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Technically speaking, I was a fan when UFC 24 rolled around. Kevin Randleman's first UFC heavyweight title defense was set to take place a month before I wrote the story that scored my first paycheck as a mixed martial arts reporter. Passionate as...

In Lingerie ran down even-money favorite Mamma Kimbo and held off the late run of Disposablepleasure to capture Friday's Grade 2, $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.

On Saturday, Kimbo Slice participated in his fourth professional boxing match. The fight took place in Springfield, Mo., where one of the world's most trafficked Bass Pro Shops sits gloriously in the heart of the city. I mention this only to poin...

Heading into its network debut on its 18th birthday, guessing games as to how the UFC would fare tended toward the optimistic. Numbers like 8 million were very casually discussed (if loosely grasped). The 2008 Kimbo Slice/James Thompson high point nu...

Heavyweight Kevin Ferguson, who is more commonly known as Kimbo Slice, improved to 2-0 as a professional boxer Saturday night with a first-round knockout of Ray Bledsoe in Grand Island, Neb.

To a man, they all made a point to thank Ken Hershman. From Gary Shaw to Scott Coker, from the wild days of Kimbo Slice and EliteXC to the rise and fall of Strikeforce, if it wasn't for Showtime's executive vice president and general manager of sp...

In the wake of his lopsided loss to Jon Jones at UFC 135, Quinton Jackson made some rather odd declarations to ESPN's Gareth Davies. Among them, that he might well "go to boxing" in an effort to make some money and find an opponent who won't "fight ...

Former bare-knuckle street fighter Kevin Ferguson, who is best known as Kimbo Slice, will make his second professional boxing appearance Oct. 15 in Grand Island, Neb.

The first UFC bout on network television is expected to surpass the record 6.51 million viewers who watched Kimbo Slice defeat James Thompson on CBS in May 2008. But whether 10 or 10 million tune in Nov. 12 to see Cain Velasquez defend his UFC heavyw...

Abner Mares might have deserved the bantamweight title he was awarded after Saturday's fight with Joseph Agbeko, but because of one of the worst big-fight performances by a ref in recent memory, we'll never know.

You have to hand it to Kimbo Slice. In the recent history of professional sports, you'd be hard-pressed to find another athlete who has done so much with so little. Anybody who follows the fight game knows I absolutely mean that as a compliment....

Kimbo Slice, the internet fighting sensation who rose to prominence in MMA, is making the jump to the boxing ring.

Strikeforce MMA fighter Brett Rogers sees broader picture with adjusted approach

Ray Edwards admitted he was nervous for his pro boxing debut Friday night. But after an uneven but unanimous victory Friday night over T.J. Gibson, Edwards was hardly humbled. Appearing Monday morning on ESPN's "First Take," Edwards said he would ...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Not long after the Chicago Bears drafted Oregon State defensive tackle Stephen Paea, one of his new teammates reached out to him. Defensive tackle Matt Toeaina, who like Paea is of Polynesian descent, called to welco...

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