5 MMA Fighters Who Were Pure Evil
<p>What attracts a person to the sport of professional
violence? Sometimes it's the spirit of competition, glory, fame,
or honor, and sometimes people do it because it's a great way to
exorcise your inner demons and get paid at the same time. Here's
a look at five fighters who couldn't leave it in the cage and
committed some heinous atrocities.</p>
<h2>Joe Son</h2>
<p>The saga of Joseph Hyungmin "Joe" Son is one of the most
unique dumpster fires in mixed martial arts. Son developed his
own style of Taekwondo that he dubbed "Joe Son Do" and utilized it
to obtain an impressive 0-4 run as a martial artist with one of
those losses a submission due to terror.</p>
<p>He debuted against Keith Hackney, a kenpo karate fighter,
at UFC 4, a card that still took place under the "anything goes"
umbrella of the time. Son got the fight to the canvas and went
for a guillotine choke. Karate doesn't really translate very well
to ground combat, so Hackney fell back on one of the most
fundamental principles of self-defense as he smashed fist after
fist into the groin of Son.</p>
<p>He was knocked out in a K-1 fight and disappeared from
mixed martial arts for nearly a decade. During the absence he
played a bad guy in a Lorenzo Lamas movie and a side villain in
the first Austin Powers movie. He returned to MMA in 2002 and
lost two fights after attempting to flee and a third after being
dumped on his head.</p>
<p>On May 16, 2008, six years after he retired, he was
arrested for felony vandalism. After 60 days in jail he was
released and placed on probation. Son failed to check in and was
taken back into custody on August 18, 2008. He was forced to
provide a DNA sample as part of the terms of his original plea.</p>
<p>The sample was linked to DNA collected at the scene of a
horrific gang rape on Christmas Eve in 1990. According to details
of the case, he and co-defendent Santiago Lopez Gaitan approached
the victim pretending to be lost. She was then dragged to the
back of the car where she was beaten, threatened, raped,
sodomized, and forcibly penetrated with a firearm. After the
oredeal she was thrown out with her pants tied around her eyes and
Son told her that it was Christmas and her lucky day.</p>
<p>Because the statute of limitations had passed, none of the
numerous sexual offenses stuck, however, prosecutors charged him
with conspiracy to commit torture and murder, crimes that have no
statute of limitations. He was convicted and sentenced to life in
prison. Normally this would be the end of the story, but Son's
comes with a twist. In October 2011 Son was accused of murdering
his cellmate, another convicted sex offender, via a jailyard
beating. It would be his first win inside a cage.</p>
<h2>Jarrod Wyatt</h2>
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<p>On March 21, 2010, Jarrod Wyatt consumed some mushroom tea
while hanging out with his friend and training partner Taylor
Powell and another friend, Justin Davis. Davis left to pick up
his dog and returned to what local district attorney Jon Norte
described as the worst dismemberment of a human body that he had
ever seen in his 27 years of service.</p>
<p>Wyatt was standing in the room naked and covered in blood.
Powell was barely alive with a massive hole in his chest. His
head had been bashed into the bathroom wall several times and he
had marks around his throat from being throttled. Wyatt had taken
a knife and carved out Powell's tongue and heart. The heart and
other internal organs had been thrown into a wood-burning stove.
The coroner's report revealed that Powell was alive while his
organs were being removed and died from the subsequent blood loss.
Wyatt claimed he was convinced that his friend had become
possessed by the devil and that he needed to burn them to stop the
devil.</p>
<p>Wyatt attempted an insanity plea but was found fit to
stand trial. He was sentenced to 50 to life in prison.</p>
<h2>Melvin Costa</h2>
<p>Melvin Costa is an 8-7 professional fighter from
California who mostly competed in KOTC between 2007 and 2014.
