[Centraal] MMA topic #17 With a new lightweight champion?

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Rutten on the fight in general:

I think that this fight was great for Kimbo, he really had to dig deep and boy did he do that. He was so tired at the end of round it was crazy, but he went out in round three and just started throwing bombs again, that says a lot to me about his will power, trust me, it has been tested here!

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.

Rutten on Slice’s performance:

So I have to say that I am very happy with this fight and his performance and that this fight made him WAY stronger for next time. When you get caught in training by something, whether it’s a submission or strike, you learn from that, but there is nothing like learning it the hard way in a fight.
And than be fortunate that you STILL win the fight by referee stoppage is just the best

Rutten on the stoppage:

He finished with hitting Thompson with a four punch combination with the last one of those being a hard right upper cut. Thompson staggered back and the referee stopped the fight. Was it too soon? I thought it would be great to see a few more shots just so that he was down for real. But I guess the referee had the two or three times that Thompson was hurt in the earlier rounds in his head, plus than he also got hit on his cauliflower ear that busted open and he had a different look in his eyes.

Rutten on whether the fight should have been stopped in the second round:

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.

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Op woensdag 4 juni 2008 12:55 schreef Unstoppable het volgende:
Nu binnenkort ook bij ons op tv:

***tromgeroffel***

Fight Quest

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Op woensdag 4 juni 2008 15:49 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:

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Ook als je bedenkt dat je zonder grote namen nergens komt. Dus als ze het geld goed besteden, doen ze dat aan wat grote namen.

Je ziet het nu ook bij Elite XC, ze hebben in principe maar 2 grote namen eigenlijk. Gina en Kimbo. Dat zijn de namen die iedereen kent. Dat Lawler 20 keer beter is dan Kimbo maakt het publiek dan niks uit.

Dat is ook trouwens de reden dat de 2de show op CBS van hun verlaat is, omdat ze niet veel vechters/grote namen hebben.

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Op woensdag 4 juni 2008 16:45 schreef roepdeman het volgende:
Juist Shamrock heeft dankzij zijn gevechten met Tito een grote naam!

@Dacide

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