Cage Rage Invite for Kimbo Slice

“Kimbo Slice” Kevin Ferguson had his toughest battle yet to retain his unbeaten record at Elite Xtreme Combat: CBS Saturday Night Fights. He beat one Englishman - but a couple others are eager for a crack at the Internet street fighting legend.

Kimbo has received an invitation to come to England to check out his challengers in the flesh. The following statement appeared on the website of the British promotion Cage Rage - cagerage.tv:

“Everyone at Cage Rage would like to acknowledge the phenomenal effort by the UK’s James Thompson in his dramatic battle with “Kimbo Slice” Kevin Ferguson on Saturday, both Robert Berry and Neil Grove have extended their praise in a fantastic effort.

Buzz stated:

“Kimbo has tasted what the English have to offer and is prepared to offer him another slice, but this time it will be a piece of Buzz… I’ve beaten one legend, now give me the chance to take down another”.

Neil Grove, who disposed of James Thompson in 11 seconds also feels that he is worth a shot at Kimbo. Both fighters have offered to chip in for Kimbo’s flight from the states to be ringside on 12th July at Wembley to watch their titanic battle and see if Kimbo wants a shot at the winner of this bout.”

Although Kimbo’s latest performance has received mixed reviews - his mentor, Bas Rutten, says he was satisfied. He gave his opinion on his website - basrutten.tv:

“Ask any fighter on the planet if they fought more than 1 round when they fought their first couple of fights, how they felt. They will tell you that they thought they were in great shape but got tired really fast.

In training you can do pretty much anything to bring your heart rate up. Focus mitts, Thai pads, takedowns, running hills, explosive weight training etc. but NOTHING compares to getting tired in a fight, it’s just a whole different ball game.

But once you know this and experienced it one time, you know what to expect in the future.

That’s why I think that this fight was great for Kimbo, he really had to dig deep and boy did he do that. He was so tired at the end of round it was crazy, but he went out in round three and just started throwing bombs again, that says a lot to me about his will power, trust me, it has been tested here!

He had Thompson in trouble the first and the second round with his punches but he got a little bit too “hungry” and kept on hitting which means that he planted his feet and that means that your opponent can go for a takedown, and that happened too. But here I go again, you learn from your mistakes and that won’t happen again.

They say “fatigue makes cowards out of man”, well, that wasn’t the case with Kimbo, he kept on fighting, his technique got less because of it and people will now judge him on that, but that’s OK, he will be a different kind of animal next time.

And one more time to finish this story, although Kimbo was the main event and everybody see him as a main event so expect this “perfect fighter”, this was only his fourth fight, he will tell you, and everybody else, that he’s still a little guy trying to learn the game. For somebody who did this only three times before, I say it was a great performance."