Frank Shamrock talks about Kimbo, CBS EliteXC card, fight with Ken and more:
On the CBS EliteXC card...
"All in all, I thought it was a good show."
"The whole Ken thing was awfully weird; the whole night was weird. It was just a weird night."
"I was impressed the most by Gina Carano. She steals the show every time."
"I was most disappointed in Ken, frankly. I don’t even know how to describe how terrible that was. That was not cool."
On his willingness to step in to fight Kimbo...
"We were there trying to figure out what to do and about an hour into it, I raised my hand and said, 'Look, I’ll step up and fight him and make the show a show. Shamrock replacing a Shamrock.' I put it out there and up until an hour before the show, I was fighting in the main event and it just didn’t work out that way."
"Seth is a great kid and he’s really tough, but no one knows him and that’s the problem."
"If I beat Kimbo, everybody gets it and Kimbo remains Kimbo. If Seth beats Kimbo, Kimbo is done, at least the mystique of Kimbo. It’s like when Mike Tyson lost his mystique when Buster Douglas knocked him out."
"It would have been very compelling to have me come out of my suit, get in the cage and kick his ass in my brother’s spot."
On his fight with Ken...
"Yeah, it’s gotta be done. My goal is to get that fight done the first quarter of next year."
"But really, it’s been a matter of logistics and every time I got close, Ken took another fight and then something bad happened. So it’s like this is a 2nd strike and I don’t think there’s going to be a 3rd. I think we have to fight or I gotta let it go."
More about Ken, Kimbo, Tito Ortiz, Cung Le, Anderson Silva and some other stuff in the full interview:
http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content3616.html
So why bother challenging him?
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lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
frank is 100% correct. honestly, i think hes a genius.
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
Read it again - he is comparing Seth to Buster not Kimbo to Tyson
That was actually a good interview.
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
Well, he didn't actually compare Kimbo to Tyson. He talked about the loss of the mystique when they lost to guys that were not high-profile fighters.
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
Actually, lol @ you not getting it.
Hannah Montana - Frank is the most unselfishness person in the world
Unselfishness Person.
LMFAO
yeah, it would have been cooler if frank fought kimbo instead of seth
ah well
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
To alot of the people that bought into Elitexc's hype, he was.
He's the greatest fighter troll ever! Lol
You have to admit, it would have been compelling if they had let Frank step up to fight Kimbo. It would have been a FAR better option in every way than having him fight Seth, win or lose.
Yes, it would have been compelling to see Frank step out of his suit and into the cage to fight in his brother's place. But how much more WWE could you possibly get?
tyson's comeback fight after douglas was huge. everyone wanted to see if it was a fluke or not. he destroys henry tillman who was a can and everyone at the time chalked douglas-tyson as just an off night for tyson. if they build up a 'redemption' angle for kimbo get another bo cantrell type out there then kimbo-mania will be back
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
just LOL
Josh Gibson - lol @ comparing kimbo to mike tyson
Yeah I LOL'd at this.
kimbo's prestige=tyson's prestige?? not in a million years. maybe to some jerk offs, nobody with half a brain would think something as rediculous as that nonsense. tyson retired is more to the fight game than kimbo slice.
This thread has been treated to a tasteful gang-rape of Josh Gibson.