The son of Kimbo Slice, Kevin Ferguson, Jr., continues to follow in his father's footsteps as a fighter. Ferguson, Jr., aka "Baby Slice" will make his professional mixed martial arts debut on August 26 on the preliminary portion of the card for Bellator 160: Henderson vs. Pitbull, set to take place from the Honda Center in Anaheim.
Ferguson, who signed a developmental deal with Bellator in April, will face an opponent to be determined.
The 24-year-old Ferguson has one official amateur fight on his record, a bout he won in July of 2015 via knockout in 83 sconds.
His father also was known as a hard hitter. Kimbo Slice's first claim to fame came through unsanctioned street fights, which went viral on the Internet and made Slice a celebrity. Slice made his MMA debut in 2007, competing on The Ultimate Fighter and later facing Matt Mitrone at UFC 113, in a fight Slice lost by TKO.
Slice signed with Bellator in early 2015 where he compiled a 1-0-1 record. His last fight, the much-maligned bout against Dada 5000 at Bellator 149 on Feb. 19 of this year, was declared a no contest after Slice failed his pre-fight drug test.
Slice died June 6 of congestive heart failure.
Ferguson's teammate at Body Shop Gym, Joey Davis, also will make his pro debut on the Bellator 160 prelims. Davis won four NCAA Division II national wrestling titles at Notre Dame College, completing his career as a collegiate wrestler with a 131-0 record.
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Signed to a developmental deal in April, Ferguson Jr., also known as ?Baby Slice? will anchor the Bellator.com-streamed preliminary card along with Davis, his aforementioned ?Body Shop Gym? teammate. In an eerily similar storyline to the hit-movie ?Creed,? the son of the late, great ?Kimbo Slice,? quietly broke onto the scene earlier this year in an amateur bout that played out in Western Massachusetts, where he scored a knockout victory just 83 seconds into the first round.
By John Moorehouse