Fights Between Two Criminals or Certifiably Crazy Guys

[mkt]

Alexander Emelianenko vs. Datsik (technically a boxing match but close enough...both served time in Russian prisons)

Bobby Hoffman (prison time for beating his wife and generally crazy) vs. Aaron Brink (porn star whose son shot up a nightclub)

Aaron Brink vs. Dan Quinn (look up Quinn's Youtube videos if you must)

Almost ... Phil Baroni vs. Lee Murray (both in foreign prisons. Fight scheduled for Cage Rage but Murray had to pull out due to being stabbed at a party and almost dying).

I'm sure there are others. Travis Fulton must have fought another criminal or two in his 320 fights.

An honorable mention is the guy in my AV (Jon Hess) vs. Andy Anderson. I don't know if Hess got into trouble outside the cage, but he still holds the record fine in the UFC ($20,000) for eye gouging/ranking. His opponent Andy Anderson is serving time for drugs/money laundering which happened after they fought. Some say Andy was innocent.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/railroaded-to-serve-30-years/

I once did a thread on all the guys Arlovski fought who were crazy (Brett Rogers, Datsik, Aaron Brink, Roman Zentsov, etc.) or had tragic deaths (Rumble, Justin Eliers). Maybe we can add Youtube influencers to that list.

 

[oldschoolmmafan]

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Jon Jones vs Chael Sonnen

 

[mkt]

Jon Jones vs Chael Sonnen

Depending how picky we are there are a lot of possbilities:
Mayhem vs. Chael (both have had legal troubles, especially Mayhem)
Kimbo vs. Tank (pretty sure both had run-ins with the law before they started fighting)
etc.

But I was limiting it to the really extreme cases.

 

[Ares Black]

Chase Hooper vs Jordan Leavitt

 

[mkt]

Boxing, but still a good one. Also, Tyson vs. Trevor Berbick.

 

[Deathmask]

Charles Bennett vs Bobby Green (KOTC).

 

[Thy]

Bumfights - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

I only know of the fights where both guys are currently involved in custody battles.

Youre my boy, Anik!

 

[mkt]

Charles Bennett vs Bobby Green (KOTC).

I didn't know "King" Green was imprisoned for 90 days when he was younger. Good one. I thought about War Machine vs. Roger Huerta, but Huerta was more of a head case who mentally defeated himself than a criminal or certified loon.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Every time Sean Strickland and Chris Curtis spar at Xtreme Couture

 

[Deathmask]

I didn't know "King" Green was imprisoned for 90 days when he was younger. Good one. I thought about War Machine vs. Roger Huerta, but Huerta was more of a head case who mentally defeated himself than a criminal or certified loon.

I didn't know if it counted because only Green is in the UFC, but figured it'd be more of an obscure one and at least half counts lol.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

The MMA casuals aren't ready for Felony Fights in a cage. But I am. If we had HW violence like that instead of two fat dudes sucking each other off all of the time, I'd probably pay $79.99 + tax for that

 

[swarrrm]

Pretty much every KOTS fight. Here's British Masvidal getting piece of his ear bitten off

 

[whocares]

Tony Ferguson vs. the guy in his walls. This is an all timer, it will never end until they both die

Also Oliver Mccall vs. idk some other crazy bastard

 

[BroScienceTalkatWork]

Who dat midget MW who got locked up? The Russian boxer..

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Phil Baroni vs Amar Suloev

Jeremy Stephens vs Melvin Guillard

Lavar Johnson vs Ryan Martinez

Derrick Lewis vs Ryan Martinez

Tim Means vs Mike Perry

Jorge Masvidal vs Darren Till

Rob Emerson vs Charles Bennett

Lyle Beerbohm vs Gerald Strebendt

Mike Whitehead vs Travis Fulton

Kimo vs Pat Smith

Tank Abbott vs Kimbo

there is most definitely way more. i mean, combat sports is pretty much filled with crazy people, criminals, crazy criminals, criminal crazies and any other kind of mixture of those things you can think of.

 

[Elvis.]

Bj Penn vs Diego Sanchez
Bj hadn’t slipped fully into mental illness ( sadly) but he was always pretty wild trying to fight people that were way bigger than him , and Diego was always a few bricks shy of a full load

 

[swarrrm]

Tony Ferguson vs. the guy in his walls. This is an all timer, it will never end until they both die

Also Oliver Mccall vs. idk some other crazy bastard

Colby's funniest line was probably when he asked Tony if he still had ghosts in his walls.

 

[Deathmask]

- Tank vs Kimo (Kimbo has been mentioned already)
- Tank vs Cabbage
- Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson