Kimbo Slice
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Nickname
Kimbo Slice
Height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight
234.5 lb (106.4 kg)
Born
February 8, 1974 (1974-02-08) (age 34)
Fighting out of
Miami, Florida
Town of birth
Nassau, Bahamas
Team/Association
Team Kimbo
Fighting style
Boxing, Street fighting
Kimbo Slice Facts:
Ferguson was born on February 8, 1974 in Nassau, Bahamas. Ferguson soon moved to the United States and grew up in Cutler Ridge, Florida, raised alongside his two brothers by a single mother named Rosemary Clarke. He went to Bel-Air Elementary School and when Ferguson was 13 years old, he was involved in his first fight, trying to defend a friend. He continued his studies with Cutler Ridge Middle School and later with Richmond Heights Middle School. He attended Miami Palmetto High School, where he was the star middle linebacker. In 1992, his house in Perrine, Florida was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew and he continued living in his 1987 Nissan Pathfinder for a month.
For college, he attended both Bethune-Cookman University and the University of Miami, where he had an athletic scholarship and studied criminal justice. He was there for only a year and a half. In 1997, he had a tryout with the Miami Dolphins and was part of the pre-season squad, but was unable to get a place in the first team.
Rise to stardom
Ferguson started working as bouncer for a strip club until highschool friend and current manager, Mike "IceyMike" Ember, offered him a job as limousine driver and bodyguard for RK Netmedia, better known as RealityKings, a Miami-based pornography production/promotion company responsible for a number of popular adult subscription websites. Kimbo still maintains close ties with RealityKings who now accompanies him, as his fight entourage, under the name Team Kimbo.
In 2002, he was charged for carrying a concealed weapon and in 2003, he began his career in unsanctioned street fights, earning some very needed money. They were distributed through the Internet, mainly through the adult website SublimeDirectory.net and YouTube. In his first taped fight against a man named Big D, Ferguson left a nasty 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.
His only on-tape street fight loss was against Sean Gannon, a former Boston police officer who also trains in MMA. The popularity of the fight propelled both men into the MMA spotlight.
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