kmasterflex
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I have to say im very impressed with what kimbo brought to the ring what do you guys think ??????
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jtunderdog
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Looked way better but I suspect anyone with any kicking ability is going to blow his leg out. His ground game was much improved. Alexander looked pitiful.
NAIR
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I didn't watch it but I heard the match sucked. Fans were booing!
Kimbo a winner in UFC debut
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
LAS VEGAS – Kimbo Slice, who was mocked relentlessly by Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White for more than a year before joining the company, made his statement Saturday by edging Houston Alexander Saturday on a unanimous decision at the Palms in “The Ultimate Fighter Finale.”
It was hardly a classic and the crowd spent much of it booing, hoping for action.
Slice, who was a backyard brawler who gained notoriety by getting tens of millions of views of his fights on YouTube, won by scores of 29-28 twice and 30-27.
Alexander’s strategy was horrendous. A huge puncher who knocked out top light heavyweight Keith Jardine, as well as Alessio Sakara, Alexander appeared intimidated by Slice and circled warily for most of the first two rounds.
Very little action happened in the first, though Slice took Alexander down and inflicted damage on the ground in the second. At one stage, Slice, a man known for his striking, went for a rear naked choke.
While Slice was fighting for rival company Elite XC and becoming a big draw on CBS, White ripped him repeatedly and said the only way Slice would fight in the UFC would be to go on The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC’s reality series. At one point, he said Urijah Faber, a 145-pounder who was then the featherweight champion in the World Extreme Cagefighting, would easily beat the heavyweight Slice.
Slice, whose real name is Kevin Ferguson, took White up on his offer and appeared on the reality series, helping it to record ratings. He lost on the show to Roy Nelson, but was such a big draw that he was given the fight against Alexander on Saturday’s finale.
By the third round, both men were dog tired and several times stopped fighting to take a deep breath.
Slice, though, was pleased but conceded his game is a work in progress. He’s worked with the highly regarded American Top Team since filming ended.
“I’m still working on it, (but) it’s not easy,” Slice said of his total mixed martial arts game. “I feel good (to win in the UFC). The house was a good experience. It was more mental than anything.”
In a fight between bitter rivals and former NFL defensive linemen, Matt Mitrione knocked out Marcus “Big Baby” Jones just 10 seconds into the second round. Jones, a jiu-jitsu ace, won the first round, but the problem of his brittle chin caught him in the second.
Jones was being hurt by the few punches that Mitrione landed in the first. As the second opened, Jones went at Mitrione, who landed two big rights. Jones fell face first. Mitrione landed a shot on the ground before referee Josh Rosenthal stopped it.
Matt Hamill scored a victory over Jon Jones in a light heavyweight bout, but it wasn’t what he wanted. Jones was disqualified for throwing an illegal elbow in the first round.
The fight probably should have been stopped earlier, as Jones was blasting Hamill with elbows, but referee Steve Mazzagatti let it go until the illegal elbow ended the fight.
Kimbo a winner in UFC debut
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
LAS VEGAS – Kimbo Slice, who was mocked relentlessly by Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White for more than a year before joining the company, made his statement Saturday by edging Houston Alexander Saturday on a unanimous decision at the Palms in “The Ultimate Fighter Finale.”
It was hardly a classic and the crowd spent much of it booing, hoping for action.
Slice, who was a backyard brawler who gained notoriety by getting tens of millions of views of his fights on YouTube, won by scores of 29-28 twice and 30-27.
Alexander’s strategy was horrendous. A huge puncher who knocked out top light heavyweight Keith Jardine, as well as Alessio Sakara, Alexander appeared intimidated by Slice and circled warily for most of the first two rounds.
Very little action happened in the first, though Slice took Alexander down and inflicted damage on the ground in the second. At one stage, Slice, a man known for his striking, went for a rear naked choke.
