Kimbo Slice Is the Kanye West of the Ultimate Fighter Heavyweights Show

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How many of you caught the premiere episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights on Spike TV?

I thought it was a solid episode overall. It kicked off with this season's team leaders, Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans, dissing each other about their losses. Evans tells Rampage that he's too slow and gets hit too often, and then Rampage disses him back talking about his recent knockout loss to Lyoto Machida.  

Like many other reality shows, TUF starts off the same by introducing us to all of the contestants, and this season it's all about the heavyweights.

Dana White had all 15 contestants stand at attention as he pointed out that there were only 15 contestants because he was going to give extra special attention and dramatic build-up to the one man that's going to get the masses to watch this show...Mr. Kimbo Slice.

Kimbo Slice walks in and many of the other heavyweights talk smack and say, "F-him." Right away Rampage picks Kimbo to be on his team. Rampage picks the larger heavyweights for his team, while Evans goes for the more technically sound heavyweights for his team.

Rampage selects his fighter Abe Wagner to fight Evans' fighter Jon Madsen. Abe has a successful corporate suit job as a director of finance but claims he fights because he wants to, not because he has to like the other guys who don't have his nice, high-paying suit job.

Madsen is probably the physically smallest and shortest heavyweight contestant this season, but he has a far superior ground game to Abe, since Abe has no ground game whatsoever.

The entire fight is summed up by Madsen tackling Abe and then pummeling his face over and over again. Abe could not get up from under Madsen for the life of him. We were forced to watch one of the most utterly one-sided, bloody beatdowns in MMA history.

There was so much blood coming from the deep cut wound on Abe's forehead that I even began thinking it had to be fake blood, for no one bleeds that much.

Rampage is a legend and one of my favorite fighters of all time, but he did not offer Abe any coaching at all (not that it would have helped). Rampage just kept telling Abe to, "Get up, do something Abe, get up." Then in the second round it became, "He's going to do the same thing to you, he's going to do the same thing Abe."

Finally Rampage gets so frustrated that he storms out before the fight is even over.

We then get a closer look at Abe's cut on his forehead, and it was something that I did not need to see. Apparently you could even see bone from his skull, as the cut was that deep. I guess this is what happens when you have no ground game, huh kids?

Even though there are 16 total contestants this season, one man got more camera time and focus than all of the other contestants combined—and yes, obviously it was Kimbo Slice.

Can the street fighter turn into a MMA fighter...blah, blah, blah.

All of the promos for The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights showed an image of Kimbo and no one else. I predict they will not even have Kimbo fight until late in the show just to keep him around for the ratings.

This is why I make the comparison of Kimbo Slice to Kanye West. For just as Kanye West's ultimate douche bag persona helped the MTV Awards and the publicity and stock of Taylor Swift skyrocket, it was West who got exploited and got the worst end of his ultimate douche bag appearance.

In the The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Season 10, Kimbo Slice is the Kanye West of the show. He will make the ratings go sky-high, and everyone will benefit from his presence, except for probably himself.

Hopefully for his sake, Kimbo Slice will fight better than everyone predicts of him, since they all are benefiting from his publicity.

The season looks promising with several former NFL athletes competing this season who already admitted that MMA training is far more intense than any training they encountered in the NFL.

Maybe Kimbo can interrupt the announcer declaring the winner and tell everyone that the other fighter fought one of the greatest fights of all time.

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