Bellator 149 was supposed to highlight a meeting of streetfight legends. Kevin Ferguson (aka Kimbo Slice), whose backyard fights made him a viral star on YouTube before he capitalized on that fame to start an MMA career—even getting so far as a spot on Season 10 of the Ultimate Fighter, and two bouts in the UFC. And Dhafir Harris (aka Dada 5000), who featured prominently in the 2015 documentary Dawg Fight, highligting the culture of ‘no holds barred’ unsanctioned combat in America.
Instead, the event became something of a tragi-comedy in the MMA world, with both men fighting well past the point of their first round exhaustion into the third—where Kimbo Slice picked up a late TKO (which was later overturned due to a failed drug test).