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Juanito Ibarra

Tito Ortiz, MMA Trash Talker!

VS.

Tito Ortiz is being sued by Juanito Ibarra, “Rampage” Jackson’s former MMA trainer.  Ibarra is suing over an interview Ortiz gave back in 2008 to a website where Ortiz called him a “thief” who had financially “taken advantage of Rampage”.  “Rampage” and Ibarra parted ways after Jackson’s loss at UFC 86.

"Rampage" Quinton Jackson

Ibarra filed suit on Friday in L.A. County’s Superior Court; he claims the statements made by Tito are  false and “highly offensive”.

A bunch of sports websites then began publishing Tito’s comments and follow-up stories.

Ibarra is suing Ortiz and all of the blogs and publications that re-published the comments for defamation, invasion of privacy and emotional distress.

Ibarra is a fighting expert and claims he has trained more than 15 world boxing champions and numerous Olympic Gold Medal winners.  He is best known for his training in mixed martial arts with “Rampage” Quinton Jackson and for his boxing training days with Oscar De La Hoya.

Story courtesy of TMZ

In an interview with The Monsters in Orlando radio show on Monday, October 6th, Seth Petruzelli hinted that EliteXC promoters may have tried to rig the fight between him and Kimbo Slice.  Petruzelli said,

Ther promoter kind of hinted to me, and they gave me the money to stand and trade with him.  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.

The decision to stand up and punch it out with Kimbo definitely made the fight favorable for Kimbo, who is famous for his backyard street brawls.  A factor that Petruzelli took into consideration himself before the fight saying that his original plan was to get Kimbo to the ground and exploit his weak wrestling skills and submission defense, since Kimbo out weighed him by 30 pounds and it didn’t make sense to try and punch it out.  However, in the end Petruzelli decided to punch it out and it only took 12 punches and 14 seconds to TKO Kimbo.

If these allegations are true and EliteXC did give Petruzelli money to fight in a way making the fight favorable for Kimbo it can be a devastating blow to the MMA world.  They are already trying to prove that they are not scripted or fake like professional wrestling.

EliteXC has denied these accusations and Seth Petruzelli claims that he got the story confused.  Seth said,

What that meant was they offer a knockout bonus, submission bonuses, fight of the night bonuses.  I think it just got misconstrued.  I wanted to have an exciting fight and I wanted the knock out bonus so I wanted to keep it standing.

As a MMA fan myself, I prefer to see the ground fighting and submissions more than the standing exchange of punches.  It show their knowledge of mixed martial arts.  If I wanted to watch two guys exchange punches, I would watch boxing.  What do you think?  Did they try to rig this fight?  Have all of Kimbo’s fights been rigged?

Kimbo Slice will be beating taking on 44 year old Ken Shamrock at EliteXC’s October 4th ‘Friday Night Fights’ in Florida.

The fight that is scheduled to air on CBS is reportedly mismatched.  Shamrock is no doubt a MMA legend, but he has not won a match in the last four years and may be endangering his health by taking this fight.  Allegedly, Shamrock’s only purpose in this fight is to give Kimbo Slice more exposure and to buy some time for EliteXC to find him a more suitable opponent.

Kimbo first rose to fame as a street fighter on YouTube and has been trying to gain some respect in the MMA world.  However, he has only been giving beatable opponents to fight so far.  MMA fighter Brett Rogers, a more suitable opponent, wanted Shamrock’s spot for the October 4th fight and even challenged Slice to fight back in May.

It is now rumored that Rogers will be fighting the winner of the Slice vs. Shamrock fight sometime in the future.  If Slice can pull off a win against Rogers he may end the battle of proving his legitimacy as a fighter.  However, a loss against Shamrock or Rogers may cut his MMA career short.

I think people are underestimating Shamrock.  He has a lot more experience in the ring than Slice.  Plus Kimbo wasn’t even able to knock David Blaine down in one punch, do you really think he will be able to take down an experienced MMA heavyweight legend?

Rumors of a Tyson vs. Slice fight have been all over the internet, and since we all know who Mike Tyson is, I thought I’d give you some information about Kimbo Slice. Kimbo Slice is probably the most infamous youtube street-fighter there is.

Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson began his career as a street-fighter in Miami, Florida. He became famous after airing his street fights on youtube, some of which received over 3 million views. One of his most famous fights “Kimbo vs. Adryan” has been viewed 2,197,142 times.

Kimbo has now left street-fighting behind him and is working on a career as a professional MMA fighter. He has been training with retired MMA fighter Bas Rutt and made his MMA debut on June 23, 2007 at the Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5 in Atlantic City. Kimbo fought WBO heavyweight Champion Ray Mercer and won the fight in 1 minute 12 seconds by submission.

In October 2007 Kimbo signed a deal with Proelite. His debut fight with Proelite was on November 10, 2007 on EliteXc. Kimbo fought Bo Cantrell and won by submission, 19 seconds into the first round. His next match, “Kimbo vs. Tank Abbott,” was the main event at Proelite’s Feburary 16, 2008 EliteXC: Street Certified. Kimbo beat Abbott in 43 seconds by KO.

Kimbo Slice will enter the ring again on May 31, 2008 to fight James ‘Colossus’ Thompson. The fight will air on CBS’s Saturday Night Fights.