I was watching some old clips of Kimbo and a thought came to me. If you were to assign a spec to this street fighting legend, which spec would it be?
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Does one or two things well out of about 5 important things. Beats unskilled opponents easily, can be countered by a more skillful opponent.
Randomly wins some fights vs higher skilled opponent due to retard strength.
Good analogy.
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Finally a ret thread I can post on.
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lol exactly what I wanted to post
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I’m Kimbo Slice. I’m competent enough to handle pillar humpers in open-world. I’d give it to Marksmanship. You got to know that any MM that’s high up in Arena started from the unprivileged bottom.
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When that fat guy smothered his face with that big slimy belly of his. Poor Kimbo…
He came outta nowhere with only his instincts to guide him. The man was a beast when you consider he had no real training.
What? Kimbo was a street legend. Fights were fast for the most part and that’s where he excelled. He didn’t have the stamina for long fights.
He wasn’t a grappler and never had any real boxing training. He had just instinct.
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He actually was training at a gym when he did these street fights. Now he wasn’t high level, but when you compare someone with 6 months-1 year of training to Joe Schmoe off the street it’s a significant difference. These fights weren’t really fair at all and just helped hype him up.
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Look at Kimbo and tell me you’d have had a shot at beating him in this fight if you’d had an equal amount of time to train.
He had natural ability. His punches were so powerful that they crushed eye sockets. You can hear how solid they land in this vid. I’m not denying that he had an advantage but he was going to have one against this guy either way.
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Oh yeah for sure. He was a beast no doubt and was very gifted. Just pointing out that these fight videos weren’t really honest.
Please forgive my ignorance, but who is Kimbo Slice?
He came outta nowhere. Just a guy from the streets. From 0 to hero type of dude.
A real success story…that is, until he died.
Basically he went from being a street fighter to an mma pro.
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Not to tarnish the guy’s reputation, Kimbo was a pretty good natural fighter. But barring a lucky punch someone with actual boxing training would have let him wear himself out throwing wild punches out in the Florida heat, then went at him.
You saw what happened when Kimbo fought highly trained people, he got embarrassed in UFC. He had a decent start to a boxing career (7-0) but he was also fighting low tier boxers with very few pro fights. The guys he was fighting in back yards mostly looked like they ate pork chops and gravy for breakfast, and in street fights 8/10 the person in better shape wins due to sheer stamina advantage.
Exalter is correct. Having training plus being in great shape would have a substantial impact on the outcome of those back yard fights, considering he was just fighting neighborhood dudes.
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Yeah, I know. This is the exact reason I can’t stand watching Mayweather fights.
Kimbo was very fun to watch. Reminds me a lot of a young Mike Tyson. 100 points into strength and 0 into stamina 
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wikipediad his career. kinda meh
I think he won like 5 out of 8 before he died.
Oh I agree, dude had a great Mr. T look, was muscled up and fought like a wild man. He was very entertaining to watch. Consequently it’s the same reason I don’t watch UFC anymore; I stopped finding it fun to watch when it went from a ruleless blood bath to a BJJ knee twist sport.
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Big hits and powerful knockouts are the best fights to watch. If I want something technically proficient, I’d watch the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight.
It’s hard for me to get excited when 1/4 of the match is clenching and 70% is dodging/blocking with only about 5% of the match being landed punches 
Plus, Kimbo has a special place for me because I used to do this same crap in my backyard (it wouldn’t go as far as what I posted). It takes a lot of guts to bare knuckle brawl like that.
I would leave him at a hailed street fighter and drop the mma pro part. Whenever he went to that ufc tv show with all the other fighters he kinda sucked from there on.
I wish he pursued a boxing career instead. The dude didn’t have the legs for mma.