Kimbo is to MMA what Butterbean was to boxing. I think he’ll do great against MMA guys that just do stand-up. Get him on his back though and I’ll bet he resembles Kongo a few fights ago.

He’ll do really well at Elite-XC and may even win their belt, he just doesn’t belong in the same sentence right now as Fedor though, in my opinion.

“I’ll f***ing beat the **** out of Noons…”

Every Elite XC event seems to have a problem. The first event I watched, Frank Shamrock got DQ’d for throwing rabbit punches. The 2nd one was in a stadium that seated 100,000 people and maybe 10,000 showed up (many of them receiving free tickets). Now this one where we get 2 stoppages due to cuts and the co-main event ends in 19 seconds.

Despite the setbacks, I still think more MMA is more gooder.

Dana will not risk having Dan beat Silva and then being out of contract, holding the Unified Pride/UFC Championship. There are too many players right now looking to drop big money to sign top talent and Dan’s no spring chicken. He’d be foolish to at least not consider outside offers. Don’t forget, he’s best buddies with Randy Couture as well, and you see how his relationship with the UFC has been lately (the latest is Wanderlei Silva couldn’t wear “Team Couture” clothing and couldn’t be filmed at Couture’s training facility for his upcoming “All Access”).

I don’t know that I’m anxious to see a Super HW division in the UFC though. I like that they stop at 155 and leave the lighter weights to the WEC.

Hey, at least they’ve got us talking about him, which is what they want.

The only Sean Gannon I know hasn’t fought a sanctioned professional MMA match in 2 years and his last fight was a loss to Brandon Lee Hickle. Kimbo would not stand a chance against Fedor at this time.

Whatever happend to him fighting Tank? I know after the Slice-Mercer fight there was some **** talking between em. Tank has the power to knock him out if he can land a solid punch in the first…..umm, like 45 seconds, other than that, hes done. But your right ravine, it prolly wasnt rigged, I was just disappointed in Bo for tapping from a elbow…most fighters would fight out of it or try to until the fight is stopped.

As far as the Kimbo fight….can you say rigged? I wonder how much they paid Bo to go down. He caught a minor elbow to the face, dropped down and started tapping. Are you serious?

Vampslayr, did u say Do won?? I had no sound when I was watching it at the bar, but he looked like he lost

As for the fight, Noons definitely won the 1st Round. The doctor stopped the fight after Diaz took a knee to the head that cut his right eyelid. With blood running into that eye, Diaz took damage to his left eye and had blood covering both eyes. After the 1st Round, Nick’s cut team was attempting to stop the bleeding, but Diaz kept moving his head around making it difficult to stop the cuts. Nick can talk about cuts all he wants, but Noons won the battle in the ring. In fact, with almost every punch thrown by K.J. he kept dropping his head low to his right. I’m surprised Diaz didn’t pick up on that, not to mention Koons consistently lowering his hands. Great first round, just disappointing it had to be stopped.

Kimbo vs Bo was a complete joke. Bo came out with a spinning back fist before cowering to the cage. Kimbo connected with a slicing elbow and down went Bo. He tapped due to strikes almost immediately. I hope Elite-XC withholds some of his pay due to that pathetic showing. Bo won due to psyching out his opponent (I think Bo wore a diaper instead of a jock strap).

Shields vs Pyle started off pretty evenly. Once it got to the ground, Jake really took over like a python just working it closer and closer until you knew it was only a matter of time. He finished with the rear naked choke and should have won the 170 lb belt. The problem, was that Pyle didn’t feel he’s been properly promoted within Elite-XC. This was the last fight on his contract, he didn’t want to renew so it became a 3 round non-title fight since XC doesn’t want the chance of Pyle winning the belt and then quitting. Everyone in Team Couture must be drinking the same Kool-Aid as Randy these days.

Seth Kleinbeck vs Kyle Noke was the best fight aired last night. The problem was that it was stopped in the 2nd round due to another cut. Noke is a little known from Australia, but this man has a lot of potential. His Jiu-Jitsu looked phenomenal last night and his guard was extremely active (nearly had several different arm bars in the 1st round). In the first round, the stand up was won by Seth (barely) and while Seth was on top during the ground portion of the round, it was Noke that was more active. I have the 1st round to Seth (by a narrow margin). In round 2, Kyle dominated. He took Kleinbeck down and punished him. The show stopper (literally) was a vicious elbow that landed on Seth’s skull above his left eye. That busted him open and led to the fight being stopped. It was one of the worst looking cuts you’ll ever see (I had it in high def and you could see skull). Nasty! Noke is one to watch out for at 185.

The Super Heavyweight fight between Silva and Wiezoerek was funny to watch (it was actually pretty entertaining). Silva is as big as Tim Sylvia and is not only as quick with his hands, is quicker at making take downs. Silva dominated the entire 3:12 minutes both on his feet and when it went to the ground. Jonathon didn’t stand a chance the entire match and ate a ton of hammer fists and strikes while on the ground. He looked a little scared after taking a hard leg/knee (can’t remember which) early on to the mid-section and you could just see his face as it went from “will to win” to “oh no”.

Those were the 5 fights shown last night and that’s how I saw ‘em. Hope that adds a little more insight for everyone.