There was something about Kimbo Slice he could feel right away, Jared Shaw said. Something different about the man, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, that separated him from everyone else.
That feeling was enough for Shaw and other then-EliteXC executives to travel to Miami with a "hefty briefcase full of cash" in an effort to make Kimbo Slice the promotion's main headliner.
Shaw told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour that he knew Slice would be able to transcend MMA right then and there.
"Honestly, yes," the former EliteXC vice president said.