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This article was posted in the Horror Stories section and I thought I would post it here. It is reporting like this helps distort the publics view on MMA competition and MMA fighters.
It is a very sad story and I feel bad for the girl. But by reading this article, I don't see any reason to associate him with Ultimate Fighting. They tried to make him seem even more brutal than he already was, by distorting the way people reading this article will view MMA. Either the reporter never has seen a MMA competition, or changed it for effect. The fact that he was a training fighter should be enough to show the public that he was capable of beating her nearly to death, but to make the sport almost seem like it contributed in a way by the sheer brutality of the sport is what upsets me.
Cops in Fort Wayne, Indiana say Dustin Pino is a wanna-be ultimate fighter who couldn't make it in the ring, but took out his aggressions on his girlfriend instead. Pino is charged with savagely beating his girlfriend, Emily Gorney on March 8th, 2003. His motive is a mystery, because many of Emily's memories were virtually erased by the many blows to her head. The beating put Emily into a coma for five days.
Girlfriend In Coma For Five Days
All Emily can remember is that Pino was training for a big fight on the "ultimate fighting" Circuit. It is a growing sport with no gloves and few rules. Inside the ropes, anything goes. Emily claims he was taking a lot of steroids at the time to bulk himself up.
Emily's friends say she was about to break up with him, but she has no memory of that. She does remember when his normally-calm demeanor turned into rage. After that, she says, it is all a blank. According to court documents, Pino told a friend he picked Emily up by the neck and hit her head against a wall. Cops say Pino told another friend that he would not let Emily leave and that he tortured and beat her for eight hours. Pino eventually called paramedics. He told them he pushed Emily and she fell and hit her head.
But pictures taken of Emily in the hospital show a different story. Doctors said she suffered bruises all over her body and many serious blows to the head. Paramedics on the scene called police because Emily's injuries were so massive. Pino fled before police arrived.
It is a very sad story and I feel bad for the girl. But by reading this article, I don't see any reason to associate him with Ultimate Fighting. They tried to make him seem even more brutal than he already was, by distorting the way people reading this article will view MMA. Either the reporter never has seen a MMA competition, or changed it for effect. The fact that he was a training fighter should be enough to show the public that he was capable of beating her nearly to death, but to make the sport almost seem like it contributed in a way by the sheer brutality of the sport is what upsets me.