MMA Junkie reports that Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson will finally meet Ken Shamrock as part of a Bellator card slated for June 20th at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The show will headline a Spike TV televised main card.
As MMA Junkie points out, the Bellator event will take place on the same day as UFC Fight Night 69 in Berlin. The UFC event looks to be a Fight Pass only card.
Slice signed with Bellator MMA last month. The 41 year old has not fought in MMA since his loss to Matt Mitrone in 2010.
Kimbo Slice-Ken Shamrock was the main event on an EliteXC card on CBS back in 2008. MMA fans may recall that Shamrock was a late scratch and replaced by Seth Petruzelli. Slice was knocked out by Petruzelli in the first round and the reputation of Kimbo took a big hit.
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It will be interesting to see how the Missouri Athletic Commission deals with this fight as Slice is in his 40s and has not fought in 5 years. Shamrock is 51 and although he was scheduled to fight in a bare knuckle match in April, he last had an MMA fight in November 2010. The booking falls in line with Bellator’s “tent pole” events. We saw this last November with Ortiz-Bonnar. It was a ratings success. Slice-Shamrock should provide the same. Slice has been a ratings draw and Bellator is hoping that he still is.
Logical says
The winner of this fight can go ahead and fight the winner of CM Punk vs TBA in the first UFC/Bellator co-promoted event and crown a ‘King of Freakshow’.
Now seriously, will this fight even happen? Shamrock has had quite the difficulty in fulfilling his obligations in the past.
Pink Pig says
Ahahahahahaha!
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d says
Yeah, pretty funny that a sideshow fight like this will literally beat the ratings of every boxing event this year. Haha.
saldathief says
haha the only fight that this will out draw will be any UFC fight bahahha
d says
Saldaqueef
Pink Pig says
This joke will outdraw all UFC events on FS1! Ahahahahahahahahahahahah
LOL
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d says
And it will outdraw EVERY boxing match this year!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Pink Pig says
Mayweather-Pacquiao!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!
d says
Mayweather retires in the fall!!! Boxing hits an iceberg! WOOOOOOOO!
d says
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-mayweather-pacquiao-will-be-boxings-last-superfight-2015-02-27?siteid=yhoof2
Pink Pig says
Canelo-Cotto does 1 million buys! AhahahahahahahHahahahHHh
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Wilder-Klitschko does 1 million buys!!! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
d says
Klitschko? HAHAHAHA!! He doesn’t fight on ppv.
Cotto-Martinez……310k ppv buys. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Boxing’s savior….Adrien Broner! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
saldathief says
Kiltschko sells out in Europe with huge gates and makes millions, The UFC sells? oh wait they sell 5k in Brazil and oh yea maybe Mexico bahahhaah and lose money. The fighters get a reebok towel to wipe the blood up with hahahah Kiltscho alone makes more then the UFC in Europe and Canada haha
saldathief says
mma thread that goes right into a boxing thread hahaha
Pink Pig says
Yep. One Klitschko fight generates more than the UFC makes in all of Europe.
AHahahahahahaahahahaha.
d says
HAHAHA!!! Klitschko???? Euros! Laughable. Huge gates of delusions! The guy can’t even sell a ppv and has to rely on tv contracts and charity purses! Klitschko would never in a million years do what the ufc does in Canada.
Pink Pig says
There is not one UFC fight this year in Canada that will break 10,000 paid attendance. LOL
LMFAO!!!!
Oh Canada!!!
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d says
HAHAHAHAHA!!! She focuses on attendance!!! HAHAHA!!! Not the actual gate!!! Euro gates are a joke!!! They don’t have ppv either!!! HAHAHA!!!!!