Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 Backyard Fights
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Inside the house, Dhafir Harris is on the phone. The hulking 32-year-old is pacing in his mother’s living room, counting the ways in which the day has already gone wrong. He runs a scarred hand through his Mr. T-like Mohawk and sighs.
“Two fighters aren’t going to make it because they’re in jail,” he says into his cell phone. “I don’t know what happened to my video guy either. And I can’t start without the camera rolling.”
Harris, a budding fight promoter, has for weeks looked forward to this Saturday after Thanksgiving. There will be five fights in the back yard in the next few hours. There are no rules and no doctors on hand, meaning there is nothing to keep the ex-cons now standing on the front lawn from seriously maiming, if not killing, each other once they get in the makeshift ring in the back yard.


