Jorge Masvidal Talks About Having A Fancy Dinner With Kimbo Slice

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Jorge Masvidal spoke about the death of Kimbo Slice and told some stories about the former bareknuckle brawler turned MMA fighter. Here are highlights:

On his own experience bareknuckle brawling against Slice protege “Ray”: “The first time that I fought Ray, you can see it on the video, (Slice) is the unofficial referee. He gives Ray water, he gives me water, before and after the fight. I didn’t even know he was Kimbo’s protege until after the video came out. He was super cool before the fight, and after it he was like, ‘Wow man, I can’t believe you beat that dude, he’s so much bigger than you, and I know that dude’s nasty.’ He was going nuts. He took me out to eat dinner and at the time I was dead broke. He took me to this fancy-ass place and at the time I was like, ‘Damn, this dude’s balling.’ And it was just cool as (expletive). I thought we were going to have to do some thugged-out (expletive), like run out on the bill, but he paid for the whole thing. I was like, ‘Man, this is some crazy (expletive).”

On what Kimbo was really like: “He already had millions of hits on YouTube and stuff – and I was a nobody, I was just some regular dude at the gym training, wanting to fight. And since day one he was cool with me. He would come up to me, ask me questions. Not that I knew more, he knew more, it’s just at the time the amount of notoriety he had already was crazy. He was always such a humble dude. Anybody would come up to him and start chatting him up, and he’d chat you back, spend 15 to 20 minutes. It was a gentleman thing. Especially when he started fighting, it wasn’t like today these social media outlets, when he was trying to get pictures of him doing something nice. He was just a gentleman – like a good dude.”

On looking back at his own time in street fights: “Somebody might see it and think that I’m some type of delinquent – like, ‘Look at this dude, he’s fighting unsanctioned fights’ or whatever you think that is. I see it as part of my life. I grew up fighting, and I didn’t think it was that bad, if you saw the fights, there was no ill will between me and Ray after the fights. It was all love. It was all respect. We got into it. We did our thing. I always thought that nationwide everybody was doing the same thing, like if you got a dispute or something, you fight about it. Or if you want to make a few bucks, you fight about it, you gamble it up. But I don’t think everybody does it as much as Miami now that I’ve been traveling a bit more.”