He's fairly unremarkable as a middleweight which is probably why
so many of his interviews revolve around the massive Nazi eagle
and swastika tattooed across his chest. Costa also rocks aspider
tattoo on his elbow, a tattoo that has been used to represent
someone who has killed an African American, as well as the words
"I have a small penis" circling his bellybutton.</p>
<p>Costa claims he was frequently incarcerated from age 15
until his last release in 2006. He's the first open white
nationalist to compete in mixed martial arts and will gladly
discuss why he thinks Hitler was mostly right with seemingly
anyone curious enough to ask. Not for the racial stuff though,
just the whole bit about Jews controlling the economy.</p>
<p>Costa further explained his views in an interview with Sam
Caplan. He says he has no animosity to people of other races, he
just simply promotes his own race first and feels the playing
field will be a bit more even once we have a white history month.</p>
<h2>War Machine</h2>
<p>If you pumped roughly 200 pounds of anger issues into a
skinsuit and frequently shot them full of steroids, the result
would be something similar to the man formerly known as Jonathon
Koppenhaver. Koppenhaver legally changed his name to War Machine
and lives the kind of life you would expect from a man with a
giant neck tattoo.</p>
<p>In 2009 War Machine made the transition to porn because
according to friends, if you're sometimes having sex with multiple
women every day, you might as well get paid for it too. Former
porn star Brooke Haven invited him to a party after they shot
together. He was seen slapping his date Alanah Rae in the face
reportedly attempted to drunkenly beat his way through everyone
who attempted to get between him and his car. He was sentenced to
a year in jail and three in probation for separate assaults on a
female bartender and a bouncer at clubs in San Diego in 2010, and
in 2012, he was working as a topless bottle server at a Las Vegas
nightclub where he assaulted a patron.</p>
<p>In 2014, he was involved in a massive manhunt after
allegedly beating his girlfriend, pornstar Christy Mack, to a
nearly unrecognizable state. He showed up at her apartment where
she and her on and off boyfriend were asleep in her bed. He
allowed himself in with a key that he had from their own off and
on relationship and found the two. According to Mack, he forced
her into the shower and went through her twitter and instagram
accounts, hitting her each time he found something he did not
like. She claims he threatened to rape her but was unable to and
sought to end her life with a knife when she escaped.</p>
<p>During trial, War Machine was antagnostic towards
prosecutors, often laughing at the circumstances being described.
At one point he blew a kiss at Chief Deputy District Attorney
Jacqueline Bluth and grinned when reprimanded by the judge. His
defense attempted to argue that because Mack was a pornstar who
also enjoyed rough, consensual sex outside of movies, then somehow
the incident at her apartment was consensual.</p>
<p>War Machine maintains his innocence and that he was acting
in self-defense. He has posted several bizarre strings of tweets
that both acknowledge some basic sense of wrongdoing and a
fundamental lack of the humanity required to process those
actions. War Machine sees himself as the victim and claimed in a
puublished letter sent to a friend that he would have been able to
legally kill both of them in Texas.</p>
<h2>Ricco Rodriguez</h2>
<p>Ricco Rodriguez has a few dubious distinctions in mixed
martial arts. He's the first ultimate fighter to be suspended for
cocaine use, a habit that had him going through an 8-ball per day
during prime use. His drug habit led to domestic charges that
resulted in his one-year old son being taken away by child
protective services, and he infamously appeared on an episode of
Celebrity Rehab.</p>
<p>Rodriguez was also arrested for attacking a cab driver in
2011 and has prior convictions for DUIs, but the biggest check on
his scumbag card is a story involving an incident that occured
while driving high.</p>
<p>Rodriguez was driving with his girlfriend when he smashed
into an 18-wheeler. He was already driving with a suspended
license due to the previously mentioned DUIs, so he did what any
sociopath would. Rodriguez thought his girlfriend died in the
accident and put her body in the driver's seat. And it worked.
Sort of. His girlfriend managed to survive the crash and later
told the real story.</p>
<p>When she came to visit him during Celebrity Rehab,
Rodriquez recounted how one of the staff members didn't find the
story very funny. "Everybody laughs when we tell the story," he
said. "That’s because all your friends are scumbags," his
girlfriend replied.</p>
"I am a brilliant man and it's something that has plagued me for a long time." - Chael Sonnen
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