Those were not matches. Kimbo has a good angle on his hooks, but has relentless persuit and decent guarding. I give the matches an F. These fat dudes couldn't possibly be the leading contenders., right? Of course I've never heard of these guys, and this might be a sham. maybe, maybe no
Most of the guys Kimbo fights are fat or smaller than him. I wonder how he would do against someone more his size? Kimbo vs. Tank seems like the best fight (two sluggers going at it) I think Kimbo against any of the real fighters like Coleman, Frye, even the new comer Brandon Vera would wipe the floor with Kimbo. J
I hate when people say about Judo, or Taekwondo, "how is that going to fare in a real fight?" Its not like people spend a lot of time wondering how an NBA basketball player is going to fare in an NFL football game. Judo is a sport with rules. In the UFC there are many people who do similar things but to Judo matches but its a different context with different rules. In football you might do many things similar to basketball but there are different rules and a different context. To address the question though directly the skills and training in Judo though can and do translate to UFC and MMA provided that the Judoka are able to adapt to the different rules and other things. For instance what the Gracies do is essentially early Judo since Gracia family learned Judo from one of the primary students of the founder of Judo, Dr. Jigoro Kano. While Judo is descended from unarmed combat techniques a Judo match isn't a fight, its a match. FYI UFC or even the stuff Kimbo does isn't a fight either. There are rules, like a 30 second count, and there are also people mediating to make sure those rules are enforced. A real fight isn't going to be that and you would be a fool to go into the guard in a real fight on the street or in a bar or most places outside a dojo or ring. Back to my original point though I would rather watch highly trained atheletes competing at the highest level of competition taking each other on that hacks slugging at each other in a parking lot.
Look at Karo Parysian and Nasty Nastula. 2 very good mma fighters who are based in judo. Of course there is a transition from pure judo to mixed martial arts that fighters have to make, but judo can be a good foundation for mma because of the throws, clinch work, submissions and ground game.
Kimbo looks like he has more than enough boxing training(plus 100 extra lbs of muscle) to absolutely murder Matt Hughes in a boxing match unless it went long and he got tired.
You've got to be kidding. A bum street fighter who loses half of his fights is going to beat one of the top fighters in the world? Right.
Kimbo has had serious boxing training, it's apparent from the videos and that's the word on the internet according to him, his handlers, Gannon, etc. Matt Hughes is not a boxer. He has MMA boxing training, but he would get destroyed at boxing by most club fighters - that's what happens to most MMA guys who try to cross over. Hell it even happens to most kickboxers. Guys like Mighty Mo and Ray Sefo are top flight K-1 fighters (who would DESTROY Hughes standing up) but get punked by Tomato cans when they go to real boxing (which they frequently try, because it pays better.). See Travis Fulton. Assuming their boxing training is relatively equal, in a regular boxing match He would CRUSH matt Hughes into submission by virtue of his size alone. That's why it was a big deal when Roy Jones Jr. beat John Ruiz (only a 35 lb mismatch). Weight makes a HUGE difference.
I agree... It really depends on what the set rules are. If it is stand up boxing, I'd say Kimbo would destroy Matt Hughes.. Any other rules (including K-1 style stand up) Kimbo would probably lose.
This quote and the associated fight clip reminded me of a Lamar Lathon/Spencer Tillman fight during the '93 preseason that I saw either on a Fox 26 or KHOU news broadcast. I think Lathon had just come off a long contract holdout, or something, and got into this fight at practice with Tillman where he was slamming him into the ground like, three or four times, though they were both in full pads.
