RIP Kimbo Slice?

[KYSportsWriter]

ESPN hasn't updated and the only stories I'm seeing say he was taken to the hospital.

Here's one link:
Report: Kimbo Slice Dead At 42

 

[dixiehack]

 

[Smallpotatoes]

The guy whom the UFC banned confirmed it.

Kimbo Slice dead at age 42

 

[Gator]

Great, my Facebook feed tomorrow will be flooded with famous Kimbo Slice quotes.

 

[DanOregon]

Anyone heard from Butterbean lately?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Anyone heard from Butterbean lately?

I saw him on Thanksgiving eve at some club fights outside of Boston. Looks about the same.

 

[Chef2]

Heart failure at 42.
You put your body through the hell he put his through, it makes perfect sense.

 

[cjericho]

Heart failure at 42.
You put your body through the hell he put his through, it makes perfect sense.

You mean street fighting or substance abuse?

 

[Chef2]

You mean street fighting or substance abuse?

Yes.

 

[TyWebb]

If I recall correctly, Kimbo was busted for steroids after his last "fight" against a man named Dada 5000.

 

[Stoney]

Best thing about this guy was the packaging. A really cool name, and a physical appearance that perfectly suited the really cool name. Like something Sly Stallone would've conjured up to fight Rocky.

If only he had real fighting skills....

 

[cyclingwriter2]

He will be remembered for his humanitarian efforts and as not a Muslim .

 

[YankeeFan]

Kimbo's dead!

What happened? Another tragic victim of pesticides?

 

[HanSenSE]

Best thing about this guy was the packaging. A really cool name, and a physical appearance that perfectly suited the really cool name. Like something Sly Stallone would've conjured up to fight Rocky.

If only he had real fighting skills....

This. And to think CBS made him the focus of its first MMA card.

 

[CD Boogie]

Guy put MMA on the mainstream map. Remember when he was on the cover of ESPN the Magazine.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Guy put MMA on the mainstream map.

Um, I'm sorry he's dead and all, but this just isn't true at all.

 

[YankeeFan]

Um, I'm sorry he's dead and all, but this just isn't true at all.

Who cares?

 

[User 1019]

People who are interested in the truth.

 

[CD Boogie]

Um, I'm sorry he's dead and all, but this just isn't true at all.

Not at all, huh? ask 100 people on the street if they know who roger Huerta is and then ask them if they know kimbo slice. Huerta was first mms guy on cover of SI and the average person couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Not true at all, that's laughable

 

[MisterCreosote]

How about Chuck Liddell?

Randy Couture?

Tito Ortiz?

Ken Shamrock?

Dan Severn?

Rampage Jackson?

Tank Abbott? Who, coincidentally, was pretty much a white Kimbo Slice 10 years earlier and without YouTube's help?