Earlier this week, Kimbo Slice made a few statements on his former trainer, Bas Rutten. After reading this, Bas Rutten sent an email to Fighters Only in order to give his side of the story:

I never said "I tried to teach you stuff but its not working", I don’t say the word "stuff" when I mean skills or technique, I said, I try to teach you skills but you are not listening. Example... the last fight he had against Petruzelli, first line in the game plan? "DO NOT rush in!"

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Pretending to be a friend and getting paid GOOD for my work? Ha ha, OK, lets see here. I couldn’t train him two times a day so I told my buddy at my gym, Randy Khatami, who’s a great boxing coach and also teaches some basic submissions, that I would take him in the morning, and he would take him at night... I just pay him half of what I make.

Lets do the math here, 10% of 100,000, is $10,000, that I split in half, so I make $5000 in 5 or 6 weeks. I also told him BEFORE I started training him, that he had to understand that when I had a commentary job, that I had to do that, since this was not a "money making machine for me"... Since I believed in him, and considered him a friend, I said NO to a whole bunch of commentary jobs because I wanted to be there for him for the entire time. Meaning, I actually LOST money training Kimbo. Well, actually, with the last fight (because they re-negotiated), I think I evened it out, but never made money.

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If Kimbo would have done everything that he did in the beginning when he came in, he had great potential. To now blame that on the people who trained him, very loser thing to do. And if it was so bad, why is he still with Randy Khatami? He trains him in the style as I do because I told him so. See what I mean? He makes no sense.