Kimbo Slice Will Finish Off What Dana White Started

Oh my...

Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock

Well, I guess, from all accounts, they got the "SHAM" part right!

Bellator, a lesser MMA organization (gee, that sounds familiar!!), put this on as the major eye-catching event of their 138th card.

Never mind that Shamrock is past 50 and Slice, the Internet street-fighter, is 40 now.

This is what resulted:


As you watch the fight, keep in mind what Jack Slack said in the article:  There's a lot of "mouth-to-ear" in the early portion of this fight.  For anyone who knows of fixed fights, this is the perfect method of communication between two fighters.  It proves, otherwise, next to nothing, but when you add some of the other factors in play...

Shamrock should've been able to carve Slice up and spit him out, especially as he grabbed Slice, neutralizing any striking power Slice had, and just paraded him around the ring.

Then he got him down, and it should've been over then and there...

Shamrock, purportedly, has a rear-naked choke on Slice for the better part of 20 seconds.

I want to show you another video, this one from ESPN Sport Science.

Some idiot from ESPN (and that's all I can say about him, after you realize what happened) allowed himself to be put in a rear naked choke for the purpose of study of just what happens to the body after such an event.


The video states that a fighter only needs five pounds of force to choke someone out.

BJ Penn, who was measured to have a force 30 times that necessary, choked out the volunteer to a catatonic state in nine seconds.  Within six seconds, he's supposed to be fading out visually.

So how does Ken Shamrock (a supposedly accomplished MMA fighter, but with a long history of fighting in fixed fights (which see his WWE career)) have Kimbo Slice in a rear naked choke for THIRTY-FIVE SECONDS and then Slice is able to get out of it?

There's only one answer:  Shamrock never choked Slice.  And they had one of the name referees, John McCarthy, overseeing the farce.

Within ten seconds of resuming their feet, Slice KO's Shamrock.

Um...  NO.

And it's so obvious that you have to recall that Kimbo Slice, the Internet streetfighting sensation, was the centerpiece of an entire MMA organization, Elite XC.  In fact, a Shamrock/Slice main event was scheduled for October 4, 2008.

This was after Slice "defeated" James Thompson on May 31, 2008.  If you saw this fight, Thompson, by any measure of any sanctioning body, never should've been anywhere near a ring.  His left earlobe was swollen with blood from before the fight, and one shot to it exploded the ear, ending the farce in the third round.  The announcers hate the stoppage, Thompson SLAPS the official!

Shamrock had to pull out of the October 4 main event with a purported injury.  Seth Petruzelli was brought in as a last-minute replacement.  Slice took a pay increase, according to his Wikipedia page, and, it was also stated, Petruzelli was basically being put in there to trade with Slice, and get knocked out.

Petruzelli won the fight, knocking Slice out in fourteen seconds.  Elite XC folded nineteen days later.

It's clear to me that Kimbo Slice, though a very bad man, is also a very bad actor.  And if organizations like Elite XC and Bellator want to continue to put on fixed fights, they will finish what Dana White and the druggies at UFC have started.