Kimbo vs Gannon

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Kimbo, the hairy motherfucker most famous for beating the shit out of some guy named Byrd and a few one liners including "Is that all you got?" and "A ******'s gotta eat," (http://www.sublimedirectory.com/basement/media/kimbo.wmv) fought tonight against six time Golden Gloves champion and mixed martial artist Sean Gannon. The fight was a bare knuckle boxing match. You can purchase the fight video here: http://www.fightauthority.com/store/view_product.php?product_id=2443&page=1
Gannon by KO
 
heh, I was going to wait until the video was available to make a thread. I've been reading the sparse info coming in on the fight on mma.tv.

Awesome for Gannon to win

Not sure if I'm going to pay for the fight. I'm sure it'll leak at some point anyway.

[/cheap bastard].
 
NLB2 said:
So am I Minotauro, but did you ever doubt it would?
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Eh, you never know. Plus, I'd never seen Gannon fight. Plus, it wasn't a MMA fight. Plus, there are like a million variables in an un-sanctioned, underground, bare-knuckle fight.
 
Reports are this fight went 20 minutes. For a bare knuckle stand up fight that is really strange, unless they took a long time to feel eachother out. I want to see this fight asap.

My poor Kimbo. :(
 
Boogie said:
Actually, is that the right link to where you can buy the fight? I thought it was going to be on www.whoopass.tv? Or can you get it from either site?
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Yes, its whoopass.tv Fight will be uploaded tonight. I ain't paying for it, but hopefully I'll see it soon.

The brawl afterwards is why I could not get details. They told me results and had to hold shit down.
Gannon was hurt and both guys are fucked up pretty bad. Gannon still won despite the rules. Absolutely amazing performance. He knews this would help his career and it has. Gannon is a fucking warrior guys. 15 minutes toe to toe fighting is what I heard. It was a hockey fight with no gloves or shirts. Just going at it back anf forth. In the end, Gannon got the bog knockout.
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Biff Hardbody said:
Reports are this fight went 20 minutes. For a bare knuckle stand up fight that is really strange, unless they took a long time to feel eachother out. I want to see this fight asap.

My poor Kimbo. :(
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Twenty minutes seems really strange considering the horrible cardio Kimbo exhibitted in his fight against Byrd.
 
Sokar said:
Was there any doubt Gannon wouldn't win? Dude sends Kimbo-like guys to jail for a living.
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I'll admit to a slight amount of worry. I mean, no one knew much about Gannon either, and when it was announced the fight wouldn't allow groundwork, I thought there was an outside chance that he might lose.
 
Why? There were Gannon threads all over Sherdog with his backgroun info. I had 100% confidence that Gannon would win. It sucks they stipulated no ground work, I would have loved to see Gannon choke Kimbo out. :lol

Comment from Sherdog:

Police>Felons
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:lol
 
Sokar said:
It sucks they stipulated no ground work, I would have loved to see Gannon choke Kimbo out. :lol
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I have to respectfully disagree. If they allowed ground work it wouldn't have been a fight at all. No one in there right mind thinks streetfighting > mma, and if they do they're to stupid to be persuaded by any demonstration of mma's superiority to streetfighting. However this fight may have shown to some people that boxing is a superior art to the brawling that Kimbo does (that is if Gannon actually boxed which, judging by his credentials, he did - I haven't seen the fight yet).
 
Sokar said:
Why? There were Gannon threads all over Sherdog with his backgroun info. I had 100% confidence that Gannon would win. It sucks they stipulated no ground work, I would have loved to see Gannon choke Kimbo out. :lol
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Well, I never would have predicted Kevin Randleman to knock out Mirko Crocop with a punch, but it happened.

I was only worried from the "anything can happen" point of view.

btw, welcome to GAF's small enclave of MMA fans. :D
 
Boogie said:
btw, welcome to GAF's small enclave of MMA fans. :D
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Heh, we're a niche inside a niche inside a niche.

While we're on the subject, can you believe that someone already registered "Minotauro" on XBox Live? I had to settle for "Minotoro." I tried some others out of curiousity and found that "Axe Murderer", "Sakuraba", and "Gracie" were all taken. Bah.
 
Another description.

