Unregulated bout pits seasoned kickboxer vs. man with mental disabilities
This shit is just sick and needs to be regulated if not banned entirely.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/unregulated-bout-pits-seasoned-kickboxer-vs-man-with-mental-disabilities-b99403625z1-285383171.html
Jesse Rowell had more than a decade of experience as a combat trainer and fighter — and four wrestling championships to his credit — when he stepped into the ring for a kickboxing match at a Harley-Davidson dealership in Milwaukee last month. His opponent in the final bout was hardly a challenge.
He fought Jessie Roach, 31, who suffers from mental illness and, according to his family, has the intellectual capacity of a young grade-schooler.
Roach receives federal disability payments, has great difficulty reading because of dyslexia and said he doesn't know what a waiver is, though he remembers signing something before the fight. He trained in a garage with a friend and was expecting to be in a wrestling match. He didn't find out he was kickboxing until hours earlier. It was his first such bout.
Rowell, 36, an established fight promoter and gym owner, knocked Roach out in 47 seconds with a kick to the head as hundreds of fans cheered at the Milwaukee Harley-Davidson dealership, where motorcycles were cleared out to make room for a ring.
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