For those of you that do not watch Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting or those of you that didn’t catch the the fight Saturday night let me fill you in.  Kimbo Slice who rose to fame on the internet by fighting anyone anywhere got beat down.  Kimbo is a street fighter and really has no formal training in martial arts until recently when CBS started up the Elite XC to somehow try and compete with the juggernaut that is the UFC.  Kimbo had three or four “professional” fights coming into Saturday nights fight.  The term professional is used lightly in that they were against fighters that were picked so that he would win.

On Saturday Kimbo fought a real MMA fighter in Seth Petruzelli after Ken Shamrock had to pull out due to the fact that he got a cut on his eye Friday afternoon.  Seth had been scheduled to fight earlier in the the night in a non-televised fight on the under card.  He was given the opportunity to take on Slice and gladly accepted it knowing that if he won it would be the biggest win of his career and catapult him straight to the top.

That is exactly what happened.  Kimbo came at him in a head down charge which Seth countered with a front kick and side step to the left while throwing a left jab that cut Kimbo above his right eye.  That one hit was enough to stun Kimbo and led to Seth beating the Crap out of him.  I hope that this is the end of the circus act that CBS and Elite XC have been trying to promote.  Let’s hope that they stick with real fights between trained fighters.  Below is the circus act fight.

Now a real fight between two trained fighters

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