Open Letter From Brett Rogers and Team Bison

Word.

Give him the fight Mr. Shaw....

this is the mother fucker should be getting hated on NOT KIMBO look at his stupid ass mohawk and paited toe nails fucking fag

this guy is just a kimbo with no hype he fought a bunch of no namers this guy wont sell any seats that what counts! anyone in the UFC would crush this guy.

@Anonymous-I don't really se any Toe Nails in this Photo....but i do see the Mohawk....Maybe he should shave the top of his head an grow out the sides...then grow a huge unkept looking beard, wear some sort of wave cap, and get a gold grill...that is some fashion sense if you ask me....I pick Rogers Via Knocking Kimbo Out cold in the first minute of round 1!!

well said donny g, great letter, step up or step aside kimbo

well said, tasteful. It's good to see this degree of respect and honesty in MMA. No that its rare but just not usually so open and ego-free....

Everything he said about the competition is totally fair. He's been fighting tougher guys and should be able to test himself. He's shown no reason why he shouldn't be put against the toughest guys.

All the money crap just shows him to be a moron. There wouldn't BE as much money if Kimbo wasn't on the card. Kimbo is being way underpaid if you look at how much of the money comes in because of his name. Not just in gate and TV ratings but advertising and such.

Shaw is interested in doing whatever he can to make money. While people will say that he should be trying to put the best fighters in the best fights, well if he goes bankrupt and can't put on any shows then how well is that working out for everyone? He's going to lose millions trying to make his brand successful and he needs to do whatever he can to make it as few millions lost as possible.

How about you get a few million people to tune in and watch you fight because of who you are Mr Rodgers and then bitch about not getting paid your due. Of course that's what he is trying to do by being the man to beat Kimbo. But Shaw isn't going to let that happen. Trust me. If Kimbo gets his ass kicked then we're probably looking at once less fighting orginization to put fights on free TV.

if Elite XC doesn't start putting paydays for their more experienced fighters, they won't be elite for long. fighters put in years of training and financial suffering, usually while working two jobs, to get to a point where they can fight professionally to support a family, and now you got an off the street brawler making huge paydays - that's not going to work out in the end - fighters won't stand for it.

Here's a little info:
Kimbo vs Tank Abbot - Kimbo wins and makes $175,000
Brett Rogers vs James Thompson - Rogers wins by KO in 1st round and makes $4,000

I'm assuming Kimbo got at least the same money to fight James Thompson, its a pity Rogers got only 4K to KO Thompson in the 1st round.

Kimbos is soooo weak in terms of MMA skills. I honestly think they will not put this fight on because Kevin WILL lose it in the first round. By submission, Kimura, done from Half-Guard. Wait no....RNC and Kimbo doesn't tap, he just falls asleep dreaming he could just go back to days of youtube. lol =-)

Props to Rogers!!! Even though I donot particularly care for him. It is about time someone has the balls to step up and SPEAK the truth, or AT LEAST how they feel.

GOod for him saying that he is given harder fights for far less change....and if Kimbo is "the man" then let the up and comers in the organization have a chance at the spotlight.

Good for Bret, saying that.... I liked that he wants Shaw to place SLice against the fighters in THE ELITEXC HW DIVISION that have earned it.

It isnt fair to the other HW in ELite's stable if they are continued to be fed hard fights with LITTLE to be gained, while they continue to feed the ATM(Kimbo) easy fights just to pad his pocketbook. What is sad is that Shaw will continue to look "outside" Elite top bring in cans for Kimbo to look good against, instead of letting the fighters within the HW division sort out a champ and a number 1 contender.

How is that gonna pan out if Shaw wants a HW title by the end of 2008. Kimbo fights horrible competitors OUTSIDE the organization, while the others in ELiteXC HW division fight each other and give each other losses WITHIN the division??? How will that work??? Is it just a given that SLice has to do NOTHING in the stable of ELITEXC's HW fighters and will get to fight for the TITLE???? Just sad!!

This is actually a susprisingly classy to air the Team's greviences and call out Slice. Well done by them.

few ppl commenting get it. sure rogers could probably beat kimbo... that is pretty much obvious to everyone (including non-mma fans).

THE POINT IS, NO ONE CARES ABOUT ROGERS OR WILL WATCH AN EVENT HEADLINED BY HIM.

who is he?? i dont know because i don't care.
*even if you hate kimbo, you will watch the event because you hate him*.

/end thread

I'm a kimbo fan. I like the way he fights and I like his wacky hip hop personality. With that being said I think right now Brett Rogers is the superior fighter.Kimbo needs more training and more fights before he can take on Rogers. Rogers was on the main card so he needs to stop worrying that he makes less money.

Brett please stop being a randy couture.

its all very simple

Kimbo makes Elite way too much money right now to risk a knockout at the hands of rogers

therefore, he will not be fighting rogers anytime soon.

Shaw and Elite will milk Kimbo as long as he is a cash cow (but i do think he lost alot of fans with his crappy performance that night)

I totally agree, brett has shown the ability to be a top contender if not a champion already. I have followed both kimbo and brett since the begining and believe brett to show more honor and skill in the ring than kimbo. I believe kimbo was exposed for what he really is, which is a 1 punch side show act. anybody with minimal ground skills could have put him away on saturday. I hope this fight will happen soon so brett can get the exposure and the dues he is deserved.

