Kimbo Slice

By Tommy Messano The early 3.79 million numbers do not take into account the heavyweight main event due to the overrun time of the program. CBS and Strikeforce can also chalk up wins in two key television demographics. Men 18-24 and men 18-34 years of age tuned into CBS Saturday Night Fights more than any other...

By Jesse Holland Considering this card was promoted exclusively around the main event between Brett Rogers and Fedor Emelianenko, it’s not unreasonable to think these numbers could spike for the main event, effectively raising the overall totals like it did for the previous CBS/MMA offering by Elite...

By Michael Rome Fedor Emelianenko:  Fedor is a big winner coming out of the first Strikeforce CBS show.  His previous largest audience in the United States was at just about 100,000 viewers for Affliction.  Close to 5 million viewers watched him knock Brett Rogers out in spectacular fashion in a show buil...

The early ratings are in for CBS's Saturday night MMA show, and although the numbers aren't as good as the network did last year with Kimbo Slice, CBS executive Kelly Kahl tells FanHouse he's encouraged that CBS improved on its usual Saturday night ratings among the coveted young male dem...

By Michael Rome Fast overnight ratings are out for Strikeforce.  The overnights only measure the ratings from 8:00pm to 11:00pm, which means the numbers contained do not include the main event of the show.  The main event started at about 11:02, so the entire main event was in the overrun, which was not mea...

By Todd Jackson Now many years later, another potentially high impact event is upon MMA.  Saturday November 11th, CBS will broadcast live on network television a Strikeforce event featuring one of the most recognized figures in the sport.  Fedor Emelianenko will face off with Brett Rogers live on free T...

By Kris Karkoski Team Rampage’s Marcus Jones became the team’s only fighter to advance to the tournament’s quarterfinals, handing Team Rashad their only loss of the opening round with a quick and impressive armbar submission of Mike Wessel. Click here for more The Ultimate Fighter 10 coverage.

By TLow The more I think about it, the more I can’t see the long term logic in the UFC’s pursuing Kimbo Slice.   The short-term benefit is pretty obvious. This season of TUF has enjoyed some great ratings. That means Spike can command a higher price for advertising slots, and it gives Dana White a large a...

By Barrett Hooper There are currently five weight classes in the UFC. Rich Franklin is not one of them. Neither is Kimbo Slice. Although you’d never know it from the recent trend toward catchweight bouts to accommodate these fighters. Franklin, who has yo-yoed between middleweight and light heavyweight, fo...

By Scott Haber Rumors have been swirling for the past month or so that TUF Season Ten poster-boy Kimbo Slice would make his official UFC debut against knockout artist Houston Alexander in December.  Various reports had the fight taking place at UFC 107 in Memphis, or at the TUF 10 Finale in Las Vegas, and n...

By Staff The Ultimate Fighter 10 is nearing the halfway point, and the teasers for a Kimbo Slice return to the show have finally stopped. One rumor that will not go away is a suspected December match up between the YouTube brawler and UFC veteran Houston Alexander. The latest piece of the puzzle may ha...

By dogbyday honors go a fight with 7.2 million viewers - Kimbo Slice versus James Thompson.  Next goes to bring mixed-martial arts to the casual fan than Kimbo and the UFC?  And... wait a second.  We've happen to mixed-martial arts, not just the UFC.  So next time you're thinking that Kimbo doesn't

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By TIM VREELAND Enter Kevin Ferguson, aka Kimbo Slice. See Kimbo is a man from the streets—once homeless a father trying to support his family. Made famous on YouTube as a bare knuckled brawler then brought into the MMA world via the now-defunct Elite XC.

By Jesse Holland Season 10 of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), as expected, delivered a ratings bonanza when it finally managed to get former YouTube brawler and Elite XC star Kimbo Slice inside the Octagon on episode three. And, as expected, the ratings took a significant hit once Slice was knocked out of the c...

By Jesse Holland On the heels of his Episode 3 elimination from The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) Season 10, special attraction Kimbo Slice reflects on the mistakes he made in his losing effort against Roy Nelson and how a second encounter would yield very different results. Can Slice, who was dropped by trainer...

By Mitch Ciccarelli When YouTube street-fighting sensation Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson burst onto the MMA scene in late 2007 he brought with him a ton of hype and attention from mainstream media. Elite XC promoter Gary Shaw hand-fed the bare-knuckle brawler lower tier opponents such as Bo Cantrell and out...