While Slice was fighting for rival company Elite XC and becoming a big draw on CBS, White ripped him repeatedly and said the only way Slice would fight in the UFC would be to go on The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC’s reality series. At one point, he said Urijah Faber, a 145-pounder who was then the featherweight champion in the World Extreme Cagefighting, would easily beat the heavyweight Slice.
Slice, whose real name is Kevin Ferguson, took White up on his offer and appeared on the reality series, helping it to record ratings. He lost on the show to Roy Nelson, but was such a big draw that he was given the fight against Alexander on Saturday’s finale.
By the third round, both men were dog tired and several times stopped fighting to take a deep breath.
Slice, though, was pleased but conceded his game is a work in progress. He’s worked with the highly regarded American Top Team since filming ended.
“I’m still working on it, (but) it’s not easy,” Slice said of his total mixed martial arts game. “I feel good (to win in the UFC). The house was a good experience. It was more mental than anything.”
In a fight between bitter rivals and former NFL defensive linemen, Matt Mitrione knocked out Marcus “Big Baby” Jones just 10 seconds into the second round. Jones, a jiu-jitsu ace, won the first round, but the problem of his brittle chin caught him in the second.
Jones was being hurt by the few punches that Mitrione landed in the first. As the second opened, Jones went at Mitrione, who landed two big rights. Jones fell face first. Mitrione landed a shot on the ground before referee Josh Rosenthal stopped it.
Matt Hamill scored a victory over Jon Jones in a light heavyweight bout, but it wasn’t what he wanted. Jones was disqualified for throwing an illegal elbow in the first round.
The fight probably should have been stopped earlier, as Jones was blasting Hamill with elbows, but referee Steve Mazzagatti let it go until the illegal elbow ended the fight.
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irishhammer
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dude only one thing to say Houston was intimidated by kimbo and it showed in his performance, as said above kimbo has an obvious knee problem that if the fans knew about Houston knew also. For some reason he did not capitalize on this and kimbo just took advantage of it even with the disadvantage. Houston should have came more mentally prepared.
steph
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Spoiler
Nelson KO'd Schaub in Round 1.
I'm so happy Kimbo won! Alexander's circling around the octagon was bullshit. If his strategy was to knock Kimbo's knee out, fine... I get that and expected it. But to not even try another approach because he didn't feel he could win any other way than to take Kimbo out via his weakness was crap. If you're a fighter and you have confidence in yourself, you should be confident in your abilities... period. Using the opponent's weakness as your ONLY game plan to try and take a win wasn't very respectable, in my opinion... for that, the fight sucked.
However, watching Kimbo trying to get submissions was badass! The guy is totally trying to prove that he's been studying, working hard and improving his ground game. I was very impressed to see him stepping out and going for those takedowns!
Alexander was so done by the end of that fight...
Nelson KO'd Schaub in Round 1.
I'm so happy Kimbo won! Alexander's circling around the octagon was bullshit. If his strategy was to knock Kimbo's knee out, fine... I get that and expected it. But to not even try another approach because he didn't feel he could win any other way than to take Kimbo out via his weakness was crap. If you're a fighter and you have confidence in yourself, you should be confident in your abilities... period. Using the opponent's weakness as your ONLY game plan to try and take a win wasn't very respectable, in my opinion... for that, the fight sucked.
However, watching Kimbo trying to get submissions was badass! The guy is totally trying to prove that he's been studying, working hard and improving his ground game. I was very impressed to see him stepping out and going for those takedowns!
Alexander was so done by the end of that fight...
skinny1
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I think Kimbo did a pretty damn good job considering he isn't all that well rounded in MMA. Just a bad ass brawler with heavy hands. It would be nice if Kimbo had been training MMA about 10 years ago but his ground game was quite impressive in this fight and the slam of Houston was one of the best I've seen. I hope he keeps his training up and keeps improving. I like how he doesn't talk bull shit about other opponents and just goes out there and gives it his all.
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