CONTACTABOUTFACEBOOKTWITTERPODCAST IPHONE APPANDROID APPAMAZON APPWINDOWS APPRSS
NEW FORUM

GOT THE MMATORCH APP YET?
iPhone & iPad
Android
Kindle Fire
Windows Phone
MMATORCH IPHONE APP

MMATORCH

All the MMA News • Plus Intelligent, Brilliant, Addictive Points of View!
Independently Covering MMA Since 1993 • No Big Corporate Bosses

Penick's Take
PENICK'S BLOG: Final thoughts on Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson heading into tonight's Ultimate Fighter episode
Sep 30, 2009 - 4:45:56 PM
PENICK'S BLOG: Final thoughts on Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson heading into tonight's Ultimate Fighter episode
DISCUSS ALL THIS IN OUR NEW MMATORCH FORUM
...OH, ONE MORE THING - PLEASE BOOKMARK US & VISIT DAILY!


By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
The bout between Kimbo Slice and Roy Nelson is set to air on tonight's episode of The Ultimate Fighter, and the anticipation has reached a fever pitch the likes of which the show has never seen.

Dana White is predicting six million people tune in for tonight's broadcast, which would blow out the debut episode's viewership by a million fans. Keeping those viewers for the rest of the season will be the challenge after Kimbo's fight tonight.

The fight already took place, and the comments said by both fighters this week and Nelson's coach on the show Rashad Evans suggests that it was a good one. Kimbo said that it was his best fight, and that he has "nothing to cry about." Whether that means he won or lost is something we'll find out tonight, but in all honesty it's a fight that Roy Nelson should win.

Nelson is the more technically sound fighter and has fought bigger names and better fighters than Kimbo is or that Kimbo has faced, and it's a fight he should take if he wants to be taken seriously as a threat to UFC heavyweights.

Kimbo simply needs a promising showing in this fight, so that win or lose he gives fans a reason to believe he's more than a sideshow. From what's been said it sounds like he's done just that.

So the next thing to look out for once this episode airs is just how many fans are brought in. If the UFC hits 6 million viewers for a non live fight on cable television, that's going to set a watermark for Strikeforce as they bring their brand to CBS in November. If they can't get that many people hyped up to watch Fedor fight for free it will be seen as a failure in marketing the fight, and the UFC will always have the rating from this Kimbo v. Nelson fight to tote over anything they do on CBS.

I think Roy Nelson wins this fight that airs tonight, but I would be pleasantly surprised to see Kimbo prove Dana White and a large group of fans, myself included, that wrote him off last year. He's getting the bad taste left by EliteXC out of many mouths with his appearance on this show, and a win over Nelson here would nearly erase that memory and place him as a legit fighter in MMA and not simply a backyard brawler.


DON'T GO YET... WE SUGGEST THESE MMATORCH ARTICLES, TOO!
UFC 195 PREVIEW: Penick's main card preview and fight picks for "Lawler vs. Condit" event
Penick's 2015 MMA Awards: "Submission of the Year" - Ronda Rousey's inverted armbar over Cat Zingano at UFC 184
Penick's 2015 MMA Awards: "KO of the Year" - Holly Holm's head kick over Ronda Rousey at UFC 193

comments powered by Disqus
HERE ARE EVEN MORE ARTICLES THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU

SELECT ARTICLES BY CATEGORY
SEARCH MMATORCH BY KEYWORD


MMATORCH CALENDAR OF EVENTS
CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF UPCOMING MMA EVENTS
CLICK TO SEE A UFC VIDEO BELOW

ARTICLES OF INTEREST ELSEWHERE
MMATORCH POLL - VOTE NOW!

Will T.J. Dillashaw and Urijah Faber eventually fight?
 
pollcode.com free polls

Do you think Daniel Cormier will defeat returning Jon Jones to legitimize UFC Light Heavyweight Title reign?
 
pollcode.com free polls

VOTE IN OR SEE RESULTS OF PREVIOUS POLLS

MMATORCH WEEKLY LIVECAST
Listen to the weekly MMATORCH LIVECAST on Blog Talk Radio


MMATORCH STAFF

EDITORS:

Wade Keller, supervising editor
(mmatorch@gmail.com)

Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
(mmatorcheditor@gmail.com)

STAFF COLUMNISTS:

Shawn Ennis - Jason Amadi
Frank Hyden - Rich Hansen
Chris Park - Matt Pelkey


Interested in joining MMATorch's writing team? Send idea for a theme to your column (for Specialist section) or area of interest (i.e. TV Reporter) along with a sample of writing to mmatorch@gmail.com.

MORE MMA SITES
CONTACTABOUTFACEBOOKTWITTERPODCAST IPHONE APPANDROID APPAMAZON APPWINDOWS APPRSS
THE TORCH: #1 IN COMBAT ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE | © 1999-2013 TDH Communications Inc. • All rights reserved -- PRIVACY POLICY