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Bas Rutten: Kimbo Fight Should Have Been Stopped In R2

June 3, 2008 By

Kimbo Slice’s trainer legendary mixed martial arts veteran Bas Rutten, on his website, defends his fighters performance on last Saturdays EliteXC “Primetime”. Rutten also stated that rules are rules and the fight should have been stopped in the second round. Here’s the clip:

People ask me if the fight should have been stopped at the end in the second round, I say YES because those are the rules, it should have been stopped because Kimbo didn’t do anything to improve his situation. But I think what made the ref NOT do it was the fact that Kimbo was giving his thumbs up the whole time to let the referee know that he was OK.
This was the refs decision, not Kimbo’s.

Rutten defends his fighters performance while explaining his mistakes:

Did he make mistakes? Of course, but than again, everybody makes mistakes plus he’s training MMA for only a year. I think that he had a few really good escapes from the bottom. Of course I wanted him to buck up, explode and escape the last one and a half minute of round number two, but he didn’t.
He DID give his “thumbs up” sign to the referee telling him he was OK and that the short elbows didn’t hurt him. Still, he should have escaped but he told me later that he was saving energy for the third round and because he thought the elbows didn’t have any effect anyway, he chose that moment.
I told him that it wasn’t good to do because the ref can stop the fight PLUS what if you get cut? So that won’t happen again.

He also didn’t close his guard a few times and he should have done that. In round two he had James in a guillotine choke but didn’t close his guard, that was too bad because Thompson escaped exactly how I showed Kimbo that you should escape when your opponent doesn’t close his guard, but you learn from your mistakes so that won’t happen again either.

For the full statement check out Ruttens website.

Video of Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson – R2

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ESPN’s Jim Rome Comments on EliteXC Primetime on CBS

June 3, 2008 By

In comment I mean “Hates”. The refereeing was a joke, but what did you really expect from a guy who was making his third professional fight. Lawler-Smith was a battle. Carano looked good for the shape she was in.

I’m all for MMA being on Primetime, but more in the form of a highlight show, because you know CBS has to much to lose if something goes horribly wrong live on network television.

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EliteXC Primetime Post-Fight Press Conference

June 3, 2008 By

Imagine a motley crue of happy, winning fighters mixed with bruised and battered, losing fighters…then throw in some blood thirsty reporters. Let’s just say that Gary Shaw was smart in letting all the fighters say their peace first and let us ask questions later. I won’t get into all the boring details of the press conference, but here were some highlights:

James Thompson stopped in before he went to the hospital (he was having trouble breathing) – he seemed so humble. Very classy guy.
Brett Rogers made a seemingly innocent comment about Kimbo’s fighting ability (of course, Kimbo was not yet in the room).
Kimbo came in as Gina Carano was speaking. Suddenly no one cared what she was saying anymore.

And then the s**t hits the fan. Once the press is allowed to start asking questions, people go for the jugular. Someone pretty much tells Kimbo what Rogers said…and that’s when there’s suddenly a swarm on the stage. Lawler is holding Kimbo back. Baroni is holding Rogers back. Both their corners are trash talking. I even get my foot stepped on by someone scrambling to get up there. But finally things are calmed down and the press can start firing away again. A few minutes go by of harmless questions. Then, hands shaking and heart racing, I decided to be brave. I ask Robbie Lawler if he’s disappointed that his fight wasn’t the main event despite being a championship fight. Robbie laughs and jokes that it doesn’t matter to him because he’d get paid the same either way. I’m relieved…until Shaw grabs the mike and looks at me. He tells me that that was an aggressive question, and that ALL the fights were equal, they were ALL main events. Yeah, yeah whatever. And I bet he doesn’t play favorites with his kids either.

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