Kimbo Slice is seriously being built up into something he's not. He really doesn't have any boxing skills whatsoever. Boxing is something that takes years of practise to perfect and thats why most champion boxers have had atleast 50 amateur fights and spent 5-10 years in the sport even before going pro. There are exceptions to that but generally speaking more amateur fights = better success in pro's. He is in somewhat decent physical shape (at least he's not fat), and he is a bit strong. But his punches are wild, slow, ineffective, and he' got no defense whatsoever. Any semi-decent fighter will expose that. Ive seen better amateur 16 year olds at the local gym than Kimbo. This guy is a youtube and media creation. He should stick to MMA where he atleast had some skills. In boxing, it just won't work out for him at the next level. It's obvious he has no boxing experience and no amateur background. He's equivalent to a street tough guy who just puts on the gloves with no experience, that'll take you to maybe C level in Boxing at the most. He won't make B level, and up till now he's been fighting D level. Seth Mitchell did somewhat alright for a guy with only 10 amateur fights (and 1 or 2 years in Amateurs), but KImbo doesn't even have that experience to draw from.
I will say one thing, his management team (headed by a white man named Gary Shaw) has done an excellent job in building him up. He's received extremely easy fights, and he's been given decent media exposure (served on the undercard to many televised fights), so his management team has given him some advantages. It would be nice to see some white fighters given these advantages. But in the end it won't matter because Kimbo is in for a very bad awakening when he finally does step up.
Maybe his management team is just trying to make him money by not stepping up. It actually looks like their strategy might be to avoid stepping up and just fight on undercards. They probably already know that he won't fare well against decent opposition. At some point, say if he gets to 10-0, they will want to cash him out though.
Looking at his record, Kimbo is now 7-0 (6 KO) as a pro boxer, and he hasn't beaten a single even somewhat noteworthy opponent. That's not that bad considering he's only had 7 fights, but he is age 39, so he should be moving quicker.
Shane Tilyard, despite being grossly out of shape, and already having been knocked out 6 times (many times by debutants or unknown journeymen) managed to have a highly successful first round and actually came close to knocking Kimbo out. In fact, I watched the fight on youtube, and it seemed to me like Tilyard was fatigued and that's why he lost. He ran out of gas. The fight had a high pace and he got tired. If he had been in shape, he would have stopped Kimbo. Prediction: Kimbo is knocked out by the first semi-professional, semi-decent fighter he fights.
I really think the first semi-decent, legit top 200 fighter, journeyman Kimbo fights (say someone like Zack Page) will end up knocking him out. This isn't MMA and anyone can go 7-0 fighting the type of opponents he has till now. He's fought taxi drivers and part time boxers, guys who look like theyve never had any amateur fights and just put on the gloves to make a few hundred dollars then go home.
Maybe he could fight Tye Fields in a "crossroads fight" of sorts! I would put my money on Fields to knock him out, btw. Fields hits harder, is more experienced, and would weather the storm then take Kimbo out.