By Brent Brookhouse Luke Thomas: According to our rankings with USA Today, Nelson is ranked 20th in the world among professional heavyweights. Nelson's talents? He's strong, mostly durable, by Kimbo's standards a phenomenal grappler and has meaningful experience. And Kimbo Slice? He punches really hard....

By Larry Vollmer Millions of YouTube views later, Slice transitioned into mixed martial arts in order to provide for his fiancée and six children. He fought for the now-defunct EliteXC, headlining the first ever mixed martial arts card on broadcast television. He compiled a 3-0 record before losing to Se...

By weoweoweo Pretending to be a friend and getting paid GOOD for my work? Ha ha, OK, lets see here. I couldn’t train him two times a day so I told my buddy at my gym, Randy Khatami, who’s a great boxing coach and also teaches some basic submissions, that I would take him in the morning, and he would take him at ni...

By Kid Nate Another factor is the resurgence of the UFC heavyweight division. With the rise of Brock Lesnar and the crop of new talent coming up in his wake -- Shane Carwin, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos -- the UFC heavies are compelling for the first time in years. The fact that Randy Couture and Fran...

Bas Rutten. In an interview with Fighters Only, former UFC champion and respected MMA trainer Bas Rutten shared exactly how he feels about his former student and The Ultimate Fighter season 10 competitor Kimbo Slice. "I misjudged him, he...

By Mike Fagan It's an opportunity for me to prove myself as a mixed martial artist." - Kimbo Slice, who was announced this week as a contestant on the Ultimate Fighter 10. (Cage Writer) I have to be more disciplined." - Former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski, prior to his bout with Brett Rogers.  Ro...

By Luke Thomas The great irony in watching Dana White six months talk about how Kimbo Slice is bad for MMA is that now he’s Kimbo’s biggest pusher in the business. All the guys who tried to work with Kimbo Slice to make him into something in MMA (I’m looking at you, Bas Rutten) have to be shaking their heads and...

By Kris Karkoski After learning yesterday of the first cast member on The Ultimate Fighter 10, backyard brawler-turned-mixed martial artist Kimbo Slice, MMAjunkie has confirmed that four NFL veterans have been cast for the heavyweights-only season.

By Eric Shapiro Well not quite yet. But according to a chat between Kimbo (Kevin Ferguson) and TheNassauGuardian, the “youtube sensation” is now looking to pursue his first love: professional boxing. As opposed to, you know, that mixed martial arts stuff he was involved with these last few years. Check it...

Kimbo Slice isn't quitting MMA -- it's just that he doesn't love MMA like he loves boxing. Boxing's more his style, after all, since it just involves using your hands, and not getting knocked out by mid-rank fighters with pink hair on national television. In an interview with the Nassau Guar...

By ufc4 Boxing is really my first desire. I have a lot of love for it and believe I can do pretty well. [The sport of] MMA is somewhat of a project for me. Boxing is one dimensional while there are a lot of dimensions in MMA. I don't think it would be a hard transition from MMA to stand-up boxing because of my fi...

Do you remember when Ken Shamrock got cut and was forced to pull out of his EliteXC main event fight against Kimbo Slice? Well, his step-brother Frank Shamrock is now accusing Ken of cutting himself on purpose. From Five...

Filed under: UFCUFC light heavyweight Matt Hamill, who is coming off a second-round TKO win over Reese Andy at UFC 92, answered some questions from FanHouse this week. Via e-mail, we asked him about the UFC 92 fight, his future plans, whether his deafness affects his communication with hi...

By The Lights Out Show  Is it better to be an exciting fighter who doesn’t always win or winning fighter who isn’t very exciting? MMA’s top fighters weigh in.  One of MMA’s best heavyweights, Antonio Silva, says goodbye to the US for good  Kimbo Slice could be making it official - where and when he’ll fight next

By Luke Thomas First, no one is equating this with StandGate (at least I am not). The point about Kimbo is not his last fight's unethical nature, but the promotion as a "street fighter" he received irrespective of his late ignoble stand. It's about what sort of message his presence and stature as a street br...

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with Turi Altavilla, a vice president of EliteXC until the very recent demise of that mixed martial arts company. Turi also was formerly a vice president of the Pride Fighting Championships. In a lengthy interview, we get a rare,...

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman speaks with the legendary mixed martial arts promoter, matchmaker, and commentator, John Perretti. In another lengthy interview, we discuss one of the biggest scandals in U.S. mixed martial arts history, the controversy revolving a...

