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Addressing the notion of Kimbo Slice as a boxer
By Zach Arnold | June 3, 2008
Josh Alper at AOL Fanhouse got the ball rolling with this post yesterday about such prospects, given that Gary Shaw has EXC champion KJ Noons under a similar situation (as a boxer & MMA fighter).
This morning, Santos Perez in The Miami Herald brings up the idea of Kimbo in boxing and thinks that it would be a good move.
Given that Gary Shaw has so much invested in the Kimbo Slice phenemenon, it would not be much of a surprise to see a cross-over transition take place soon.
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kimbo’s striking is nowhere near good enough to be a boxer. i dont think he can strike with any of the top hw’s of mma let alone boxing. i could see him getting ko’ed by arlovski, tim, bigfoot silva on and on
No, it doesn’t make sense.
Kimbo must headline the EXC on CBS cards and that doesn’t leave him time in between to box. Not saying he could if he wanted to but the name isn’t there, the money isn’t there, and the time isn’t there.
Mark Gastineau couldn’t box either but that didn’t stop him. Butterbean was pretty bad and had a few obvious Pro Rasslin style works on national TV. I would love for Kimbo to go into boxing. Let Kimbo be boxing’s image problem not MMA’s.
I don’t think Kimbo would be an image problem for boxing. That may point to just how waspy MMA is (not the people watching, clearly boxing is even more waspy these days, but the fighters).
Boxing is WASPy? Did people of Mexican and Slavic descent become Anglo-Saxon Protestants when I wasn’t paying attention?
“Boxing is WASPy? Did people of Mexican and Slavic descent become Anglo-Saxon Protestants when I wasn’t paying attention?”
LOL yeah, right?
To Rollo about Gastineau. Good point about Gastineau, but it was proven thatout of his fifteen wins, about twelve of them or so were fixes. That would make Primo Carnera’s handlers back in the day go “damn!”. Good point about Butterbean too. But neither guy really fought many good fighters at all. Out of Butterbean’s eighty or so fight, only TWO of them were NOT four rounder. A six rounder where ‘Bean won a second round ko, and a ten rounder where he lost a unanimous decision to Larry Holmes. I think Kimbo would be better than Gastineau and Butterbean.