Kimbo Slice's MMA Career is a "Traveshamockery"

The CBS network debut of Elite XC, featuring the ever-popular Kimbo Slice, earned huge numbers and an outstanding rating. But this whole promotion of Kimbo Slice being a MMA superstar is going to turn out being a disaster.

Kimbo Slice is very dominating when it comes to knocking out schleps in his backyard, but that kind of fighting doesn’t go far in MMA.

While Slice punished the 16-9 James Thompson, it was by no means an impressive performance. Slice may possess incredible punching power, but his lack of technique and conditioning will only get him by the bottom feeders of the Elite XC.

After the fight Kimbo was quoted “I can take a little ground and pounding, I won’t be tapping out from that. I’m still a baby at the game, I’ve got a lot of room to grow. I won’t be smoking as much, because I’ve got a lot of training to do.”

He won’t stop smoking, he just won’t smoke as much. Now that’s a champion.

This whole marketing tactic reminds me a lot of the movie King Kong. They capture this tremendous beast, and they plan to unveil it to the world in hopes of turning a huge profit.

They have Kong on stage locked with indestructible chains, and while no one knows what to expect, the crowd is warned do not worry; Kong cannot escape. Next thing you know, Kong does escape, terrorizes Manhattan, and falls to his death.

While Kimbo Slice won’t terrorize Manhattan, he also won’t beat any real MMA fighters. He’ll be successful as long as he fights the Joe Schmos of the fight world. The time will come when Kimbo has to step out on that big stage, and beat the very best.

Slice, too, will fall.