Kimbo Slice is back. The street fighter turned MMA fighter turned boxer is making a return to the MMA in Bellator at the age of 40 (soon to be 41), and will compete in four-ounce gloves for the first time in almost five years at some point in 2015. Slice was a guest on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani today, and spoke with his typical candor about who he’d like to make his debut against (via MMA Fighting):
“I don’t even know who’s there right now (in Bellator) as heavyweights. But s**t, anybody. Just feed me. I’m ready to be fed.”
Sure, okay. When asked specifically about a rematch with Seth Petruzelli, who famously flattened him in EliteXC and spent the last portion of his career with Bellator before recently retiring, Slice (4-2) said he’d be interested in that:
“I’m sure they would. I mean, they should. I mean, I would love to,” Slice said of the idea. “I owe that dude one. The nature of it, I could complain all day long on this and that, but s**t, it just went down the way it went down, but goddamn I owe him one.”
Oh, and there’s another guy he wouldn’t mind facing off with – one Huntington Beach Bad Boy:
“S**t, you know they could put Tito (Ortiz) on that plane, too,” he said. “For sure. I got a bone to pick with that dude, man.
“Ain’t no problem with him yet, but you know, from back in the Strikeforce days, I was handling s**t about him calling me out and talking s**t about me, so yeah, we could definitely put that in the making. He’s gotta have a problem with my hand game.”
I’m not gonna lie, folks – I’d be down for Tito Ortiz vs. Kimbo Slice any day of the week. For his part, Petruzelli has already responded via Twitter and is unsurprisingly interested in the fight:
Hey @KimboSlice so u wanna call me out? im down to come out of retirement to KO u 1 more time. Send me a contract @BellatorMMA @ScottCoker
— Seth Petruzelli (@silverbackseth) January 20, 2015
I’m sure we’ll hear from Tito relatively soon as well.
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