Bas Rutten: “I have zero respect for Kimbo”
June 20, 2009 by Ryan Harkness
Filed under MMA-UFC
As Kimbo Slice attempts to rekindle his guttered career on the Ultimate Fighter, he’ll have to do it without the support of his former coach and all around crazy person Bas Rutten. Back when Slice was the untested star of the EliteXC promotion, Bas was one of the few legitimate and respected mixed martial artists who were talking him up, calling him a talented newcomer who’d do big things if he kept working hard.
Unfortunately, Bas Rutten claims that around the time of the Ken Shamrock fight, Kimbo stopped listening to him and actually started to get worse. Here’s what he …read more
Bas Rutten Speaks On The Kimbo Slice Issue
January 19, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under MMA-UFC
Kimbo Slice has got a lot of flack since his debut in to professional MMA. As a headliner at Elite XC events with very few pro MMA fights under his belt, he drew a lot of verbal abuse from other MMA fighters and fans. I’ve even said a few words about him here, but after reading a segment in the latest Tapout Magazine, I feel that perhaps I was wrong to judge and talk badly about the man.
You have to think about it this way. On Youtube Kimbo Slice was a bad-ass street fighter for quite a few years …read more




