Paul Buentello has once again requested to see the power of Kimbo Slice. MMAWeekly Radio had Buentello on as a guest on their show recently, and Buentello stated that people want to see this fight:
“People want to see it," Buentello is quoted as saying in an article on MMAWeekly.com that chronicles the radio appearance. "I think everybody wants to see it. Me and Kimbo should lace up the gloves. Everybody wants to see it and I think it’s time. He’s fighting all the guys I’ve already knocked out and I’ve already exposed. He needs to get off that buffet line I put out there and come over to my Paul Buentello taco shop and see if we can get to work.”
Let me just be the first to say... this is a bad fight for Buentello. He was absolutely crushed by Alistair Overeem, who has been underrated throughout his career in my opinion due to his poor cardio. If there is one thing that you cannot be when you are fighting Kimbo Slice, it's sluggish. That's exactly what Buentello looked like in his last fight. Absolutely sluggish and slow.
Does Buentello stand a chance? After seeing Kimbo's very quick and heavy hands completely batter an overweight and lackluster Tank Abbott, I'm not sure the outcome would be much different for Buentello. I'm not sold on Kimbo as a complete fighter though, and maybe Paul has something up his sleeve. Striking with Kimbo is bad news in anyone's gameplan though, and I believe Paul would make that ill-fated mistake of striking with a grizzly bear.
Buentello, Shamrock, Gannon, and even Rogers are all being thrown into the mix of names that could potentially fight Kimbo. Shamrock is very intriguing in my eyes because of his submission game in past fights. Rogers would be a quality matchup, although I'm not convinced he would try to stay away from Slice's hands. Buentello just doesn't create the buzz that a guy like Shamrock or Gannon could provide. Gannon has beaten Slice in an unregulated fight in one of his videos, but this was all before his intensive training and MMA as a career happened. EliteXC would undoubtedly hype that fight up into the realm of being an epic saga.
Buentello needs to show us that he's ready to compete seriously after being beaten senseless by Overeem. Maybe this is the fight, but this writer doesn't think so.