MMA Weekly:Brett Rogers on Kimbo-Shamrock match: “We waz wobbed!”

Looking more like “Mr. T” with his do and acting more like the phony wrestler on an 80’s TV show, Brett Rogers went on trash-talking Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock.

Elite XC looks excitedly towards October 4 for another MMA tv blockbuster headlined by Kimbo Slice.  Hanging on to the thin thread of salvation, Elite XC clings on the the Gina Carano-Kimbo Slice combination as sure-fire crowd-drawers.  While it was easy finding a match for Gina Carano in Kelly Kobold-Gavin, fight organizers took a while before deciding on pitting Ken Shamrock against Kimbo Slice.

And here comes Brett “the Grim” Rogers crying, “We waz wobbed!”

Rogers says the October 4 match with Kimbo Slice was, “our spot. Shamrock with his name and giant ego butted in line to get a slice of Kevin. At 103 years of age Ken usurped our rightful place against the YouTube champ. Our sincerest hope is that Ken whips Kimbo and then we can finally euthanize the "World's Most Dangerous Man" and relegate him to some MMA dinosaur exhibit. Maybe taxidermy him and (Dan) Severn and place them on a rotating pedestal where they can endless circle each other.”

Rogers’ contention is that if Kimbo can slice Shamrock, a true-blue MMA fighter inside-out, it would lend more credence to Kimbo’s having “paid his dues.”  As we see it, Ken fits the bill of anyone who should fight Kimbo Slice, if we are to use Elite XC’s requirements of a Kimbo Slice fight: old, fading, has-been MMA fighter who does not pose a threat to their poster boy’s saleability as an MMA crowd-drawer.

Kimbo Slice loses and his gold shines lesser.  In fact, it that it would hurt him far worse than another mixed martial arts warrior who would lose.  Take Randy Couture, Tim Sylvia, Robbie Lawler…name any MMA fighter and make them lose.  If they do, life would go on for them as they pick up the pieces and pick another fight to regain their glory.

That wouldn’t be the case with Kimbo Slice.  He’s like a clay jar. Crack it, and it’s cracked forever.

This is what makes Kimbo Slice more interesting as an MMA prize bout.  Elite XC dangles him up like a piñata but they dangle him high enough to get hit and that only the short ones are allowed to hold the bat to take a shot.

This is what Brett “The Grim” Rogers is all crying about.  In a way, he doesn’t fare any better than Kimbo Slice in the hierarchy of fighters.  He is an out of shape fighter looking out for a shot at glory and Kimbo Slice is surely a good ticket to the big league casting.