"He lifted himself up to the international spotlight, and that's what's extraordinary about it," Corben said. He discovered a new audience sitting at computers with a kind of sick and insatiable appetite for violence and Kimbo Slice, despite the course content he produced, led to what Corben calls a "seismic shift" in the media and entertainment industry that opened the door for homemade, viral content. The former strip-club bouncer with menacing, cannonball shoulders, gold teeth and a wild beard parlayed his digital stardom into an MMA career and a ticket out of the hood. ![]() His other backyard and MMA fights and mashups and compilations of them have been viewed by millions more. ![]() This video of Slice paying $100 each to punch regular dudes in the gut in a Miami parking lot ( "Kimbo Slice destroy 2 guys") has been viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube in the last year. Millions watched Slice's bouts and the raw, bloody and NSFW clips turned him into one of the first internet celebrities. Over the last decade, you've been able to find that side of Miami on the internet, in the background of handheld videos of raw backyard and parking lot fights between Slice and a long line of opponents who wound up getting cut, bruised and beaten. And he became an inspiration for people from the rest of, the real Miami, the forgotten kind of hidden Miami that you don't see that often on TV." "He established himself as an inspiration for young people from the real Miami, not from South Beach or Aventura or Bal Harbour, all due respect to people who live in those very beautiful municipalities," Corben said. Raising his fists for the final time! British photographer Zenon Texeira captured moving portraits of former world champion at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 14, 2016.
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