When YouTube streetbrawler Kimbo Slice was flattened by mid-level mixed martial arts journeyman Seth Petruzelli, it put a screeching halt to his MMA career, killed the promotion that had bet everything on his success, and saw UFC boss Dana White ridicule the big man as a “joke.”
As ProElite went bankrupt, Slice was set adrift, but the Ultimate Fighting Championship refused to come to his rescue. Instead, White told anyone who would listen that the only way Kimbo could ever be welcomed into the UFC was if he won his way through the Ultimate Fighter reality show, like any other journeyman.
This week, Slice accepted that challenge, and everything that was set in place for the tenth season of TUF was thrown into chaos.
Kimbo 3 – Canadians 0?
When YouTube streetbrawler Kimbo Slice was flattened by mid-level mixed martial arts journeyman Seth Petruzelli, it put a screeching halt to his MMA career, killed the promotion that had bet everything on his success, and saw UFC boss Dana White ridicule the big man as a “joke.” As ProElite went bankrupt, Slice was set adrift,…
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