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Ray Mercer Vs Kimbo: Requiem for a Heavyweight, Revisited
By Russ Greenspan-May 29, 2007

On June 23rd, one time WBO Heavyweight Champion Ray Mercer will drive myriad nails into the coffin of his remaining boxing career, when he takes on celebrated street fighter Kimbo Slice in a 3 round MMA rules exhibition bout. Trump Entertainment Resorts is presenting this PPV “contest” in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall as the main event of Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5, and the match (dubbed “Two Worlds – One Cage”) is sanctioned under New Jersey’s unified MMA rules.

According to the kimbo-fights.com website, matchmaker Gary Marino states that “I’m very, very excited.” Marino added, “I’ve been working on trying to get Kimbo a fight for the last year. He’s a great draw, and he’s got a huge following for his fights. Ray Mercer was at the Cage Fury Fighting Championship 3 show and speculated that he’d like to try MMA, and he called me a couple weeks ago asking me to get him a fight. It’s perfect for both guys, for their style and who they are. Kimbo’s a big banger and so is Mercer.”
Interestingly, neither combatant has actually participated in an authentic MMA rules fight, which should clue you in on the type of entertainment fans will be witnessing. I also suppose that that’s why Mercer – Kimbo is an exhibition, and one of many reasons why it’s asinine, preposterous, and as dignified as a Mountain Rivera wrestling match. Of course, Mountain didn’t receive the $50,000 both Kimbo and Mercer will earn for this ludicrous bit of business, with $25,000 more going to the winner, and another $10,000 being awarded for a knockout.