B.S.

hype at its finest.

This guy isnt even the champ of his own promotion and he is talking shit! lol what a loser!

this guy sucks!

I know right……Look what happend to Lesnar.

Talk is usually cheap, but you have to respect Bas’s word even if he’s the trainer. It may be a few more fights before he needs a ground game. I like the “bring it on” part… like the fighters actually have a say in who they fight.

well this guy has actually has won some fightt unlike Brock… and they didn’t crown this guy like the UFC crowned Brock when he first came in. Kimbo is on the path to the title the right way, by fighting his way up the ladder and EARNING the strap. If Brock would have beat Mir, he would have fought for the title his next fight, HIS 2nd FIGHT EVER! thats just a whole lot of B.S.

Ummm actually brocks third fight.
And brocks athletic accomplishments area lot higher calibre than kimbos non existant ones.

Kimbo is a great guy. I have hope the best for him and I know whatever happens to him in his career.. i will be damn entertaining..

no STOP hating….. just let the man fight.. and keep moving up to HW ladder.

Why does everyone hate on him?

You can’t bash him for being inexperienced, he is new to the sport.

Thompson is a solid opponent for his 4th MMA fight….he beat some decent guys in Pride and is big as shit

Watch…Kimbo will keep fighting cans for his next 5 or so fights, so get used to it

u guys talking shit bout kimbo..i bet he;ll knock all of ur bitch asses out…hes new to mma and definately learning different styles..give him a chance

this talk is meaningless, prove yourself by fighting actual competition and not cans.

I think it’s funny that the MMA media outlets are trying to say people “hate” kimbo, but it’s not that we hate him, it’s the fact that the joke that is EXC brought in a thug from the streets to fight. Many, many fans of MMA don’t want to see their sport ruined and become a joke like the WWE where they’ve got these stupid ass story lines like Mayweather vs. Big Show. Bringing in Kimbo also discredits all those who have tried to make this sport professional because it gives other media outlets like Foxnews the opportunity to call the fighters barbarians. It also doesn’t help that Kimbo talks a lot of shit which he knows he can’t backup due to the fact that EXC is protecting him and giving him relatively easy fights.

Also, look how EXC promotes Kimbo… They held an event called Street Certified. They want to keep Kimbo as a thug and this sport doesn’t need that. I think it would help Kimbo if he tried to denounce what he did in the past and actively look to establish himself in a respectable organization other than the freak show that is EXC.

You all are crazy. All Kimbo says is bring it on. Others have been way more disrespectful to him than he has to anybody else.

You’d be pissed too if you only had two pro fights under your belt and Chuck Liddell was calling you out.

The not even top 5 in his own organazation is calling out people, lol what a joke. This guy is good for a freak show, that’s about it.

If anyone’s going to make this guy a real MMA fighter, it’s Bas Rutten.

Bas also trained Duane Ludwig, Mark Kerr and Amir Rahnavardi so…Kimbo says to “bring it on” but really needs a quality opponent to be taken seriously and James Thompson isn’t. This will do nothing to disspell naysayers. Put your money where you mouth is and fight a legit top 25 heavy.

I heard from someone recently in the stockton area, that he was training with Nick n’ Nate Diaz. The report was his BJ sucks, but he’s learning to be defensive from the bottom while trying escape to stand up. On top he’s a ground n’ pounder.

Sounds pretty basic, a lot like guys who like to stand up do…

I mean we really don’t expect him to really submit a tough grappler in a tight ground situation… seriously..

Joe are you saying that if you don’t wrestle, you have no accomplishments, if so you should be watching golf really because you have no Idea.

Kimbo = Great Fighter. Its That Simple.

Guys This Is Kimbos 3rd mma Fight. Give Him A god Damn Break. He Needs To Build His Carrer And Make Money To Feed His Family. And Please Stop Complaining About Thompson or Whoever It Is That He Fights.

So all that ever gets posted in forums are the extreme opinions, when in reality it’s probably more along the midline. Kimbo has the potential to be a great fighter, we all know that. We also all know that he is not proven yet. And he has to talk shit back to fighters and fans because there are some of them out there who talk poorly of him. In reality, we really don’t know if he is all that good or not. I do disagree with the Chuck hating though, Chuck said that youtube doesn’t make you a great mma fighter, he didn’t really call Kimbo out, though I think if chuck is being honest with himself, he’s realized that he’s damn curious about Kimbo and how a fight between the two of them would go.

Kimbo rolls with VIP crew….he should already know “ground and pound” really well!!! He boxes pretty decent and has a killer instinct. Let Kimbo crush cans this year and bring on some real competition in 2009….

