Will be Ken Shamrock…
Kimbo/Shamrock @ EliteXC.com

Kimbo is in a Nike TV commercial with Ladanian Tomlinson:

Muchas gracias to FightTicker.com for pointing this out to us…

EliteXC on CBS returns 10/4/08 with Kimbo Slice headlining from his home turf of Miami, FL.

Ringside Report has an article suggesting that 7 foot tall former heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev could be the Kimbo Slice of boxing:
Right now, Valuev has a record of 48-1, 34 KO’s, and will fight for the WBA Title, most likely against Ruiz in a rematch, as soon as possible. Should Valuev win, and I think …

Jeff Monson, who’s one of our favorite fighters here at SavSci, is the latest in the long line of challengers for Kimbo Slice. ‘The Snowman’ calls out Kimbo in a YouTube video. The chances that EliteXC would let Kimbo anywhere near Monson are slim and none–he’s a 5′9″ human bulldozer who’d have Kimbo …

Brett Rogers called out Kimbo Slice following his decisive KO win over newly shorn Jon Murphy at the EliteXC CBS show and now it looks like he might get his wish. EliteXC Prez Gary Shaw has suggested that the fight is ‘highly likely’ for October…

The Miami Herald typically does a good job covering both sweet and savage sciences (that would be boxing and MMA respectively for those of you scoring at home) and today they make what early fight journalist Jonathan Swift once called a ‘modest proposal’:
Kimbo should quit MMA and cross over to boxing
Although he looked vulnerable on …

Not surprisingly, Dana White has been all over the airwaves today trying to spin the EliteXC debut to Zuffa’s advantage. Here’s a quote from The Canadian Press:
“Back when we were hurting, when we were bleeding millions of dollars, it would have been pretty easy to put a freak show on and go out and …

More appropriately, to the surprise of no one, they won’t allow Kimbo Slice to wear anything plugging his sponsors at the “Reality Kings” porno website. Instead, Kimbo will wear a thermal with the image of Angela Lansbury from the long running CBS series “Murder She Wrote”. CBS also nixed his first choice of …

The latest issue of ESPN: The Magazine hits newsstands today featuring a cover story on Kimbo Slice:
Kimbo’s ESPN mag cover
Look past his bald head, unruly beard, gold teeth and inked-up muscles on top of muscles. Look past the fearlessness that evokes fear in so many people, and you will find that MMA star Kimbo Slice …