Kimbo Slice to enter boxing...

[Coolhand68]

Originally Posted by Percentage

No offense but i'll rather take the opinion of a proven ex-champ over an armchair analyst like you. Kimbo may not have the technical skills as the pros...but he can definitely give them a run for their money. All he needs is a strong training camp and he must stay FOCUSED!

Armchair analyst? I've been a registered boxing coach with USA boxing for over a decade, and I've been training amateur boxers for about 18 years, so I'm not exactly talking out of my ass, but thanks for talking out of yours without even knowing my credentials. But you can keep taking the word of a guy who doesn't know when it's time to hang up the gloves. No disrespect to Roy Jones, he was one of my all time favorite fighters in his prime, but that alone doesn't make him the last word on boxing and neither does my coaching background.

As I said earlier, it's been a year and half since he was supposed to start boxing, haven't heard a peep since. I doubt we ever will. A boxing ring is no place for Kimbo, he'd be destroyed by any of the top ten HW's in the division today, and this is arguably one of the weakest HW era's in history.

[Rggr]

Kimbo might win a couple of set up fights to draw some attention, but there is no way he would do well with the top fighters. People at the top of the sport have been training daily since an early age. They naturally move and react the way Kimbo would be trying to learn to move.

You see this kind of question come up in a lot of sports - could a top college team beat a pro team. I think that people completely underestimate the performance level, and training required to achieve it, of those at the top of a sport.