Baby Slice gets an opponent

in June, personal security expert, backyard brawler, MMA fighter, and professional boxer Kevin ‘Kimbo Slice’ Ferguson passed away tragically young at age 42, from congestive heart failure.

Slice cut an extraordinarily imposing figure, in life and in the sport. His appearance on TUF was the most popular season ever. A leading apparel company at one point was paying him $50,000 per month.

However, Kevin Ferguson’s primary focus was on his family, who live in a gated community in Coral Springs, Florida. He sent his six children to private school, with the intention they go to college. His oldest son, Kevin Ferguson Jr., studied photography for two years at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

However ‘Baby Slice’ has some new goals. He has been training full time in MMA for about two years, and made his amateur MMA debut in March, winning in just 83 seconds, after training for a couple of years.

Now he will turn pro at Bellator 160 in Anaheim, California, on Aug. 26.

“I was always around the fight business and everything, so I saw it and I understood what was going on,” Ferguson told ESPN. “I just knew without a doubt that one day, this was what I wanted to do.”

Ferguson moved to Long Beach, California, two months ago to train under veteran MMA fighter Antonio McKee.

“Antonio just changed the game for me,” said Ferguson. “He understood what I needed, and he understands the science behind it all.”

Now Bellator has selected an opponent – fellow undefeated amateur Jon Tomasian. Tomasian fought twice as an amateur in California, winning once via decision, and once via TKO.

former UFC champion Benson Henderson and former Bellator featherweight champ Patricio Pitbull Freire will fight in the main event.