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Slice went 1-1 in the UFC after the reality show, including a bad loss Saturday night at UFC 113 against Matt Mitrione. The fight was so one-sided, the UFC president decided to give Kimbo, 36, his pink slip.
"That's probably Kimbo's last fight in the UFC," White said. "Listen, Kimbo made it farther than I thought he would."
As White was exiting the press conference for a postfight television interview, he was asked one more time about Kimbo's future. A reporter pushed him on the "probably" in his original Kimbo quote. White then confirmed definitively that Slice was gone.
Unlike some cases where other high-profile fighters were sent packing, White sounded genuinely disappointed to fire him.
"I didn't know Kimbo, I just knew what I saw," White said of his previous pro MMA fights and his work on YouTube. "The first time I ever met him I said, 'This is going to be an interesting meeting with the [expletive] I've said about him over the years.'"
When Slice was the centerpiece of CBS's EliteXC promotion, his status drove White nuts. He , saying the only way he'd make it to the UFC was to take part in the UFC's prospect show on Spike. That was a bitter pill to swallow for a guy who had earned between $250,000-$500,000 in each of four EliteXC fights.
Slice and his handlers were not combative. They just wanted the fighter to get a chance at legitimacy.
"He came in. He couldn't be a nicer guy. He took things serious, trained and went after it," White said. "His first fight wasn't the YouTube fights you saw. He won that fight [against Houston Alexander on the TUF 10 finale]. He deserved another fight in the UFC and he lost. Got nothing but respect for Kimbo and I like him as a person. And I think he's carried himself really well."
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/ca...the-UFC-is-over-White-cuts-him?urn=mma,239667
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