Further details emerge from Nemesis catastrophe
Two of the fighters who competed at Nemisis Fighting’s MMA Global Invasion have now spoken up telling the story of…
Two of the fighters who competed at Nemisis Fighting’s MMA Global Invasion have now spoken up telling the story of the debacle in the Dominican Republic.
We had a two hour window where we could just show up and weigh in, former TUFcompetitor Eliot Marshall explained. Like we’re sitting in the lobby and they’re explaining this to us and they’re like ‘the official scale will be here at noon, so come on down any time between noon and two and you guys can weigh in.’
The fights are starting late already, so we’re laying there and some of the fighters from the Dominican Republic were rubbing icy hot all over their legs and backs to warm themselves up, said former UFC heavyweight Paul Buentello. So I stand up and am like ‘hey, who’s putting icy hot on?’ The locker room was just reeking of Ben Gay and Icy Hot and Eliot goes ‘who’s cheating?’
The first round of the first fight went eight minutes cause there was no timekeeper, Marshall explained. They realized the round was going on way too long so they threw a towel into the cage.
The timekeeper used his cell phone and the guy I don’t know if he was a security guard or what, he could have been the janitor, he had a cell phone with a timer on it, and he was texting too, while he was watching the time for the fight because the fights were averaging about 5:15, 4:30, 4-minute rounds and even my fight was like 10 seconds short and then 10 seconds over, Buentello revealed.
There’s no doctor. So we’re about to go to the cage and there’s no medical professionals whatsoever to take care of people if something happens, Marshall said.
There was just some dude standing over him putting water on his head till he woke up. My plan was not to stand up too much after I saw that there was no doctor. I was like, you know what, let’s go to the ground.
What was really crazy is when the Puerto Ricans came into the room (about it was learned that the check were no good). It was like a scene from ‘Scarface,’ Buentello said. When I walked into the room, I was pretty pissed, I was ready to grab him by the throat and just start dropping elbows, but right when I walked in, the Puerto Rican guys, these guys were like 4’5″, they come pushing me out of the way and they come in there speaking their language ‘we’re going to kill you right now!’ and before you know it, we had to protect the promoter cause these little guys wanted to kill him. Drag him out to the beach and slice him up. The thing is it was only over a couple thousand dollars, but these guys were pissed.
Everybody thought that if we left that promoter with those Puerto Ricans, we’d come back to like a ‘Scarface’ scene. He’d be chained up in the bathroom with a chainsaw going through his head. Those guys were pissed.
What really pissed off the Puerto Ricans is they brought their cage over from Puerto Rico. I guess one of the promoters paid him some money to bring it over. So they went to go take it down, tear it down and ship it out, and the Coliseum locked the doors on it, ‘no you can’t have it, we’re keeping it until we have our money.’ So that’s the heat of it, that’s what started all of it.”
Everybody complains about a commission, but if we had a commission there we would have had our money there in hand, right when you walked out of that cage, said Buentello.