Rumours have been spreading around the Internet over the past couple of hours that MMA fighter Kimbo Slice has died but according to the man himself, he's not!
Slice took to Twitter on Monday morning to address the rumours which quick spread on the social networking site following the death of a Kevin Ferguson (The true name of Kimbo).
I can remember watching UFC 40 in past years when Tito Ortiz pummeled Shamrock in their first-ever meeting. I hated Ortiz for doing that. Can we call it a kind of being an irrational anger? Absolutely. But I was a Shamrock fan and Ortiz had just beaten my guy. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be the the last time he’d take a beating at the hands of Ortiz.
The losses to Ortiz made it easy to forget that Shamrock was both the first-ever King of Pancrase and the UFC’s first-ever Superfight champion. But the simple truth of the matter is he’s far removed from the time in which he known as the “World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
While nostalgia is fun, the reality is that the 44-year old Shamrock is 0-5 in his last fight bouts and hasn’t won since 2004. His career looked to have hit rock bottom following a first round knockout against heavyweight journeyman Robert “Buzz” Berry this past March during a Cage Rage event. It was a fight set up for Shamrock to win and in losing, it appeared he was all but done.
Flash forward to the present and Shamrock has been handed a golden opportunity to set to things right. Scheduled to face Kimbo Slice in the main event of EliteXC and CBS’ third installment of “Saturday Night Fights” on Oct. 4, Shamrock finds himself with one last shot at redemption.
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