For the world's second-biggest mixed martial arts promotion. Against Kimbo Slice. Many will be outraged by this. Maybe I should be too. But you know what, Jeremy?
I can't bring myself to fake it. I am in love with this fight. I want this fight to have my babies. I want to make a scrapbook celebrating this fight and show it to the old women at church. Jeremy: No, you should not be ashamed. At least, I don't think so. I told people last year, back when Scott Coker announced that Tito Ortiz would be facing Stephan Bonnar in the Bellator cage, that there was a method to the madness.
MMA fans on message boards and Twitter were very upset. They told us how it was a farce and a mockery of the sport, how it would begin a downward spiral that Bellator could not recover from. Turns out they're all living in a bubble. But we knew that. With Ortiz versus Bonnar, Coker reached millions of casual fans who could not care less that the combined age of both participants was years old.
They knew who both fighters were, and they wanted to see them fight. They didn't care if it was a good fight or a brilliant technical match or any of this other crap the hardcore fans fawn over. They tuned in to see names. The formula was established on that night: put together a main event that will draw in viewers, no matter how ridiculous, and then stack your undercard with developing talent.
That's exactly what happened here. Kimbo and Ken, well, they're really old. But judging from the reaction to the announcement from casual sports fans here at Bleacher Report and beyond, I'd say Coker has another winning main event on his hands.
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He came in the gym with a humble attitude and was looking to learn. He wanted to become better and become a mixed martial artist. He was very much embraced. Slice eventually competed for several promotions, including the UFC and Bellator, and became one of the sport's most popular figures, attracting large TV audiences and crowds to his growing sport, despite not winning a title and having a record of Slice's unique look — a bald head and long, black beard — enhanced his legend as a destructive backyard brawler, even as he moved on to pro fighting in Recently married, Slice is survived by his wife and six children; he often credited his MMA career for allowing him to send his kids to college.
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