Kimbo Slice next fight against Brett Rogers in October possible

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Elite XC heavyweight Brett Rogers hijacked the spotlight in the wake of “Primetime” on CBS “Saturday Night Fights” last weekend, calling out Kimbo Slice for his lackluster performance against James Thompson in the main event of the evening.

Rogers — who knocked out “The Colossus” in the first round at Elite XC: “Street Certified” earlier this year — made a point to needle Slice in the post-fight press conference, which nearly led to an altercation on the podium.

“Da Grim” has kept a steady drumbeat of criticism rolling throughout the week, saying that Slice should either “step up or step aside.” Slice has remained silent for most of the public relations attack … until now.

While nothing is official, Slice has accepted Rogers’ challenge, telling Dan LeBatard on ESPN.com radio that the fight is on — perhaps sometime in October.

Here’s a snip from Kimbo:

“Considering Brett Rogers is as ignorant as he is, he’s probably looking at it like Kimbo Slice can be a meal ticket. Instead of making the fight at more of a business tip, this is going to be personal. This shit is personal now. If he wants to call me out, considering he’s going to get big money to fight me, then you know, from a business point of view, whoever was in his ear, they did their part, and now they got the fight.”

Short of calling out Kimbo’s mother, Rogers did and said just about everything he could to make this fight happen.

And apparently it worked, even though Elite XC Live Events President Gary Shaw indicated immediately following the fight that it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.

If it is indeed accurate — and Rogers and Slice didn’t just set this up themselves in the media — it could start a trend. If it’s as easy as posting a challenge up on a Web site and saying some harsh words at a press conference, then Kimbo might have a line out the door after his next fight.

If he wins, of course.

Stylistically this is a fight Kimbo should want. Sure, Rogers is the bigger fighter and Kimbo just had a tough time with Thompson’s size, but Rogers is a different fighter than Thompson. He wants to stand and trade with his opponents, which is Kimbo’s bread and butter.

Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Rogers.

The knocks on Kimbo have been his inexperience and ground game. Nobody has ever questioned his stand up, and now Brett Rogers will most likely look to prove Kimbo is all hype by beating him at his own game.

We’ve all begged to see Kimbo’s ground game get tested. Perhaps now we’re finally going to see his stand up get tested. Add in some animosity from Kimbo’s side and we got ourselves a heck of a fight to look forward to this fall.

Kimbo mentioned the fight would probably take place in October, which may or may not be the next event on CBS. Either way, is this a fight anyone is going to want to miss? I think not.

Here’s what Kimbo had to say when asked directly from Letard if he was fighting Rogers next:

“Yeah, hell yeah, I got to fight him man. This man just called me out.”

Aright Brett, you got want you wanted. Now lets see if you can back those words up with a win. Stay tuned, October is a long way away — this will certainly get a lot more interesting before then.

Written by admin on June 6th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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