Kimbos Team : "Not Fighting Pudz"

redvexx8 wrote:

I could see Pudz coming out and trying to plant one of those strong leg kicks and Bean just flooring him. But yea Bean is like a turtle or King Hippo once hes on his back its over.

ha ha ha!

i still think Butterbean getting whipped by 50 year old Larry Holmes was one of the funniest things of my lifetime

MMAFighting.com, Esch said:

“I didn’t actually rip him. You know how publicists can kind of blow things out of proportion. With Moosin – I’m a partner with Moosin and there’s five of us – my feeling is that he’s not up to par to fight on our Chicago card. They want to use him because he’s from Poland and Chicago has a big Polish community, but there are other Polish fighters we could use and not have to pay Pudzianowski-style money, since he’s just not up to par for a main event type fight. He’s just not there. He can’t even throw a punch. He throws all arm punches and, yeah, he’s a big strong guy, but he’s not throwing with power.”

“It kind of bugs me. I don’t know if you’ve watched him fight, but he’s just not that good. I’m not trying to bash him, just being honest. I don’t know why they released it, but they asked me and I told them how I felt. He needs to learn how to throw a punch that’s going to knock somebody out, not make them look at him and laugh.”

On the chance of seeing the Polish strongman take on “Kimbo Slice” down the road, Esch said:

“I don’t think that will happen. I’m trying to get somebody other than Pudzianowski, to be honest with you. He’s not the caliber of fighter we need headlining our fight. He’s tough, he’s strong. You can’t argue with that, what with him being the five-time World’s Strongest Man. But he can’t throw a punch. The only way I’d be comfortable with it is if he actually got a serious boxing trainer.”

“He kicks phenomenal. That’s how he broke his foot against Tim Sylvia. He kicks good. His ground game? He can survive. But without some stand-up, I don’t want to see him fight. I don’t feel Moosin needs to promote somebody who’s not exciting to watch.”

Finally, when asked whether he’d like to fight him himself he said:

“Me? I’d love to fight him, but I haven’t heard anything on it. Nobody’s mentioned that to me yet. I’d knock Pudzianowski out. After Tim fought him he looked at me and said, ‘You really want to fight him now, don’t you?’ And yeah, I’d love to fight him. But there’s been nothing about that. I’d knock him out and I don’t think they’d let me fight Pudzianowski. I’ve watched tape on him since we’re promoting him, and standing there with him would be the least of my concerns. I’d knock him out. I don’t know why Tim couldn’t knock him out.”

cause tim has this thing called a gameplan Mr Butterball

we all know you would jsut come out guns blazing on Pudz, Timmeh let Pudz gas and beat him down