Kimbo Slice Faces Dada 5000, Brings Backyard Brawls to Bellator 149
Kimbo will fight Dada 5000, another former street brawler, at Bellator 149 tonight on SpikeTV. Dada 5000 whose real name is Dhafir Harris, was featured in the Billy Corbin directed Netflix documentary, Dawg Fight. After spending a few years boxing, Kimbo Slice returned to the cage to knock out a 51-year old Ken Shamrock last summer. Now the street fight world has come full circle.
How excited are you, the common sports fan, to see the most high-profile backyard brawl of all-time. And it’s free! The odds that we see fireworks are… well… just look at Harris hitting pads this week.
As far as I know, that was video was not slowed down. This should be something else.
Best of all, there is apparently an absurd amount of action on this fight. An absurdly questionable amount even!
Spoke to manager at LV Sportsbook in Vegas, betting line for Kimbo Slice moved from -360 to pick today.
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) February 19, 2016
According to book manager, 'three to four guys' walked in and bet the limit about 20 times. "Just kept firing on the dog over and over."
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) February 19, 2016
*For a Bellator fight*, LV Sportsbook has taken in "an unheard of amount of money" according to the manager.
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) February 19, 2016
Another round of bets on Dada5000 by same 3/4 individuals at LV Superbook takes the Slice line back to a pick-em right now. Wow.
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) February 19, 2016
That’s right. So either there’s a work coming or there are some people very bad with their money in Las Vegas. OK, I guess that isn’t that far-fetched.
Meanwhile, Kimbo’s former opponent, the now 52-year old Ken Shamrock, will fight 49-year old Royce Gracie in Royce’s first fight since June 2007. No, that is not a typo.
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