Kimbo slice got robbed due to an illegal strike

[rediculus]

At 250 lbs I don't "train" to punch I have in the past and I can honestly say if I bring my hand down on the back of your skull. Game over. I have been hit in the temple plenty of times if you know how to roll with/away from a punch it's not that bad but I can rip your spine in 2 with a crush to the lower back portion of your head.

Add in that he's a trained fighter and probably doubles my ft/lbs sq inch on punch.

Kimbo is a solid ruthless dude if your looking to the UFC and MMA for skilled fighters it's no different than looking to WWE For great wrestlers. Well not exactly the same but those guys are nowhere near the toughest men. Just a little glory hungry and willing to put up a good fight and willing to heal up and fight again.

 

[mad_monkey59]

"the most incredible victory in the history of mixed martial arts"

- ummmm Mr. Commentator... lets not get carried away, a guy with pink hair beats a street brawler by hitting him in the back of the head... buddy that is maybe the most incredible thing to happen in MMA that day, maybe...

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

I saw Kimbo go stiff from a swatting right on the chin. I've watched the fight numerous times and cannot conclusively see any hammerfists to the back of the head. Apparently neither could the ref who was standing right next to Slice and Petruzelli and not watching the action from the obscured vantage point of the camera.

 

[rediculus]

lol I saw it and I am sorry you've watched it more than once. Doesn't matter he'll get on some reality TV show after he does security and they do a show "where are they now" people will laugh about it for awhile...just like ol mike tyson and his LMS

 

[shottabiggs]

Kimbo finally got exposed. Over-rated. Don't believe the hype.

 

[redsamurai]

orchestrated as in let's have our franchise fighter lose to not just a nobody, but a nobody in a lower weight class who took the fight on "minutes" notice. Elite is done now becauase of that loss.

um??? he was hit in the face, that's what stunned him.. note his stiff legs..

I think the fight was questionable, they kept saying he took a hit to the eyebrow..

so??

Some of the yard fights i've seen of him, he has some serious cro mag num issues with his skull..

unconsciousness comes from the head moving faster than the brain, and when the brain catches up, the impact causes the effect..

so is it becoming like wrestling?? with the outcome orchestrated..

there i said it, and i feel better about myself..

 

[Lumberg]

I think it's impossible to say whether the hammerfist to the back of the head is what did him in. The most common angle doesn't show shit. The overhead one clearly shows Seth connecting with a fairly solid blow to the back of Kimbo's head and Kimbo stops in his tracks as far as trying to get up. However, how many times have we seen a fighter start to get up on pure instinct, only to fall again on his own by delayed reaction? For all we know that second blow by Seth was glancing, and the delayed reaction kicked in at the same time. I say the following are probably true:

1. The jab torqued Kimbo's head but good. Maybe a lucky shot. Kimbo's momentum from lunging forward was a big contributor to the power of the shot. His head twisted and as we all know, torque of the head counts as much as sheer impact strength.

2. Kimbo falls flat on his face, but his hands move very quickly to support him and he's moving with quickness and urgency to get up from that tough blow. He might be stunned, but he's still able to move quickly as he's starting to get up.

3. At the precise moment the blow to the back of the head lands, Kimbo loses all sense of urgency. He goes from a man quickly trying to get up to a lumbering hippopotamus who's dead in the water.

It could be coincidence, it could be that the blow to the back of the head was the finishing blow. However, the blow that floored him was a devastating blow, and it's not sure that he would have recovered had the hammerfist not landed.

IMHO I think Kimbo suffered two very hard blows in short order, one 100% legal and the second questionable. However hindsight is 20/20 and the whole discussion would be moot if he hadn't left himself open to the first shot, which was a HUGE error on his part. I think it's tough to argue that he was "robbed." He left himself wide open while lunging forward at a guy who had his back against the cage and therefore had stability to launch a very good blow. Game over, check mate. Kimbo still lost.

 

[redsamurai]

He should take up Dana's offer of going on the ultimate fighter. That would probably be the most watched TUF yet.

 

[skratched]

has anyone got footage of the fight that they could up on rapidshare. thanks in advance

 

[rediculus]

if you youtube search it's out there. I prefer not to watch greased up men wrap their arms around each other it's like half naked broke back mountain.

just .02