Slice defeated Mercer with a guillotine choke at 1:12 into the first round. The match was scheduled as a three-round exhibition utilizing all professional rules of MMA combat. Slice made his MMA debut against Mercer at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5, in Atlantic City on June 23, 2007. A month prior to the fight, Slice switched camps and was trained by retired MMA fighter Bas Rutten and boxing instructor Randy Khatami at Rutten's school, EliteMMA, in Thousand Oaks, California. Slice signed to make his MMA debut against former WBO Heavyweight champion and Olympic gold-medalist boxer Ray Mercer at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5, in Atlantic City on June 23, 2007. At first, Slice was training exclusively for street boxing, focusing on bare-knuckle techniques, dirty boxing from the clinch, and elbows - but then he began to develop an interest for MMA. In 2005, Slice started training in martial arts at the Freestyle Fighting Academy under Marcos Avellan and David Avellan. In his first taped fight against a man named Big D, Ferguson left a large cut on his opponent's right eye which led Internet fans to call him Slice, becoming the last name to his already popular childhood nickname, Kimbo. They were distributed through the Internet, mainly through the adult website SublimeDirectory and various other video platforms. In 2002, he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and in 2003, he began his career in unsanctioned mutual combat street fights. Ferguson maintained close ties with Reality Kings throughout the rest of his life company representatives accompanied him, as his fight entourage, under the name Team Kimbo. Early career įerguson started working as a bouncer for a strip club until high school friend and career-long manager, Mike Imber, offered him a job as a limousine driver and bodyguard for RK Netmedia, better known as Reality Kings, a Miami-based pornography production/promotion company responsible for a number of popular adult subscription websites. Slice's cousin is United States judoka Rhadi Ferguson.
In 1997, he had a tryout with the Miami Dolphins and was part of the pre-season squad but was unable to secure a spot on the first team. įor college, Ferguson attended both Bethune-Cookman University and the University of Miami, where he held an athletic scholarship and studied criminal justice. In 1992, his house in Perrine, Florida was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew, forcing him to live in his 1987 Nissan Pathfinder for a month. He attended Miami Palmetto High School, where he was the star middle linebacker. Ferguson continued his studies at Cutler Ridge Middle School and later attended Richmond Heights Middle School. He went to Bel-Air Elementary School, where he was reportedly involved in his first fight with fellow student Dominic Sauer at the age of 13 as he tried to defend a friend. He was raised with his brother Devon and sister Renea by his mother Rosemary Clarke. as a child and grew up in Cutler Ridge, Florida. Kimbo Slice was born Kevin Ferguson in Nassau on February 8, 1974.
“Bas Rutten was old, but he could probably still hurt me,” Griffin laughed. Immediately after wishing he could have spent more time in the gym with them, Griffin also thought about the man who introduced the two and was even more happy with the way he treated Slice. The potential Griffin saw in Slice and his ability to learn left an athlete as humble as the former king of the 205ers wondering if he just discouraged Slice. Not that a former champion, TUF winner, savior of a sport and frontrunner for most likable athlete in MMA history needs the ego boost, but surely rocking a man more famous than YouTube is quite the badge of honor.
After the practice he was like, ‘my f****** head’s still ringing!’” “It was more like a slap kick, but my foot hit his ear and his ear started ringing. “I kicked him in the head, but I kicked him light,” Griffin said.
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