Kimbo Slice “Impressed With His Performance” Against Roy Nelson, Would Rematch Petruzelli
During a Monday conference call with media, UFC heavyweight Kimbo Slice, a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 10 whose opening round fight against Roy Nelson, billed as “the biggest in Ultimate Fighter history”, airs on Wednesday, talked about the fight and commented on a potential rematch with Seth Petruzelli, who handed him his only career MMA loss last October.
“I was impressed with my performance,” Slice said of his fight with Nelson, adding that he’s now training with American Top Team in preparation for a December bout at The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale, though whether he’ll be competing in the heavyweight tournament finals remains to be seen.
“No one ever approached me with no rematch with Seth, and I never turned that shit down. That right there is B.S. It didn’t happen,” Slice responded when asked about Petruzelli’s claims that he declined a rematch. “If Seth signed with the UFC, and if Dana and them want to match it up, damn right I’ll run it again with him. We don’t even need to do it in a ring. We can do it bare-knuckle style because I don’t like liars. I’ve never turned down a rematch with anybody. Anyone I fought, I’ll fight them again.”
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Seriously, I keep liking Kimbo more and more. Training with a good camp now, keeping it cool (so far) on TUF, being humble and willing to take direction and improve his game. Color me impressed. Hope he keeps it up and does well, and good to have him in the UFC (never thought I’d ever be saying that).
yeah, my opinion towards kimbo totally changed when he became part of TUF. nice humble guy. i wish him luck.
My opinion of him as a person may be better, but my opinion of him as a fighter hasn’t (and likely won’t – until he has faced some more real competition).
Third that motion. If anything, I’ve felt bad for him being in the house. This guy could have easily made truckloads of money with his name by going somewhere else, but chose the hardest route. That’s character.
I’m becoming a big fan of Kimbo.
Great character, I love what he is all about.
Who is he training with at his new camp??
Haha, Kimbo reminds me of a more real Rampage Jackson!
KIMBO SLICCCEE!
KIMBO !!!
2 words
shave your chesttt
{2 words}
{Shave your chest}
Thats awesome…LOL
i think this is kind of giving away results… what do you think kris k?
i was about to post the same thing but you beat me to it. so i guess this means that he doesnt get ko’d? lol, unless he was impressed with how he got ko’d. dana cant be happy with this
No,it’s not giving away results, and BTW Kris wrote the story, I’m sure he’s already considered that.
There are certain things that UFC brass allow to be said about results of TUF fights. This is one of those times where it just adds to the hype. Still could go either way. And, who would want to see a rematch of him and Seth P. No one is calling for Tim Hague to get another crack at that Duffee kid. Deserving, NO, not at all.
I mean if he’s impressed with the Nelson fight maybe it just means its a close fight.
It remains to be seen if the rest of us will be “impressed with his [Kimbo's] performance”.
Hopefully, he beats Roy “Big Weeble” Nelson by “Holy Sh!t” knockout…
I stand by my earlier statements prior to a lot of you being here at frenzy…
YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE HOOD…
Thats right
funny surfking5.
kimbo is at the camp i consider to be the best in mma [American Top Team], i would love to see him and duffee spar. that would be cool.
i never had a problem with kimbo when he was with elite xc. i highly doubt it was his idea to be promoted the way he was. he couldve said no, but that would mean he wouldnt be getting paid anymore. i think he loses in the semis of TUF. emphasis on think. i have no idea about the results of TUF fights.
I’d like to see kimbo in the tuf finals, but if not what if they moved him to fill in a void in the Memphis card? With rampage gone and all… Could help with viewers
I think BJ Penn in a title defense is pretty good for viewers without the help of Kimbo. But Kimbo on any card is probably going to improve numbers, sort of like Brock Lesnar, Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture.
BJ is not a good PPV draw. The numbers in Philly were horrible.
800,000-1,100,000 buys is horrible?
The event was a farce, live gate was huge, sell out and approx million buys, great fights but people are upset and discredit the event because Penn DESTROYED KenFlo and Forrest didn’t last a round and it hurt everyone’s little feelers
Im really liking Kimbo hes a really nice guy. As alot of you said hes very funny down to earth and charismatic like Rampage. I think he did good with his fight and I think Roy who is a seasoned vet did horrible and took the cheesiest lamest way out because he new Kimbo hurt him. Roy would be an embarassment to the UFC. After that fight and the whopper comment I would never sign his ass.