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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST
Ok just watched the fight on youtube (the video was terrible quality but i got the gist of it).
Thompson was clearly on his way out, I think it was an early stoppage but his ear was a fucking MESS! It was thompson's corners fault for not getting that thing drained before the fight.
Alot of the fights tonite seemed to be stopped very short, hence my thought is that CBS does not want to go to crazy on the "gore factor" and give their detractors too much ammunition for allowing cage fighting on cable tv.
I wonder who will fight Kimbo next? Is a rematch possibly in the works for James Thompson (doubtful)?
DH
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Yeah.. I thought Thomson's ear was about to fall off!
All heavyweights get gassed. I haven't seen a match where they didn't. I don't know what match some of you guys were watching, but Kimbo still had powerful punches even near the end.
Isn't Kimbo more a hand to hand type of fighter? I give him props for saying that he wanted to try to do some wrestling on the ground. If you didn't know, most non MMAs fighters new to MMA gets their ass HANDED to them no matter how big you are. Kimbo actually survived. That's something!
If anyone watched the Kung Lee vs Shamrock match, you can see guys can win if they avoid the ground. You just have to avoid the ground if that's not your specialty!
For all you MMA afficionados out there. Get real... did you not expect to be disappointed?
This is a gory sport on free, network TV! Of course they had to tone it down some. They're already getting a lot of press on ESPN. This show did it's job. It brought MMA to the masses. Those that didn't watch MMA before might become fans now. It's all about doing just enough to attract more fans.. Ultimately it's all about the $$$!