Look at all these new faces posting comments.

Maybe Kimbo WAS good for MMA.........

A legitamate organization should be concerned about promoting #1 vs. #2. Unless all that organization cares about is a circus atmosphere. Rogers hits it on the head, why promote #10 if he is just a joke for ratings.

I dont believe that Brett wrote this letter.
Actually, I dont think he could spell letter if you gave him the consonants.

Johnnynuthugger likes Kimbo's "wacky hip hop personality".
Just say you want him to teabag you, wont you?

>so he needs to stop worrying that he makes less money.

I think the right words are "Fuck you bitch!"
Who the fuck are you to tell him that?
He's in the business to make money, not so that some lame brained jerkwad can get his kicks. Like any job, if he feels he can make more elsewhere he will.
But he is one of their top fighters and should be paid as such: based on merit.

And in case you think Im an Elite hater (we can all agree though they are a tier 3 organization, not remotely close to WEC, the british CAGE, DREAM or others that come somewhere after the UFC level), Vanna White did the same thing with Lesnar (who looked freaking good against Mir) and that was one of the reason Sylvia was pissed since Lesnar, with only one previous MMA fight made 2.5 times more than the ex-champ for his fight.
I get that there is also the promotional aspect and visibility issues that certain names bring that are in play but Rogers got only 4,000$ to beat Thompson.
If you dont stand up, they'll keep pulling that stuff.

Kimbo is a fucking joke, period.

That fight was rigged, and ExliteXC will just do like they did in the last Kimbo fight: Rig it to save their posterboy.

fucking embarrassing

sorry rogers you cant fight kimbo, there are two requirements to fight kimbo- bein washed up and having a glass chin

The 'Kimbo bubble' is going to burst very soon, you saw how crap he was against Thompson, my guess is you will see even more in his next fight and by the time the next one comes around no moron will be able to come on any blog and sing his praises........it's now time for Kimbo to crash and burn!!! you cannot stay at the top of MMA when you have no talent and he certainly doesnt have it for the cage...maybe the street yes where he is fighting untrained unskilled fighters who are out of shape...let me say again...it is now time for Kimbo to crash and burn!!!

Elite XC is asking for this kind of trouble by writing checks for Kimbo that he cannot cash. I heard Shaw say on Sirius radio that "Kimbo is on the Mt Rushmore of Elite XC". Really...Mt Rushmore...after 4 professional fights? The problem with Elite XC is that they are focusing on marketable fighters instead of quality fighters. They have a ridiculous opportunity with their CBS contract and should be able to bring in fighters like Fedor and Silva and Arlovsky...but NO, they see the marketing potential in Kimbo and hitch their wagon up to their one trick pony. It doesn't matter if a person has marketing potential, we want to see QUALITY FIGHTS!

They absolutely should give Rogers a shot at fighting Kimbo. For f@cks sake, you still have Kimbo in the main card and people will tune in to watch him get his ass beat. At the very least, Shaw has to have a contingency plan for if something happens to Kimbo. We've seen on UFC 87 how many people are out due to training injuries. What if Kimbo gets injured? Are they going to cancel their next CBS fight? Who's the "other star" in Elite XC? Is Elite XC just the "Kimbo Show"? If so, they are a joke and they won't make it a year.

I'm so sick of Kimbo at this point. I mean, look at how the UFC positions their fighters. They could have coddled their newest marketing tool (Lesnar), but instead put him up against a former heavyweight champion and he got tapped out. Now we get to see Lesnar grow as an MMA fighter and see if he's got the salt to make something of himself. With Elite XC, we're being asked to accept that this guy is a headliner at face value, when all he's got is hype.

Good thing this sh!t is free...

Love it

Years ago early fans may have been impressed with hype and a big name, but now that MMA has errupted into the fastest growing sport in the world, we true fans want great fighters, not hype. KIMBO is nothing but hype. Sure he beat some asses on the internet, but those were just street toughs. KIMBO would probably beat most "regular" guys up, but this is professional MMA, and KIMBO does not have the skills to back all this hype behind him. 3-0. Big deal. The ref had to stop the Thompson fight right when it looked like KIMBO was winning, it was the only way Elite could save its poster boy. Talk about a close call. You know Gary Shaw was shittin bricks up untill that point. He probably gave the ref a bonus for the "stoppage of the night call that saved my organization". Brett Rogers is not the greatest fighter in the world either, but you cannot argue with what he's saying. There is no hype behind him and he is knocking out everyone who they are putting in front of him. Lets test both him and Kimbo, the two big bad ass heavyweights of Elite and see who the best is. Having a poster boy for your organization that cannot back up their hype is going to be worse for Elite in the long run, rather than somone who can actually fight but they feel they cannot market. Make your money now Gary Shaw, and prostitute out KIMBO as much as you can with huge hype and washed up fighters (Bo Cantrel, Tank, Thompson) because all of us can see right through this and we know bullshit when its thrown right in our face. Gary is in this to make money, pure and simple, not to provide fans with great match ups.