Remember Pee Wee Herman?
Well, there’s more than one believe it or not. And this guy is a lot bigger and hits a lot harder. His name is Pee Wee Herman too, but he’s an Elite XC heavyweight contender and he’s undefeated.
Dave “Pee Wee” Herman (10-0) will fight MMA journeyman Ron “H2O” Waterman (15-5-2) in a fight that will round out the main card for Elite XC’s June 14 event in Honolulu, Hawaii.
I mentioned in the Feijao and Cole fight announcement how impressed I was with Feijao while watching him live at “Street Certified” in Miami, Fla.. Well, I was equally as impressed — if not more — with Herman that night.
Pee Wee was fighting Mario Rinaldi, who is this short, but a huge wrecking ball of a man. Rinaldi immediately shot in on Herman for the single leg takedown, but Herman stood his ground … on one leg, and commenced to pounding the living daylights out of Rinaldi’s face.
It was unbelievable — Rinaldi held on to Herman’s leg for dear life while Pee Wee continued to unload on his face for the entire five minutes of round one. Eventually, in the third round the punishment took its toll on Rinaldi and he went down.
If there is anything negative that could be said about Dave Herman’s performance that night, it’s that he was completely gassed out by the end of the fight, but in my opinion, any heavyweight would have been after throwing non stop punches for 10 straight minutes.
Also, I’m not sure if the fight wasn’t over sooner because Herman didn’t have the power to finish, or if Rinaldi just had the world’s hardest head, but being there in person, I’d have to lean toward the latter.
Either way, it should be exciting to see Pee Wee Herman fight again.
His opponent this time around is much more experienced and seasoned, however. Waterman is not a guy who is just going to sit there and let you hit him. This is one powerful human being — he has muscles the Governator (Arnold) hasn’t even heard of.
Besides his obvious strength, Waterman has a wealth of MMA experience. He’s fought in the UFC, Pride, and Pancrase. And he’s taken on some of the best in the heavyweight division, including Mirko Cro Cop (loss), Ricco Rodriguez (win and loss), Kevin Randelman (win), and Roger Gracie (loss) among others.
This is a bit of a step up in competition for Pee Wee Herman (can’t say that enough) and it will be very interesting to see how he does. Perhaps a solid performance will mean a possible future showdown with Elite XC star Kimbo Slice.
Time will tell.
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I remember Waterman beating the piss out of Rinaldi on the Rizzo-Monson card.
I think it will be a case of Waterman’s cardio failing him and him succumbing to a 2nd round TKO.
I hope Elite XC goes out of business and it leaves that loser Kimbo…jobless. Then maybe he will grow a set of balls and come back up all the shit talk he has been doing! COME GET SOME KIMBO! Im sure chuck will be waiting!
You hope EliteXC goes out of business? what about all the great fighters including the UFC veterans Nick Diaz, Robbie Lawler, Scott Smith, Frank Shamrock and you want them to be jobless? Man that sounds pretty messed up to say that. Get over this UFC vs EliteXC bullshit.
It’s cool to have the legendary old school Ron Waterman fighting in the EliteXC. He’s all muscles and packs a punch, one hell of fighter. I like to see him take on Kimbo that would be an awesome match.
I really hope that Waterman is Kimbo’s next opponent. Waterman has some solid submission wrestling, and it would be really interesting to see how Kimbo does against someone who isnt primarily a striker.
When I think about the “H20 man” I think of Cro Cop kicking his nose in at PRIDE: Inferno!
Hopefully Pee Wee don’t whip out his Wee Wee in this fight…
Elite XC is a joke as far as MMA is concerned and Kimbo Slice is no more than an insult to the concept of Mixed ‘Martial Arts’
That guy is not an MMA fighter and a so-so guy like Seth P. proved that when he was thrown in without Kimbo/Elite having the luxury of matching up another MMA-less brawler.
14 second knock-out – predictable
I don’t want to be a UFC elitist, it’s just that these other organizations and promotions are soooo lame.
When CBS tries to act like a source of reliable MMA, it’s time to say “there goes a sport that was cool before mainstream media saw the $$ available if they act like they have a clue”