Kimbo Slice Net Worth: What was the cause of his death?

Kimbo Slice Net Worth: What was the cause of his death?

Wondering what is Kimbo Slice Net Worth?

Kimbo Slice Net Worth is $500,000.

But! who was Kimbo Slice?

What was his real name?

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Kevin Ferguson nick-named Kimbo Slice was a professional boxer, wrestler, mixed martial arts, and actor. In 2005, at the Freestyle Fighting Academy under Marcos Avellan and David Avellan, he trained in Martial Arts, especially for street boxing.

Kimbo Slice Net Worth: What was the cause of his death?

Let’s have a look on Kimbo Slice Net Worth and his personal life.

Kimbo Slice Net Worth:

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Kimbo Slice at a glance

Early Life:

Kevin Ferguson was born on the 8th of Feb,1974 in Nassau, Bahama to his mother Rosemary Clarke. But later he moved to the United States and grew up there with his brother Devon Ferguson and his sister Renea Ferguson.

He completed his education at Bel-Air Elementary School, Cutler Ridge Middle School, Richmond Heights Middle School, and Miami Palmetto High School. For higher studies, he attended Bethune-Cookman University and the University of Miami, where he studied Criminal Justice.

At the age of 13, he got involved in his first fight with a fellow student while defending his friend.

In 1992, when the Hurrican Andrew [ was a very powerful and destructive category 5 Atlantic Hurrican ], Kimbo’s house in Perrine, Florida was destroyed, so for almost a month, he lived in his Nissan Pathfinder.

Career:

At first, he worked as a bouncer in a strip club, but one day he met his old high-school friend named Mike Imber, who offered Kimbo a job as a limousine driver and bodyguard of RK Netmedia, was known as Reality Kings [ a Miami based adult content production company ].

Because of carrying a concealed weapon, he was charged in 2002. He started his career in an unsanctioned mutual combat street fight in 2003, which was spread throughout the internet.

In one of his fights against Big D, Ferguson gave him a cut on the eye, which led the fans to give him a nickname of “slice”, which became his last name to the already popular childhood name, Kimbo.

This was the starting of Kimbo Slice Net Worth.

Martial Arts Career:

In 2005, at the Freestyle Fighting Academy under Marcos Avellan and David Avellan, he trained in Martial Arts, especially for street boxing, focusing on bare-knuckle techniques, dirty boxing from the Clinch and elbows.

But later he got interested in MMA and made a sanctioned MMA Debut against the former WBO Heavyweight Champion and Olympic gold-medalist boxer Ray Mercer at Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5, in Atlantic City on 23rd of June, 2007.

Ferguson got a victory against Mercer with a guillotine choke at 1:12 into the first round.

His martial arts career contributed much to Kimbo Slice Net Worth.

Elite XC Career: Ferguson signed a deal with Elite XC on November 10, 2007. He fought against Tank Abbott on February 16, 2008, in the main event at EliteXC: Street Certified and won by KO 43 seconds in the first round due to strikes.

His main event fight was shown on prime time network television on May 31, 2008, and he got a controversial win. Kimbo Slice was supposed to fight shamrock at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise on October 4, 2008. But Shamrock got a cut on the left eye, few hours before the fight.

Then a replacement took place, and Kimbo was against Seth Petruzelli. Kimbo was given $500,000 to fight against Petruzelli. Petruzelli defeated Kimbo by TKO 14 seconds into the first round of the bout.

Ultimate Fighting Championship: Kevin Lole of Yahoo.com stated that Kimbo will participate in The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights on June 1. Kimbo Slice was defeated by Roy Nelson by TKO stoppage in the second round.

Kimbo made his pay-per-view and official heavyweight debut at the UFC 113 and lost in the second round by a TKO.

By joining different leagues Kimbo Slice Net Worth started to increase.

Bellator MMA: Kimbo signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator MMA on January 16, 2015, and defeated Ken Shamrock by first-round TKO in his June 19th Debut at Bellator 138. Kimbo faced Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 on February 19, 2016, and Kimbo win an uneventful fight by TKO.

Anabolic Steroid nandrolone in his pre-fight drug test. He got a fine of $2,500. Later it was announced that Kimbo would fight again with James Thompson in April 2016 but Kimbo Died before the fight could ever happen due to Heart Failure.

Boxing Craeer:

Kimbo announced that he want to become a professional boxer in August 2010. He made his official pro boxing debut on August 13, 2011. He won the fight against 39-year-old James Wade at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma via KO.

He on October 15, defeated Tey Bledsoe via KO in the first round and on December 30 defeated Charles Hackmann.

Professoinal Wrestling:

On February 5, 2011, he made his official debut in professional wrestling against former sumo wrestler Shinichi Suzukawa at the Inoki Genome Federation’s “Genome 14” in Fukuoka, Japan.

He got injured during the practice was pulled out of the match.

Other Career:

He made his official acting debut when he played the character of Bludge on Nickelodeon’s 2008 holiday special, Merry Christmas, Drake, and Josh, and even played an inmate named JC in 2009’s fighting film Blood and Bone.

Relationships:

Kimbo Slice married L. Shontae Ferguson in May 1994. He got three children from her RaeChelle, Kevin II, and Kevina. His Children are Kevin Jr.[son], Kevlar[son] and daughter Kassandra, and his step-daughter is Kiara.

He also have two grand sons K3 and Juju[Akieno]. His other grandson Kimbo-Legacy and granddaughter Isis was born after his death. He was also engaged to his long-time girlfriend Antionette Ray.

Death:

He was admitted to the hospital on June 5, 2016, near his home in Coral Springs, Florida. He died because of heart failure on June 6. His Autopsy reveals a mass on his liver.

Kimbo Slice Net Worth & How he Earns:

Kimbo Slice Net Worth is $500,000 and he made all this from his career and through some endorsement deals.

Kimbo was given $500,000 to fight against Petruzelli. Unfortunately, Kimbo died in the year 2016. At the time of his death, Kimbo Slice Net Worth was $500,000.

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