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