KIMBO schooled!
From an undisclosed injury, Shamrock had to bail out form his fight against Kimbo.
Seth Petruzelli a good friend of Jardine and Rashad took his place last minute and knocks the infamous Kimbo just 14 seconds into the first round.
WOW...just WOW!!!!!
rumour: looks like GSP and Penn are to fight in Ireland.
Seth Petruzelli a good friend of Jardine and Rashad took his place last minute and knocks the infamous Kimbo just 14 seconds into the first round.
WOW...just WOW!!!!!
rumour: looks like GSP and Penn are to fight in Ireland.
Comments
None of those hits looked solid... to me it looked rigged, but I know if I say that I will have offers for a new tin foil hat.
/g2
referee Troy Waugh made two mistakes:
he ignored the 2 shots to the back of the head (although not hard enough to effect Kimbo).
Kimbo was dazed but not out, fight was stopped too early.
as to comments earlier if MMA is dead or rigged...NOT! EliteXC is recruiting alot of UFC fighters. boxing is dead.
Shamrock had a serious cut over his left eye during training and was forced to bail out just before the fight.
Kimbo is garbage, dropped by a friggen jab. Though I agree there was some bad refing an dplenty of back of the head hits. But still, Kimbo sucks.
AGREE. If rigged, Kimbo would be the victor. All this internet street fight hype doesn't even come close to MMA fighting. Sure he beat a few tough looking street thugs but if you look at first unofficial match with a trained fighter Sean Gannon, he got smoked...I knew right there and then he wouldn't survive the octagon. Sure he ran over Cantrell and Abbott but he had a real hard time with Thompson.
Fedor would destroy him, even Lesnar would do him in. So yes KIMBO sucks. and Carano is hot!!!
The front kick keeps Kimbo separated, for the short right to the jaw, which stuns him, and he drops to all fours instead of moving in to clinch and clear the cobwebs. Once on the ground, Petruzelli hits him with 10 (I counted) unanswered blows to the head. When a fighter is not intelligently defending the ref HAS to stop the fight, in order to protect the fighter.
Further, look closely on the back-camera feed of Kimbo's eyes when the ref is over him, shielding him from Petruzelli, immediately AFTER the stoppage. He is NOT focussed on anything. He is NOT there. If you go back to Karo Parisyan's last fight (another alleged quick stoppage), he at least was attempting to clinch and protect himself, albeit with the ref who had moved in and not his opponent.
This was a good stoppage. Kimbo was gone, and the ref prevented some serious damage. I am not a Petruzelli fan, and will admit to despising the Kimbo "phenomenon". But if this was any other fight, on any other night (say a Houston Alexander bout), no one would be batting an eye over this. That said, Kimbo's 15 minutes are over, as is EliteXC's.
When Kimbo went down, the first hammer fist hits him square in the back of the head... the ref should have seen that, and stopped things there... given Petruzelli a warning and Kimbo a chance to recover. I don't think any other strikes after the first one were blows to the back of Kimbo's head, but the ref did miss the first one.
As for stopping it too early... I don't think so. Petruzelli lands numerous unanswered blow to Kimbo's face, and Kimbo's hands never once came up to attempt to cover up. He was stunned, and he was vulnerable! Nothing wrong with the stoppage. If you don't want the fight stopped, you have to show the ability to defend yourself, either by covering up, or by slipping some of the blows. He's so out of it, he clinches the ref after the fights stopped.
Kimbo was a circus show, and I for one am glad the show is over. Hopefully an aging Couture can end the Lesnar hype as well, and we can get back to real MMA. I think Mir/Nogeura will be the best big fight in quite some time!
War Fedor!
It's the end of non-UFC MMA promotions thinking that they can grow bigger than UFC.