Kimbo Slice vs. Ray Mercer Fight *VIDEO*

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Man. That was horrible.

I will say that if Kimbo continues the path he is going down he could be a decent fighter. Though like Tommy Morrison I would prefer if his "MMA" (I know Kimbo has fought in other fights but they were not MMA in the least bit) debut was actually against an MMA fighter.

If not, I hope this goes a little bit toward proving the point that if you are just a boxer you will get worked in an MMA fight even against a regular opponent.

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Considering that Kimbo was completely dominating Ray Mercer as a stand-up striker, the point wasn't quite made.

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Kimbo might actually have a semi-decent future. The key is his wrestling.

He doesn't have to become a huge slick jiu-jitsu master, as long as he can do basic things like hold guard, hold the top position, etc. He looks like he can do these basic things given that he could finish a guillotine (on an opponent who had no idea what it was, i'm sure).

If he can learn good wrestling skills, I can see him playing the standup/GnP game with a little bit of effectiveness.

Now obv. wrestling a UFC heavweight to the ground is much harder than wrestling a 48 year old boxer to the ground, but at the very least, kimbo has a small chance to succeed.

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Is Kimbo really 33 or whatever? He looks a lot older. It looks like he put in a lot of work getting into shape though.

Mercer looked very out of shape. I think some boxers would do very well in MMA or any other fight (would have been more true when $ in boxing was so much bigger than any other kind of combat sport) but you can sometimes get away with being slow on your feet if you are a powerful heavyweight boxer, but obviously can't as an MMA fighter. Covering up and weathering the storm was just no good when you can be tackled and punched.

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Exactly. Covering up just made taking him to the ground a foregone conclusion. That didn't play to his strengths at all.

But he also seemed out of his depth in the striking. Kimbo was landing knees on him too, and he was answering with nothing.

Pretty pathetic. Then again, Mercer is 46 and hasn't been a boxer in his prime in a long time. I'm not sure there are a lot of washed up 46 year olds who would do any better.

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Who was announcing, i recognize the voice, but i am drawing blank!?

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Present day Kimbo vs. a 25 year old Mercer, who wins?

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Does Mercer get to stay retarded?

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wtf @ you guys downtalking Kimbo just because he murdered an old dude. Kimbo could be a beast with the right training, which he is apparently getting.

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maybe he'll become a rapper.

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wtf @ you guys downtalking Kimbo just because he murdered an old dude. Kimbo could be a beast with the right training, which he is apparently getting.



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How is he going to get the right training? He's 33. By the time he got enough training to become excellent in any one area (punching, kicking, clinching, submissions) he'll be 45 years old. ALL of the good MMA fighters have a very strong background in at least one area of fighting, and typically have a pretty good background in other areas.

IMO, he'll never reach a point where he becomes a favorite over good fighters, or even lower weight division fighters. I think Matt Hughes, Matt Serra, GSP, BJ Penn, Karo Parisyan, Jens Pulver, etc. would do extremely bad things to him.