already. First of all, it’s the obvious match to make for all the reasons I’ve just explained. Second of all, Houston Alexander is rumored to be on the TUF 10 finale card. Third of all, Kimbo, as recently as yesterday, expressed his willingness to drop to 205lbs., but that might be necessary because…Fourth, Houston Alexander has fought at Heavyweight prior to his run in the UFC as well as in his most recent match, in which he defeated Sherman Pendergarst.

So while I’ve been busy promoting this match as an absolute lock elsewhere (on a site Michael Rome also visits), I’m glad to see the idea is spreading to a larger audience. The more folks who express an interest in the fight, the more likely it is to take place, and the more of a genius I appear to be.

Tell your friends: Kimbo v. Houston, then Kimbo v. Chuck.

I think Kimbo could beat Mcsweeney in the finale

I was laughing at all the hype it was getting but it was fun to watch everyone go crazy.
=)

Kimbo vs Ken Shamrock :)

They started airing a new commercial, Marcus gets messed up, and Kimbo will probably replace him

Just write off Nelson based on a round 2 cruise control win on a reality show?

He’s probably going to have trouble with elite fighters (that’s the crazy thing about elite fighters), but I think that he can compete with a lot of HW’s in the UFC. Luckily they still fight em…

He’s been stating in interviews recently that he knew that this was a tournament and did not want to hurt himself before the end—break his hands, take the least damage to fight another fight within a few weeks, etc.

Roy’s got the juice and can turn it up when he needs it. This is why he is a veteran.

What is off-putting is that he knows that he is good. Most other TUF alum go balls to the walls and have nothing to lose. Roy’s a little smarter than that and has skills to offset coasting through the prelims.

As for Kimbo, you’re spot on.

I didn’t see where Roy was even winded in the fight, he took a couple of shots in the second round that seemed to stun him a bit but he wasn’t even breathing hard. It seemed to me it was more Roy looking past Kimbo to the next round of the show and just putting in minimal effort (which is honestly all he needed to beat Kimbo). It was a rather easy fight for Roy and probably best for SpikeTV that Roy didn’t bust Kimbo up and put him out of the competition for good with stiches (they are already hyping a possible return to fight for him).

They gave Dave Kaplan several chances.. I don’t see why they shouldn’t for Kimbo..

I think they meant to say “The Fattest Fight in Ultimate Fighter History”

from Josh Gross:

They’re talking @MMAAdvertising. And they’re saying Kimbo stinks after losing to a guy w/pink hair and the dude w/the gut. He gets 1 chance.

Nelson is 265 wow talk about a difference in body types. What i got from this was these was the two biggest additions to the HW class and neither one of them looked like they would last past the first against the champ.

The fight was sorta lame, but hey, there’s more important things in life like…

THE LEAFS ARE BACK TOMORROW AND WILL TAKE ON THE MONTREAL CANADIENS FUCK YOU MONTREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For me, it was a matter of wanting Kimbo to succeed, more than believing in the UFC hype machine. I always figured Roy would win. I have to admit, it’s hard not to root for Kimbo, cause I genuinely like the dude. I still wanted Roy to win, but I was pulling for Kimbo to put on a great fight. The only time Kimbo looked okay was when he came out in the second and hit Roy a couple of times. He looked like he wanted it then, but too little too late. I would like to see him drop down to LHW, because I’d like to see how his punching power would be like at that weight.

Kimbo is ten years too late to the MMA game. It’s a shame.

Kimbo v Ray Mercer!

these dudes all suck.
no cardo.
no standup.
no ground defense.
no appearance of actually wanting to FIGHT.
they look good in training, (barely), get in the cage, and …..
suck.

cardo is swahili for gas.

… another great coaching display from Rampage. More repeated calls to “get up” or “don’t let him do that.” On the other side of the cage you hear Rashad’s crew specifically telling Roy what strikes to throw when they’re available, where to swing legs over, etc. Rashad’s crew specifically talked to Roy before the fight about clinching, taking Kimbo down, getting the crucifix, and then just landing unanswered shots until it’s stopped. Exactly what he did.

I almost think it’s starting to border on criminal that Rampage’s team has to continue in this thing with no coaching at all while Rashad’s team gets the likes of Greg Jackson and his camp to prepare them and actually offer up some helpful thoughts during fights. I guess it’s nice for Rampage’s team that he can make a lot of fat jokes and shave his hair to look like Kimbo, but I’m not sure how that’s going to help them win a single fight this season.

Every weekly episode makes me even more perfectly fine with Rampage not returning to the Octagon. I’m becoming more and more puzzled what anyone even finds likable about the guy anymore. Hope he enjoys his “acting” career.

On the actual fight — yeah, neither guy looked great. I thought we saw a few things out of Kimbo that showed a little promise — some patience, the attempted leg kick, some decent sprawl for a little bit, a nice try to reverse using the cage for leverage. But in the end, he mostly laid there without using his legs at all to try to get out of that crucifix; in his defense, I’m not sure that shrimping would even help with somebody as big as Nelson in that position. Nelson didn’t show anything flashy, but he did go out and do exactly, almost word for word, what he said he was going to do before the fight. All the way down to just tapping Kimbo on the top of the head repeatedly — he even said before that it doesn’t matter if you’re hitting hard or just tapping, because if you count ‘em out the ref has to conclude the other guy isn’t defending himself. I think that’s bull and think Dean was perfectly right to let the first round end because Nelson, while controlling position and “striking” wasn’t doing anything to constitute any damage or danger at all, but whatever.

Finally, I was looking forward to seeing Nelson on TUF this year. Now I’m looking forward to somebody knocking him out and seeing if he still feels like “the king” afterward.