I grew up fighting, and I didn’t think it was that bad, if you saw the fights, there was no ill will between me and Ray after the fights. “Somebody might see it and think that I’m some type of delinquent – like, ‘Look at this dude, he’s fighting unsanctioned fights’ or whatever you think that is,” Masvidal said. It’s with seemingly neither shame nor pride that Masvidal looks back on his own street fighting days. He was just a gentleman – like a good dude.” Especially when he started fighting, it wasn’t like today these social media outlets, when he was trying to get pictures of him doing something nice. Anybody would come up to him and start chatting him up, and he’d chat you back, spend 15 to 20 minutes. Not that I knew more, he knew more, it’s just at the time the amount of notoriety he had already was crazy. He would come up to me, ask me questions. “He already had millions of hits on YouTube and stuff – and I was a nobody, I was just some regular dude at the gym training, wanting to fight,” Masvidal said.
Like most people who’d ever come in contact with Slice, Masvidal remembers the fellow fighter as a nice, thoughtful guy who in no way lived up to the “bad guy” image that the unsuspecting fan might get from the look of his larger-than-life persona. Video: Bellator, UFC fighters remember Kimbo Slice, 'a damn good dude who cared about his kids' I was like, ‘Man, this is some crazy (expletive).” I thought we were going to have to do some thugged-out (expletive), like run out on the bill, but he paid for the whole thing. He took me to this fancy-ass place and at the time I was like, ‘Damn, this dude’s balling.’ And it was just cool as (expletive). He took me out to eat dinner and at the time I was dead broke. He was super cool before the fight, and after it he was like, ‘Wow man, I can’t believe you beat that dude, he’s so much bigger than you, and I know that dude’s nasty.’ I didn’t even know he was Kimbo’s protege until after the video came out. “He gives Ray water, he gives me water, before and after the fight. “The first time that I fought Ray, you can see it on the video, (Slice) is the unofficial referee,” Masvidal recalled. In an interview with MMAjunkie Radio, Masvidal looked back on his initial encounters with a courteous Slice – which involved a surprisingly fancy dinner experience. In spite of having had “plenty” of those encounters, Masvidal has only been caught fighting one opponent on camera: Slice’s then-protege, known only as “Ray,” who Masvidal faced and defeated on two different occasions. Like Slice, who notably rose to stardom due to street fighting videos, Masvidal also dabbed on Miami’s bareknuckled brawling scene. One of the fighters directly affected by the news was UFC welterweight Jorge Masvidal, whose connections to Slice extended beyond their common American Top Team training grounds. The news of 42-year-old Kevin “ Kimbo Slice” Ferguson’s unexpected death earlier this month has been lamented throughout a shocked MMA community since.
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