ThreeStrikesandOut

Well. Apparently I’m not the only one who thought that the Kimbo Slice-Boy With Pink Hair fight was fishier than Tara Reid dipped in tartar sauce and served with white wine.

After the strange way that the fight began, with Ken Shamrock pulling out three hours prior to the fight, Seth whats-his-name being selected as a last minute sub, and Kimbo getting knocked out in 14 seconds. Mix all those ingredients together and sprinkle on top comments that Pink Petruzelli made to the media in which he stated that he was encouraged to stand and fight the grapple-challenged Kimbo.  Trying to get Pink to try to box/fight/slapfight Kimbo was something that (you would think) would have made it more likely that Kimbo would emerge the victor, and although that was a big bag of fail, if ProElite was indeed, trying to encourage how the fight was fought, they basically tried to turn their product into WWE (probably Kimbo’s next stop) for the night.  In the light of all that jazz and nagging by ESPN, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is going to be investigating the fight. From ESPN:

Shortly after stopping Kimbo Slice in 14 seconds in Sunrise, Fla., on Saturday, last-minute replacement Seth Petruzelli began granting interviews. But it was the one he conducted Monday with an Orlando, Fla.-based radio station that has put ProElite under the microscope.

“The promoters kind of hinted to me and they gave me the money to stand and trade with him,” Petruzelli said on “The Monsters in Orlando” show. “They didn’t want me to take him down, let’s just put it that way. It was worth my while to try to stand up and punch with him.” Petruzelli has since claimed his comment was “misconstrued.” But the damage was too great to simply go away quietly. His words implied that ProElite attempted to influence the fight, causing the issue to mushroom.

If ProElite was indeed trying to protect Kimbo they failed worse than Wall Street (said as I watch early retirement hopes go up in flames).  Boy, I bet they are really wishing that they had done the smart thing and canceled that fight.  Because, at the rate they are going, they are going to be bankrupt in about the same amount of time that it took for Kimbo to hit the ground.  I’ve tried to think of things that are faster than Kimbo’s demise in that fight and other than the Flash masturbating to pictures of Megan Fox, and the Cubs appearance in the playoffs, there ain’t much that I can come up with.

ESPN