It was sometime in the mid-aughts, and Kimbo Slice had not completely become Kimbo Slice yet. Which is to say he wasn't quite the YouTube sensation that eventually made him into one of MMA's biggest ratings draws ever.
Slice was doing his streetfighting thing in Miami and beginning to earn himself some money, whether it was from bets or videos. There was a guy who was out there with him on the streets who kept bugging him to come to a real gym and train. A nearby mixed martial arts gym.
"He was like, 'You should come to the gym and leave this sh*t alone.