Yeah, I was there. The first fight happened right in front of us. I got a later description of who the involved parties were but don't remember the names.
Basically some little dude is talking to some big dude in a red shirt. Visualize 150 v 240. Little dude walks away. Big dude follows him across the gym. Big dude takes a swing. 2 little dudes are on his ass, one of them takes his back standing. They both go down. Group piles on. Little dude gets hit while down. Fight is broken up. It wasn't really 20 guys involved. It was like 3 guys, with everyone else trying to stop it.
If there was a second fight I didn't see it. Probably happened during one of our guys matches.
Gustavo and his crew show up and there are like 20 guys on the mats. Scoring table gets flipped but I dont think there was beer there. Nobody was drinking. And that wasn't really a fight. People talking shit as they back up. If any punches were thrown nothing really connected. It would settle down a second and someone else would talk shit. Then more posturing. Gustavo got physically restrained by one of his students because he was about to go off. He was not amused that one of his students got hit while he was down.
The details are a little fuzzy because I was more concerned about the competition than the antics. If they really wanted to fight they would have gone outside and settled it. It was more posturing after the first fight than anything else. And the first fight wasnt much of a fight. I saw the same action back in the 6th grade. And I wouldn't say that half the competitors left. A few did, but mostly it was Gustavos crew, and most of those showed up after the phone call.
Now I have been to Desert Quest before. Its always a small time sorta production. Our team kills everyone, and we grab the team trophy. But Roland also puts on RITC, rage in the cage. We have sent a couple of guys there and supposedly its kinda cool. The lame thing about it is the medals they give out. LOL. For RITC they use the same medals as Desert Quest. Dinky little 2 inch die cast 50cent jobs. What is REALLY funny is after Desert Quest one of the guys who lives there took us to a chinese buffet where we got to admire the team trophy. It was actually a statue of wrestler mayb 3-4inches tall, mouted...well....actually glued to a base from a different trophy. Upon closer inspection it was actually double sided tape! LOL. WTF? It was all broken and floppy. We laughed real good about it.
In short Roland is a cheap motherfucker, his productions are cheap, and from all accounts he is shady. I don't think anyone in the area really respects him as much as they just tolerate him.
