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The YouTube Brawler Kimbo Slice Tries an M.M.A. Comeback

It seems like an eternity ago in the fast-maturing world of mixed martial arts, but there was a time when a man named Kimbo Slice was the most talked about fighter in the country.

Slice made his reputation in the early 2000s, appearing in unsanctioned street fights that were taped and uploaded to the Internet in the days when seeing a video on your computer still seemed really neat.

His bald head, bushy beard, gold teeth and fearlessness made him instantly recognizable, and he became a cult figure, even appearing on the cover of ESPN the Magazine in 2008.