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foxdog1923 wrote:First time I seen Kimbo, I thought it was weird how he and his opponent would get into a street fight without any verbal argument at the start or no touch gloves. It was straight take it to the turf and scrap it out.

R.I.P Kimbo.

They really weren't street fights in the sense that he and his opponent got into an argument. They were arranged Bare-knuckle matches with side bets that were videoed to generate you tube ad money.

Kurgen22 wrote:

foxdog1923 wrote:First time I seen Kimbo, I thought it was weird how he and his opponent would get into a street fight without any verbal argument at the start or no touch gloves. It was straight take it to the turf and scrap it out.

R.I.P Kimbo.

They really weren't street fights in the sense that he and his opponent got into an argument. They were arranged Bare-knuckle matches with side bets that were videoed to generate you tube ad money.

Yeah that's why I said it was WEIRD. I know what you're saying but it is WEIRD.

I can't believe he was only 42, he looked much older than that. Hard life maybe?

BigRed wrote:I can't believe he was only 42, he looked much older than that. Hard life maybe?

If a hard life includes loads of PEDs, then yes

Wales wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I saw this was confirmed news yesterday, it was hardly in doubt!

I wonder if it was PED related, he did have a suspiciously bulked up look, and 42 is no age at all for someone who is fit and healthy to go like that, though of course it does happen.

No idea what he was like as a man, and wasn't really much of a fighter relatively speaking, not going to say I'm sad, bad for his family and kids obviously.

Very sad for his family, 6 kids without a father.

Just on "not much of a fighter relatively speaking" - depends on how you measure a fighter / who you're using as a comparison. He was 7-0 as pro boxer, and was 6-2 as pro MMA fighter, with most of those 8 fights being in UFC and Bellator. The man achieved more than 99.9% of fighters will ever achieve.

Ronnie Corbett, Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Ali, The Gorilla that played the drums on Cadbury advert now Kimbo.

He did well beating up bums on the street, I actually remember the video that got him famous downloading it on bearshare, him beating up some black guy in florida and letting him punch him in the face several times, made him seem like a monster, after this though he was floored by several of his fat opponents and lost to the boston cop .His boxing opponents all took disgraceful dives other than the 6-6 aussie guy who almost sparked him and he had a 5-2 MMA career and the first decent guy he fought, Ultimate Fighter tv show dropout Seth Petruzelli who came in on short notice, he lost in 14 seconds.

I hate to sound like a pudendum being negative about a man who recently died but he did extremely well for himself for some random big guy who learned a bit of boxing in prison and got famous from one video

MrakBrak wrote:

BigRed wrote:I can't believe he was only 42, he looked much older than that. Hard life maybe?

If a hard life includes loads of PEDs, then yes

Might explain his serious heart condition too, for a man of 42 to have serious congestive heart failure suggests some form of drug abuse, and judging by his physique PEDS seem likely.