{"id":196080,"date":"2016-06-06T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T02:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=196080"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T03:01:35","slug":"kimbo-slice-tragically-passes-away-age-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kimbo-slice\/kimbo-slice-tragically-passes-away-age-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimbo Slice tragically passes away at age 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>42-year-old Kevin Ferguson, better known as Kimbo Slice passed away late Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2016\/06\/06\/kimbo-slice-hospitalized-in-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brock-lesnar\/video-paul-heyman-talks-ufc-200-with-brock-lesnar\/\">initially reported<\/a> that Ferguson was admitted to a hospital near his home in Coral Springs, Florida on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Billy Corben acknowledged Ferguson&#8217;s death late Monday on twitter. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimboSlice\">@KimboSlice<\/a>: a 305 original, a true fighter, a one-of-a-kind Miami legend <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NTvwDf1uTE\">pic.twitter.com\/NTvwDf1uTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillyCorben\/status\/740008034982756353\">June 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>American Top Team, where Ferguson trained out of also acknowledged the death of the Florida star.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ATT Family and South Florida community lost a legend today. RIP Kimbo. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sjs8ctyJMd\">pic.twitter.com\/sjs8ctyJMd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; American Top Team (@AmericanTopTeam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanTopTeam\/status\/740013805615218692\">June 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson last <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dada-5000\/dada-5000-pronounced-dead-fight-kimbo-slice-bellator-149\/\">fought Dhafir &#8220;Dada 500&#8221; Harris<\/a> at Bellator 149 where he initially beat Harris by TKO in the third round of their fight. However, the fight was later overturned to a no-contest after Ferguson tested <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kimbo-slice\/kimbo-slice-ken-shamrock-test-positive-steroid-shamrock-also-pops-opioid\/\">positive for the steroid nandrolone<\/a>, according to urine test results released by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Kimbo Slice became famous when his backyard fight videos went viral on the Internet, which carried on to his big draw in mixed martial arts where he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ratings-report-kimbo-slice-on-bellator-138-breaks-records\/\">set record numbers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ferguson&#8217;s professional mixed martial arts record was 5-2, having fights under the biggest MMA promotions in the world inlcuding Elite XC, the UFC, and Bellator MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts are with the Ferguson family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42-year-old Kevin Ferguson, better known as Kimbo Slice passed away late Monday. TMZ initially reported that Ferguson was admitted to a hospital near his home in Coral Springs, Florida on Monday. ESPN&#8217;s Billy Corben acknowledged Ferguson&#8217;s death late Monday on twitter. RIP @KimboSlice: a 305 original, a true fighter, a one-of-a-kind Miami legend pic.twitter.com\/NTvwDf1uTE &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":150678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10158],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kimbo Slice tragically passes away at age 42 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kimbo-slice\/kimbo-slice-tragically-passes-away-age-42\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kimbo Slice tragically passes away at age 42 | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"42-year-old Kevin Ferguson, better known as Kimbo Slice passed away late Monday. 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