My introduction to Kimbo Slice was the same as millions of others — in a dirty college apartment, I watched one of his backyard fights on a Dell laptop, downloaded on some Napster-ripoff file sharing service that shortly thereafter destroyed the computer.
My reaction to Kimbo Slice was the same as millions of others: Who is this dude?
Against the odds, we all got the chance to find out. Now, after a bumpy, circuitous, wholly unique road to something resembling mainstream success, Slice — Kevin Ferguson — is dead at 42 in South Florida.