Comments on: Petruzelli’s improbable victory raises many unanswered questions

By: ed

ed — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:45 +0000

well here we go. everyone is missing the bigger picture. affliction, and elite are going to have an amazing partnership. the cbs exposure, and the backing behind affliction is unreal, these to organizations together could def challenge the ufc. kimbo is def a crowd favorite, and his trainer, Ruten. make him def a viable future star. all they need to do now is to recruit kurt angle and really mainstream this whole thing.

By: fltmike

fltmike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:12:28 +0000

Kimbos days of being spoon fed easy washed out fighters are over! Now its his turn his turn too get beat down.but by a dude that wieghteb 30 pounds less with pink hair!

By: slayer

slayer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:00:38 +0000

i would be telling a lie if i said i thought kimbo was going to be the new face of MMA like Elite tried to hype him up to be. he is a 34 year old man who had a good street fighting background. it would be crazy to think this old man could come in with these young guys who have been training there whole lives and be productive. its pretty obvious they were feeding him washed up stars of MMA and making people believe kimbo was a great fighter. the fact that they called Petruzell a UFC veteran was funny , he was 0-2 int he UFC. now elite xc will move forward to there next nobody fighter in Tito Ortiz. i think elite xc should give up. you’ll never be the UFC your fighters don’t even compare. hey maybe you should set up another Tito vs Shamrock and have kimbo ref that fight. now were really talkin. lmao

By: NJMMAFAN

NJMMAFAN — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:26:08 +0000

He is still a huge draw, he’s still going to be on tv as much as possible, he’ll still fight nobodies until he proves he can fight tougher opponents, and like it or not people who wouldnt care otherwise are now watching mma to see kimbo. He himself never came out and said he deserves more, or that his competition should be more stiff, think about it from his point of view if a company lets you know you’ll be making a shit ton of money to fight guys who arent notable and they wanna promote you every chance they get, are you going to say no? hes riding a wave the promotors created, hes still hustling, fighting people for money, and if EXC wants him to beat up bums who cares its still fun to watch. without kimbo we wont be getting SNF for much longer, and the card was better than most ive paid for.

By: Unquestioned Answers

Unquestioned Answers — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:40:19 +0000

Beat Down…Spell Check lately? Better yet, Fact Check Ever?

By: BIG PAPA

BIG PAPA — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:58:37 +0000

I NEW FROM WATCHING KIMBO FIGHT ON YOU TUBE THAT IF YOU CATCH HIM . HE HAS A GLASS CHIN. THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN TO HIM ,
I’LL BET THE FARM ON IT . YOU READ IT HERE FIRST. : )

By: Beat Down

Beat Down — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:20:50 +0000

By the way if anybody wants to talke conspiricys about what happened with shamrock heres one

Since Tito is going to be part on EXC they had shamrock do what he did so he could purposly not get cleared because if he realy wanted to fight he would have hid the engiry they went to seth n hopes he would beat kimbo being younger and more experienced or paying kimbo 2 take a dive because everybody knows kimbo can take a hit you seen it on alot of different occations from streetfighting to the cage an a jab drops him no no nooooooo now they will have a fight between Tito VS Seth an when Tito wins hes the next big name with EXC because he has a bigger following than kimbo and Kimbo can only be babied for so long its all about the all mighty dollar big names mean BIG BUCKS

By: Beat Down

Beat Down — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:11:00 +0000

Lets be real about 1 thing all arganizations have hype stars from kimbo 2 brock brock lost his 1st fight with all the hype they gave him because he fought a premier heavy weight n Frank Meir then beat heath Hairing not a top ranked heavy weight now fighting Randy Coture also a 44yr old man like shamrock how long will his hype last the point is you can’t justify someone’s skills off of 1 fight shit happends even though kimbo would have lost sooner or later because they where babing him as long as he is not another houston alexander itsgood even thoug houston lost three fights n a row he matained his celibrity for all three loses just like kimbo will keep so saying he is done is crazy talk because his following out ways the ney sayers.

By: David White

David White — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:25:07 +0000

I love my brotha but Iam happy this happened because yes this guy can throw knockout punches but this guy is over rated to the max he doesn’t have ground game and he cant last that long so this was just a wake up call to all of america dont put your faith in a guy who cant take it to the mat when he needs to

By: snake

snake — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:27:11 +0000

Kimbo is a fraud and everyone who knows MMA knows it. He didn’t have time to prepare? For a light-heavyweight undercard fighter? If Slice was anything but a fake he would have been the guy scoring a 144-second KO. Getting floored by half a jab and being unable to protect himself was a disgrace.

