The Kimbo upset is a top story at ESPN.com right now…considering that it took place on a full day of college football with postseason baseball underway that’s pretty amazing…
ESPN’s Kimbo coverage @ ESPN.com
Don’t forget that we’ll have live round by round coverage of EliteXC starting at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern. This card features Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock, Gina Carano vs. Kelly Kobold and Andrei Arlovski vs. Roy Nelson. We’ll have the best live fight narrative in the world on Saturday night–don’t miss it!!
Nice article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the softer side of Kimbo:
Kimbo Slice stayed up all night playing with his kids when he got home Tuesday after 11 weeks of training in California.
The Miami streetfighter-turned-mixed martial arts fighter put the big, bad, mean side on the back burner. The kinder, gentler side came out …
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 …