Can we be serious…I hate it that all these people are getting offended by the “haters”. Why are you on his nuts? He hasnt done anything for the sport…yet. Dont get me wrong he has great skills to work with but since he is already in his mid thirties time is not on his side. He came from the streets, so they give him the nickname “street certified” but then Bas argues that he has never been arrested and that he is a role model?!?!? So whats the deal? Is he a thug or not? Did you see the hype video they are using for this guy? It looks like a youtube video, they are staining MMA with this guys past. Is it not bad enough that we have John McCain calling MMA “human cock-fighting” then we have fat ass Gary Shaw hyping up his big money maker as a MMA thug.
I like that he is really working hard to get established in MMA but by the time he is ready to start fighting top 25 HW’s, EliteXC will have folded by then. lol
He is trying to save face because the story leaked about him getting knocked out by forrest griffin and chuck is openly calling the guy a fraud. All the real MMA fighters know that he is sooo one dimensional that he is a joke!

Kimbo is going to lose his killer instinct as his fame grows. Mark my words, he has to remember who he is and where he has came from.

is there a reason that everyone expects this guy to have 3 fights and be the best ever. Let the guy work his way up. No one other than Lesnar have a record as short as that in the UFC. How many guys in the UFC have a record of only 3 fights other than Lesnar and Cory Hill. Christ give the guy time. Chuck called him out, not the other way around. Did anyone see Chucks first 3 fights? if you look at chucks first 5 fights he fought nobody’s except Horn who tapped him out. You ever heard of Noe Hernandez or Paul Jones. Everyone loves to hate on anything that is not UFC whether it’s Kimbo or Fedor or whoever. The sport is called MMA, not UFC. The UFC only makes up a portion of the sport. Not the entire thing. I think its funny how Chuck started this whole thing knowing that he will never have to fight Kimbo because he can hide behind Dana and his no-transfer clauses. I guarantee you that Kimbo would fight Chuck if Dana would allow it because he’s the type of guy that doesn’t seem to give a shit about whether he wins or loses or what people see him as. He just loves to fight. Now i’m not a huge Kimbo fan by any means but he never started any of this trash talking but he is gonna stick up for himself and you gott respect that. If Chuck thinks he can beat Kimbo and that Kimbo has no skills why not finish your UFC contract and sign a 1 fight deal with Elite and Prove to the world just how superior you are and fight him. Will never happen. People that talk smack knowing that they will never have to back it up are cowards.

True, Kimbo fought cans and whooped ‘em like any decent fighter would. I imagine most Elite MMA fighters want to catch him now, before he gets better. ’Cause that’s exactly what will happen, he will get better.

Yeah I don’t get all the hating. It makes no sense. Why does it matter what someone’s pedigree was before he entered MMA. Fist brawling, kick boxing, wrestling, as long as your good at MMA, there’s nothing wrong with it. And yet people start calling him out like Chuck. I’ll tell you the problem, a lot of fighters are jealous that he’s so popular without having beaten anyone significant. Otherwise why care? Is it the first time that someone entered MMA and fought low level fighters?

And I like his attitude. He respects people and then he gets negativity in return. So his answer to them is, “Bring it”. What is there not to like about this attitude? I love how game he is! He doesn’t want to banter!

Chuck, on the other hand, must be bored because he’s getting jealous of others’ popularity. He’s also still harping on the whole ‘UFC is better than Pride’ which is just so infantile and pointless.

Kimbo has to build hype for fights because he knows he has zero chance of climbing to the top of the mountain in MMA.
I’d love to see him fight Gonzaga.

yea so does crocop

if kimbo busted some ground and pound, he’d hammer fist chuck’s nosebone, stabbing chuck’s noodles like 32 cent cup o noodles. and yes kimbo can take chuck down.

if they stand the whole fight, chuck would do circles around kimbo worse than bruce lee to bolo, KO from signature: too many shots to the face, exchange after exchange. big surprise.

hurry up and fight already!

oooohhhh Bas “The greatest trainer of champions in history”R Rutten said it, so it must be true.

So sick of Kimbo exploiting MMA to make money.

Bas is a great coach. If i had a chance to train with anybody in the world it would probably be Bas or Randy.
Kimbo is not playing MMA he is taking it seriously and im sure his skills have improved greatly. So don’t look back at what he did in the past. Look to what he does in the near future.

look it all sounds fine and dandy what bas is saying, but gary shaw has already stated that his ultimate goal for kimbo is to make a name for himself in mma then transfer him to boxing, and shaw signs his checks so w’ell probably never get to see his much improved “ground game”. it kinda shows were gary shaw stands as well. at least thompson has a chance to win and will actually try and win, unlike bo cantrell.

and i dont have anything against kimbo, its not his fault hes popular, blame you-tube for that. brock lesnar will be the “experiment” that pans out for mma. he’s not going anywhere but up. the dude almost made it into the nfl w/ little to no experience. it was to late in life for him to make it in football, but w/his wrestling background he is just ready to hit his stride in mma.