Uh oh. It looks like a “celebrity” was caught doing something bad again. Normally when I hear of celebrities crashing their cars, fighting in clubs, or just being stupid, I shrug and chalk it up as another case of someone with too much money and not enough brains. This time the “celebrity” in question is Ultimate Fighter 4 Welterweight Din Thomas.
Thomas was caught holding “illegal fights” at his Port St. Lucie, Florida training facility. While the media is desperately looking for more attempts to liken MMA to dogfighting these days, a spectator has a comment to share with us on TCpalm.com:
I was there that night and there were 2 guys from orlando american top team franchise to compete against the port saint lucie franchise and all the fights were basically exhibitons to get guys used to being in front of crowds and there was a referee watching closely.the police did show up during the second match but they didn’t shut it down and they spoke with Din and let the matches continue.My 16 year old son has just begun training at Mr.Thomas’school and Mr.Thomas has been professional and excellent as a jiu-jitsu instructor and if this was so illegal how come the cops let it continue?? There was no gambling on these exhibition fights either.I’m sure this is another example of going after a guy for no good reason and I SUPPORT DIN THOMAS 100%.
So let’s see here. We have one side telling us that a well known fighter was running “illegal cage fighting matches” in an attempt to make us vision unwilling men being thrown into a cage to fight for their lives. The other side, a spectator at the event, is telling us that there were only training “exhibition matches” to help prepare the fighters for real professional fights.
Either way, Thomas is facing felony charges and the media is going to run for miles with this story.
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