Blood Boat: Inside a Florida Fight Club's Quest for the High Seas - RollingStone.com
Two cruises, departing June 3 and June 5. The Bimini SuperFast, three days round-trip, with a stop at a Bimini resort to gamble, to eat crabs or to contract them – the destination wasn't the point, only the departure. In the words of The Simpsons ' Moe Szyslak, explaining the origin of the legendary Tyson vs. Secretariat fight (The Slaughter in the Water), "Once you get 12 miles out, there's no laws at all. Sidebar The boat trips were a solution, created by the BYB: Extreme Fighting Series , a fledgling bare-knuckle fighting federation that started as the brainchild of Dhafir "Dada 5000" Harris. A former corrections officer and employee of the Florida Department of Children and Families, whose story forms the centerpiece of the documentary Dawg Fight , Dada's roughly six-foot, 250-pound frame is paired with a soft, upbeat voice and a... Dada's own motivation came from Kimbo Slice, a brief MMA sensation he had grown up with, who tapped him for a bodyguard gig after seeing him bench press over 600 pounds in his backyard gym. As he says in Dawg Fight , it was on the road that Dada found himself "looking at the mansions. looking at the lifestyle, and I told [Kimbo], 'You know what, dawg. '" But after three fights for Kimbo's camp, he was done with MMA. Source: www.rollingstone.com
