^^^EXACTLY^^^

More off, here is what Tiki Ghosn, who is one of Kimbo's trainers on TUF, had to say about Kimbo's skills when he got on the show...

"He can punch, we all know he can punch but he doesn’t know anything about MMA. He didn’t know how to sprawl. He didn’t know how to get out of a takedown"

The video also shows footage of Kimbo get pushed around the cage like a tackling sled by Matt Mitrione. Tiki does say that Kimbo got better:

"I think as the season goes along you guys will see some pretty impressive things out of this guy."

Madsen liked Kimbo and admired the guy's desire to get better:

"He obviously knew my wrestling was a lot better," said Madsen, a Division II National Wrestling Champion in 2001. "He approached me and said can you show me stuff?' I was real impressed with his humility. He knows he needs to work on his ground game."

Which brings us back to the point, what did Kimbo do during training with Rutten and Khatami?

It's also interesting to hear Tiki talk about why Rampage made Kimbo his first pick. It doesn't seem like Jackson had winning as his No. 1 goal.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cag...urn=mma,191252


So just as I said, he's been very slack in the gym prior to this, and the last few years of him training haven't been that productive. He's in the big show now, so he's gonna have to work extra hard, as he doesn't have the background that most others do. No wrestling, no BJJ, no formal boxing, etc. Work ethic is the key at this point, because his window of opportunity is closing rapidly at his age.