Photo by Vallery Jean/FilmMagic
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). Dada 5000 spent two weeks in the hospital as a result of the contest, suffering from cardiac arrest and kidney failure, along with severe dehydration.
Opinion: Making a Fortune with Freak Shows
Recently, we learned that 43-year-old Floyd
Mayweather Jr., arguably the greatest boxer in the over
140-year modern history of the sport, will be facing Logan Paul in
a pay-per-view exhibition. Paul is a YouTube celebrity with a
legion of prepubescent fans and an 0-1 professional boxing record,
and is best known for filming a corpse in a Japanese forest.
The announcement shouldn t be surprising, coming on the heels of
the insane success of the recent exhibition between Mike Tyson and
Roy Jones Jr. That bout between two men eligible for AARP, with a