Kimbo Slice dead at 42

[jimnyc]

I was shocked to just read this now. He was healthy looking. I wonder what the hell happened? A few too many beatings to the head?

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Kimbo Slice, whose popular street brawling videos on YouTube led to a career in mixed martial arts, died on Monday, his promotion company and team announced. He was 42.

The announcement by Bellator and American Top Team did not give a cause of death.

The Police Department in Coral Springs, Fla., where Slice lived, said it had received word on Monday that he had been taken to nearby Northwest Medical Center.

The police sent officers to his residence because of the news media attention to the case, Sgt. Carla Kmiotek said. But there was no police investigation, she said.

Kimbo Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was a native of the Bahamas.

A former strip-club bouncer and pornography-company bodyguard, Ferguson found his calling in the early 2000s when he earned several thousand dollars fighting in a backyard boxing match in Miami. A friend put a video of the fight on a pornographic website, and millions of people watched it.

Slice went on to become a YouTube sensation, a knockout artist who attracted internet fame for his bare-knuckle brawling and for a video of a man who was paid $100 to take a punch in the stomach from him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/sp...ies-at-42.html

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I was shocked to just read this now. He was healthy looking. I wonder what the hell happened? A few too many beatings to the head?

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Kimbo Slice, whose popular street brawling videos on YouTube led to a career in mixed martial arts, died on Monday, his promotion company and team announced. He was 42.

The announcement by Bellator and American Top Team did not give a cause of death.

The Police Department in Coral Springs, Fla., where Slice lived, said it had received word on Monday that he had been taken to nearby Northwest Medical Center.

The police sent officers to his residence because of the news media attention to the case, Sgt. Carla Kmiotek said. But there was no police investigation, she said.

Kimbo Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was a native of the Bahamas.

A former strip-club bouncer and pornography-company bodyguard, Ferguson found his calling in the early 2000s when he earned several thousand dollars fighting in a backyard boxing match in Miami. A friend put a video of the fight on a pornographic website, and millions of people watched it.

Slice went on to become a YouTube sensation, a knockout artist who attracted internet fame for his bare-knuckle brawling and for a video of a man who was paid $100 to take a punch in the stomach from him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/sp...ies-at-42.html

I have to give him creds, he was one tough SOB..
His MMA record was not THAT great but still street fighting he was damn tough..-Tyr

[Gunny]

I have to give him creds, he was one tough SOB..
His MMA record was not THAT great but still street fighting he was damn tough..-Tyr

He would have been good in the 90s in the MMA when there were no rules. Tank Abbott made a killing and he was nothing more than a thug. Dana White reorganized it because no one would carry them and it was mostly just beatdown brawling. In come the rules. Kimbo came in after the rules. I honestly don't remember him. As a martial artist and a pretty good brawler when need be, I didn't want to watch two guys roll around on the floor and then one with no skills whatsoever win because he's a thug with the IQ of a gnat.

I don't like it now because the promoting lasts longer than the damned fights. Joe Rogan drives me nuts. You're nt supposed to such an obvious mark for your own damned sport. I also don't like watching women fight. Women scare the f*ck out of me if they stare at me. There ain't gonna be no fight.

At any rate, he was a tad bit young to be keeling over. I hope the best for his family.