By: Sam Caplan

Sam Caplan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:22:55 +0000

5Percentbodyfat, you need to get your facts straight. I never wrote any such article for CBS and never ONCE have I claimed Kimbo could knock out Fedor. I wrote an article last summer for FIGHT! magazine titled “Five who COULD beat Fedor” (emphasis on COULD) and the five were: Josh Barnett, Brock Lesnar, Gabriel Gonzaga, Antonio Silva, and Randy Couture.

If you lie again like that then you’re going to be banned from the site and I am removing your one post since it is a total FABRICATION.

By: 5percentbodyfat

5percentbodyfat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:41:46 +0000

Simon,
Do you follow MMA, really do you? What I said was that Sam suggested that ‘Kimbo could beat Fedor’ which he did in his ’5 guys that could knock out Fedor’ article posted on CBS or here (it’s someplace).

Secondly, a Fedor vs. Kimbo fight was heavily discussed over the past couple of months by Affliction and EliteXC. Why the hell do you think you saw Affliction joining up with EliteXC for this card? I would link you over, but out of respect for Sam and his site, I won’t. Just google the follow string: “Kimbo Fedor Affliction EliteXC talks”

Please know your “stuff: before you start giving ppl a hard time and spewing off at the mouth.

By: Tank

Tank — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:52:03 +0000

Yea it was great there was still a headline. Aaron should have fought. They saw the stats and got scared. I like Kimbo, but thats what he gets for thinking Aaron was a nobody. Then gets KOed in 14 second by the sliverback.

Aaron you will get your dawg. Know Pain baby!!

Tank!!!!

By: Derek Petruzelli

Derek Petruzelli — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:19:47 +0000

hold your tounge boy……..A 0-2 UFC wash out wtf check his record buddy fought tough opponents beat tough opponents and had 2 fights where he didn’t perform at the top of his game……so take it easy

By: HexRei

HexRei — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:29:18 +0000

In that sense sam, you are correct

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:33 +0000

My theory is that ken wouldn’t take a dive for Elite Xe,So they pulled him from the fight. Knowing their big money maker cant lose yet, they still need watchers , and kimbo has a huge fan base so they let him fight people they new kimbo could beat for the right price. Petruzelli put down a fake ghetto hero.Kimbo Prove yourself and fight a real fighter Like Brock Lesnar .

By: Sam Caplan

Sam Caplan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:03 +0000

HexRei, there’s a HUGE difference between the definition of improbable and upset. Regardless of whether you predicted Petruzelli to win or not, it’s still an improbable victory because as of 5:30 p.m. ET that day, Petruzelli was still scheduled to fight Aaron Rosa on the undercard. The idea of Petruzelli getting promoted from the undercard to the main event and winning on primetime network television was a legitimate improbability, was it not?

And you’re not alone in predicting the upset. Many others, such as myself, knew Kimbo was facing a tougher opponent than Shamrock and that Petruzelli was a better fighter than Slice. That’s why I don’t need to click on your link in order to take your word that you also predicted Petruzelli to win.

By: Simon Cason

Simon Cason — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:20:27 +0000

5%bodyfat…Who the fuck said anything about Kimbo fighting Fedor. ANYONE who says that retarded ass statement dont know shit about MMA. Fedor would
M-U-R-D-E-R Kimbo. Not only that I dont even think the fight could get sanctioned in the US. The difference in their record and ability is nite and day. Im sick of hearing this crap about Kimbo fighting Fedor. If that happens, mark my words, I’ll actually do what Cro-Cop promissed and Tar and feather myself naked and run thru the streets of Miami. Promise. It wont happen, stop talking like it will happen. Thats like saying Anderson Silva and Sam Caplan should fight. It makes no sense and people should just shut up about it.

By: Mike Wolfe

Mike Wolfe — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:12:10 +0000

I agree with 5%’s point about the knock out punch. It didn’t look to me as if Petruzelli had too much behind it, and his punches after Kimbo hit the deck looked like glancing blows. I always thought Kimbo would lose his arm someday to a submission, but I assumed he had a better jaw than that.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:31 +0000

Kimbo is a bum..plain and simple.Elite XC has done everything they could to assure the kimbo win,im willing to bet that the cut on kens eye was planned so they could put kimbo in a safe fight with a man 30lbs lighter.seth shocked the world and especially elite xc.even further back with the thompson fight why hadnt thompsons ear been drained?in closing im saying Kimbo is bullshit…