Gabe Lemley: Exuding Confidence
March 27, 2008 by Adam Morgan
Gabe Lemley, Gilbert Melendez’s opponent for Saturday night’s EliteXC/Strikeforce show, doesn’t sound too confident going into the bout. From a Pro Elite press release with quotes from the pre-fight presser:
“My first impression of Gilbert (Melendez) was that this is not a good idea because he is such a great fighter.”
At least Gabe is a realist. He took this fight on three weeks’ notice and walks around at 155 lbs., unlike Melendez who probably cuts 10-15 lbs. to get down to 155. He’s never faced a fighter like Melendez and in all likelihood, Melendez will make short work of him. When you’re making these kind of statements at the pre-fight presser, though, you may be in for a long night.
i’m wondering what sam caplan’s take on mike kyle being added to the card saturday night is, frankly. that guy’s a piece of shit who should be in jail, not in the cage. what’s up with EliteXC sucking in these fucking scumbags? They pay that costa kid, they pay jailbird krazy horse too. what’s up with eliteXC? i’m considering cancelling showtime over this crap, frankly. i don’t think i want to put anymore money up to support dudes like that.
Come on Garth what Kyle did was illegal but was far from that horrible. If it had been in Pride or ICON it would have been perfectly fine. I just watched that fight and its pretty tame compared to some of the head stomps and soccer kicks delivered by any Chute Boxe fighter. I do admit that EliteXC does have a strange pattern of picking up fighter with dubious pasts like Crazy Horse, Kimbo and Mike Kyle but hey as long as they behave themselves from now on I have no problem with any fighter previously mentioned.
Lemley has some real balls fighting Gilbert at all let alone on short notice. I wouldn’t fight him even if he had one arm tied behind his back, and I have like 5 inches and 100 pounds on him.
It wasn’t just the illegal kick it was the barrage after the ref tried to stop it which was terrible. It took two referees to pull that douche bag off the guy and now that guy can’t fight anymore because he has all these fucked facial fractures because of that extremely late barrage.
Yeah I guess but i saw a Gomi fight were it took like 5 guys to keep him off a guy. I’m not condoning what he did but in the heat of the moment sometime people lose it, i’ve had friends who grabbed weapons like rocks during fights with out realizing it.