Dada 5000 implies he was poisoned before Kimbo fight

Kimbo Slice might not be the only fighter whose performance was influenced by suspicious substances at Bellator 149.

Slice's opponent that night, Dhafir "Dada 5000" Harris suggested someone may have tampered with his water before the fight, in an interview with MMA Fighting's Marc Raimondi

Harris went on to lose an ugly fight by third-round TKO and he was immediately taken to hospital as a result of his heart and kidney shutting down. Many criticized Harris and the Bellator MMA organization for the debacle, but Harris insists there were forces beyond his control that contributed to his downfall.

"A lot of people may think I was not in shape. But no, being in shape had nothing to do with it. This s--t was bigger than being in or out of shape," Harris said. "These guys were looking to take me out at all costs. The inflammation that I'm going to submit is documented. Don't take my word for it. It's documented. And when Kimbo Slice feels like s--t or anybody that's involved, they're going to know Dada 5000 took this seriously.

"They try to say, 'Hey, he took the fight too soon. He cut weight too fast.' You know, man. I was cleared by all the medical doctors. Don't try to throw that out there as scapegoat because I don't need it. I was cleared and ready to fight. I felt great up until the time I started taking and drinking that water out of the back dressing room. I'm telling you guys this."

Harris explained he felt inexplicably weak during the bout, which he denied was due to a lack of preparation or a difficult weight cut. His doubts over the legitimacy of the bout only increased after hearing the news that Slice tested positive for steroids afterwards.

"I was telling people earlier that that dude is a dirty guy. That they don't play fair. That they had my fight put in but they said that they did not have it, and they posted clips of me getting hit to make me look bad," Harris said. "But I'm like, 'Okay, it's a fight. You're going to get hit.' We all know that. But it's not how hard you get hit, it's what you do after you get hit that matters.

"I'm a true warrior at the door. So at the end of the day ... I can say that the water is not clean. This situation goes deeper than the steroids. When the truth comes out in a second, it's going to show that this dude could not have beat me even though he was on steroids, and I was compromised."