There are a lot of different victims who have made claims against Gus and the gang he used to hang out with. There is a pattern with Gus and his gang. Obviously there are always two sides to each story but Gus has admitted to his crimes and doesn't make any excuses for himself, you shouldn't be making excuses for him either. He owned up to his past, he didn't blame the victims.
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/440592/How-MMA-saved-Alexander-Gustafsson-after-being-jailed-as-a-teenager/
"This is the only interview I am doing about this," said Gustafsson. "I feel like I want to have my say. Then I want to leave it and look forward. This happened when I was a teenager. Today, I am a completely different person.
"As a youth, I always had a lot of energy. And I had no real goals. Thus, I had great parents, great family, but I did not know where I was going with all this energy.
"I ended up in negative ways and it became a destructive behavior.
"I cannot defend it in any way. It is something I am ashamed of. It was..."
Page 10 Alexander admits jumping a man and his girlfriend unknown to him other than that the man was friends with a man who had been in a scoffold with Alexanders friend two years earlier.
http://minfil.org/Ham1ecbeb3/B1057-05.pdf
Sentenced for obstruction of justice (threating and beating the plaintiff) Sentenced for assault against a man and a woman
http://minfil.org/I8m3e4b3bb/B2992-05_B2991-05.pdf
http://minfil.org/Ffmce7b4ba/B3129-06.pdf
There are like 10 people in these sentences that he has beat up.
I'll quote sentence B3129-06, Alexander sentenced for "aggravated assault".
Plaintiff and girlfriend had been at restaurant, meets Alexander with friends afterwards.
Alexander goes up to him and asks:"Have you talked shit with person X?"
In which the plaintiff says No.
According to Alexander his eyes then went dark.
Beats the man to the ground, kicks him in the head while unconscious
Sentence B2992-05
Man with girlfriend leaves clothes by public pier while bathing, Sees Alexander Gustafsson with friends going through their clothes.
Alexander is seen dropping a white package of cigarettes on the ground while the woman's white cigarette package from her clothes is missing. The couple decides to just leave but when they do, the woman says "it's wrong to steal from bathing peoples' clothes".
Alexander then lifts her up and throws her on the wooden pier, when she recovers from the chock she sees Alexander sitting upon her boyfriend head-butting him.