Ucombat’s Mike Stidham convicted of assualt from Strip Club Brawl
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If you haven’t heard, our local MMA promoter Mike Stidham got recently got convicted of felony assault from a fight that happened a while back down at Southern-X-Posure.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50881210-76/stidham-alba-sanchez-defendants.html.csp?page=1
I’ve read a couple of accounts of what went down that night not sure I agree with the verdict. I talked over the whole ordeal with a guy who, while not a personal friend of Mike’s, kind of grew up and the same circles as he did; and I have been illuminated a bit. Mike can be a bit of a rough dude; he’s got some haters, loyalists and speculators out there. Despite what has happened (or imagined to have happened) in the past, in Stidham’s own words, he shouldn’t have been at the strip club in the first place. That being said, I see good case for self defense on Mike’s part.
Maybe I’m wrong and justice was done. Who knows? (Seriously, if you were there at the fight or the court proceedings, pass the knowledge!) I do know, however, that this is a bad thing for MMA in Utah. This isn’t a deathblow to UCE – but nasty speed bump.
Utah has a good pool of mixed martial artists and fans – this is no doubt one of our many growing pains. It just sucks that this has to be one of them.
On the flip side, given enough time we will likely hear a headline like “Utah MMA fighter saves orphanage/kittens/religious leader from house fire/terrorist attack/parking ticket .”
I’m an impatient man, and that day cannot come soon enough.
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