The fight did in fact take place, and it was well worth the wait. I refuse to confirm or deny whether or not I was there, but there were almost 2 brawls, and they were during the fight. They had agreed to rules before the fight, and was a dispute about the rules. It was supposed to be all standing, but kimbo shot a single leg...not bad either, only he was getting choked, and I guess you weren't supposed to do that. One guy tried to rip gannon off, then he got ripped off by someone else, and it almost got real ugly. The second brawl was also about rules. As kimbo was just about out, Gannon threw a weak knee to the face, and I guess that wasn't supposed to happen either. Kimbo's people again tried to break things up, and it gave kimbo a chance to recover. It took 4 knockdowns to keep kimbo down. A ton of heart guys...buy the video.
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And yeah, put me in the boat of the people who was unsure of the outcome. Mainly because I had never seen Gannon fight, and I had heard his boxing was no good (just brawling). Whatever the case, he won big tonight.
 
This is going to cost money to see though, isn't it?

I would imagine that someone will host it eventually but I would doubt it would happen today.
 
I got some pics of the fight off of Sherdog. I'll hopefully have the video soon.
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KimboFiringDown.jpg

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I've got a 21 MB video that's really bad quality. I'm downloadig a 40 MB file right now, hopefully it will be better quality. And Biff, its most definitely a war :).

To answer the question of how it was possible for the fight to last so long one will see after they watch the video. Kimbo breaks the rules he made for the fight. For example, he shoots on Gannon and nobody does anything to stop it until Gannon gets Kimbo in a Guillotine. Also, Kimbo throws punches to a downed Gannon despite the no ground fighting rule. Majore proprs to Gannon. He won a fight when his competitor had a huge advantage over him.
 
Boogie said:
Well, I never would have predicted Kevin Randleman to knock out Mirko Crocop with a punch, but it happened.

I was only worried from the "anything can happen" point of view.

btw, welcome to GAF's small enclave of MMA fans. :D
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Well upsets happen in MMA.. but Randleman ain't no chump. He actually has skills. Of course he did get armbarred by Saku. :lol
 
The 40 MB file has some type of encryption protecting it and you need to use Fraps (fraps.com) to view it. Its just a twelve second clip near the end of the fight when the two fighters are completely drained of all energy. Its pretty amazing how tough both of these guys are. If want either of the files send me a PM.
 
NLB2 said:
I've got a 21 MB video that's really bad quality. I'm downloadig a 40 MB file right now, hopefully it will be better quality. And Biff, its most definitely a war :).

To answer the question of how it was possible for the fight to last so long one will see after they watch the video. Kimbo breaks the rules he made for the fight. For example, he shoots on Gannon and nobody does anything to stop it until Gannon gets Kimbo in a Guillotine. Also, Kimbo throws punches to a downed Gannon despite the no ground fighting rule. Majore proprs to Gannon. He won a fight when his competitor had a huge advantage over him.
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Thanks for the info man...this is really a cool fight. It's almost cartoonish, the idea of it all. Kimbo reminds me of Mr.T. Any and all info is much appreciated.
 
Just finished watching this fight (much love NLB).

My thoughts-

It really wasn't superior boxing that won Gannon this fight. No way. It was just pure brawling, with very little defense. Gannon wanted it more, was in better shape cardio wise, and maybe even intimidated Kimbo. Kimbo never really seemed KOed to me in the unconscious sense (although his guys should have stopped the fight earlier). He was just incredibly gassed.

I will say this for Gannon. I think his punching power intimidated Kimbo early on, it may have even dropped him which is why Kimbo grabbed onto his leg. There's also numerous spots where Gannon could have severely fucked up Kimbo with knees if he choose to go that route. Kimbo is lucky it wasn't kickboxing rules, much less MMA.

The guillotine choke was illegal, but fuck...Kimbo tried for a takedown when he went down (off being dropped?), and he attacked Gannon while he was on the floor (something I didn't see Gannon do). Gannon did hit 2 knees, but man if he wanted to earlier on he could have creamed him with knees. I think its just the case of Gannon being bigger, better shape cardio wise, nsand simply resolved to win the fight. I didn't see any shit talking from Kimbo. I bet after he hit Gannon with those shots that tore his face all up he got intimidated when he saw Gannon wasn't backing down. That and fatigue spelled doom for him.

That being said, Kimbo fucked up Gannon pretty badly. I heard Gannon was a six time GG champ. Listen, I didn't fight Kimbo, so I'm not going to talk shit about Gannon. I'll just say that either Kimbo's boxing is much better then it looks, or Gannon isn't as much of a boxer as he claims. Kimbos punching actually looked better to me at some points. To me, it was just two huge guys punching the shit out of eachother with no defense or any real technique.

Regardless, great fight. A bit unnerving how animalistic the crowd was. Props to both guys.
 
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