Kimbo was the equivalent of a kid holding a roman candle directly at your face. He brought MMA to the mainstream, sizzled their faces with blazing hot fire, then quickly burned out leaving everyone with third degree burns on their forehead. Even the naysayers looked at Kimbo in awe as he flattened out contestant after contestant after contestant after…then was dropped in the first minute by a replacement fighter. The impact of Kimbo getting served a first round KO led to total collapse of an entire MMA organization, the beloved (well I loved it) EliteXC. Sherdog stuck a microphone in Kimbo’s face as he talked about the past 4 years of his mulit-million dollar life (dude got $500,000 for his final fight with EliteXC). [Source]