By Nick Thomas http://www.sportsnet.ca/bios/macdonald_jason/ Saturday night, Kimbo Slice finally got exposed for what most of us knew all along. He was built up by the internet, but he isn't that far along as an MMA fighter. James Thompson exposed him on the ground in his last fight, and Seth Petruzelli f...

By CagE With all the shadiness of the first EliteXC on CBS show still on our minds, it looks like we finally have some proof that EliteXC is influencing its fighters so that its cash cow (Kimbo Slice) doesn’t have to expose the weakness in his ground game. Seth Petruzelli is claiming he was approache...

By ChrisNelson Tony Reali: Kimbo Slice didn't just lose last night - or Saturday night, I should say - he lost in fourteen seconds to a guy he wasn't even supposed to fight. How bad is this for the world of mixed martial beatdowns, Mariotti? Kevin Blackistone: Because, Jay, this is actually a pretty good thi...

By Michael Rome According to Seth Petruzelli, the man who defeated Kimbo Slice on EliteXC's recent CBS offering on October 4th, he was paid to keep the fight standing: The Florida Athletic Commission should conduct an investigation into this as well.

By Mark Chalifoux EliteXC managed to find the only person more fragile than Kimbo Slice’s last opponent, James “Colossus” Thompson, in former MMA fighter Ken Shamrock. The only problem was that Shamrock is so fragile he was injured during the warm-up, thus pitting Kimbo Slice...

By James Iannotti Not like it matters now, but Elite XC fighter Seth Petruzelli talks about the promotion “hinting” to keep his fight against Kimbo Slice this past Saturday night standing rather than to try and take the street brawler to the ground. He ended up ending the fight standing in just 14 seconds. “Th...

By Michael Comeau 1) What the heck is the Florida State Boxing Commission going to do about it? Because shady business practices like this make MMA look a lot like professional wrestling. 2) Is CBS willing to continue working with EliteXC after this weekend's debacle?

By Terry Henson Make no mistake (or listen to the EliteXC spin), this was a disaster for Slice and the company. True, but Kimbo wasn’t defeated by a crafty Brazilian jiu-jitsu master. He wasn’t caught in a submission by an experienced wrestler. He didn’t lose a decision after a three-round brawl.

By Luke Thomas Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson vs. Ken Shamrock Mike Rome: Berto via TKO, round 1. Brent Brookhouse: Borgomeo by submission. Mike Rome: Jackowski via Submission, Round 3. Brent Brookhouse: Cury by submission. Mike Rome: Cury via Submission, Round 2. Chris Nelson: Cury via Submission, Round 1.

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman takes on the world, and discusses the world of combat sports, around the world. Among the many international topics broached in this no holds barred presentation are: the latest news in the case of Swedish Olympic wrestler Ara Abraham...

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By J Wright Most fans saw Kimbo Slice for the first time when he fought Ray Mercer about eight months ago.  He took him out within the beginning of the first round.  Then came Kimbo vs. Thompson, and I will admit I was pretty anxious to see Kimbo fight because I expected it to be a one-hit win since Thompson...

By bfowlkes Other thoughts? I think we could accurately describe this video as a solid idea that needed a little more planning. As much as I like the concept of the MMA community shaming Gary Shaw into putting Kimbo Slice up against quality opponents, just pointing out the obvious about Kimbo and then t...

By Luke Thomas Local Washington, D.C. CBS radio midday talkers "Big O & Dukes" did an interview with James "Colossus" Thompson, and followed up on the issues stemming from his very controversial fight with Kimbo Slice two weeks ago on the CBS Saturday Night Fights "EliteXC: Primetime" event.

That. Was. Awesome! And possibly somewhat staged. Obviously, even to a novice MMA fan such as myself, the point of this primetime broadcast wasn’t to display the kick ass skills of MMA fighters. It was meant to be a circus sideshow in which physical freak and Youtube sensation Kimbo Slice merc...

By Pat For a review of MMA betting sites please view our review of best sportsbooks to place bets on MMA fights. Kimbo Slice vs. James Thompson Sportsbook.com Odds Slice (-600) WON Thompson (+400) We have all seen on You Tube what Kimbo is capable of doing to someone’s face. He’s an intimidating, scar...

By Sam Caplan Kimbo Slice vs. Tank Abbott wasn’t the only big fight to take place in combat sports this past weekend. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that Kelly Pavlik recorded a unanimous decision victory over Jermain Taylor in a non-title match this past Saturday at the MGM Grand in Vegas.