Texas MMA Fighter Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
by Anthony Pace on Sep 6, 2010 5:26 PM EDT
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Police are investigating what they're calling a murder-suicide this Labor Day holiday.
Kenneth Bryan Trevino, 26, and his girlfriend - 23-year-old Tiffanie Perry - were found dead Sunday night.
Police were called to the 9900 block of McNeil and 2222 around 11 p.m. Sunday night. Police say they received a call from a family member or friend of Trevino's living outside of Austin who warned them Trevino might be suicidal.
The caller said Trevino was despondent over a recent breakup with his girlfriend, Perry.
When officers arrived at Trevino's home at the Alexan Ribelin Ranch Apartment Complex, they found them dead.
Both bodies had obvious signs of trauma.
Trevino was an MMA Fighter .
Obviously, the greater issue here is the tragedy for both families involved. We send them our condolences and hope that they find peace in the matter. But it's tough to brush off these things in the context of the sport when powerful people are looking for anything to help them in their crusade against MMA.
The headline on Huffington Post's front page reads: "MMA Fighter Suspected of Brutal Murder-Suicide". Trevino had a professional record of 5-2 on regional cards, but this story will continue on as a part of the larger narrative against MMA in general.
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I'm glad they made sure to mention he was an MMA fighter
Because that’s pretty relevant to the story. I’m sure there’s a word in the journalism world for this, but what does one call this type of reporting Matt?
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I think people’s professions are generally mentioned in stories like this. I think it’s one of those instances where it stands out more because you’re looking for it, ya know? And even thought we haven’t heard of this guy, maybe he had a name in that area. And even if not, combat sports are violent and this is a violent act. It’d be like not mentioning Chris Benoit was a professional wrestler when his whole thing went down.
This is why Dana has to be brutal about kicking borderline types out of the UFC
so that the top brand doesn’t get directly tarnished by this thing.
If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand and some promises to keep...
It's inevitable that these events will occur.
The larger the sport becomes, the more outside-the-cage issues we’re going to see. It’s not an excuse, it’s just a fact. Professional football/baseball/basketball can control the number of people employed because of the closed fraternity system they have. The NFL doesn’t get cross-branded with the CFL or the Arena Football League, but MMA is a long ways from that level of distinction between brands.
MMA doesn’t have that same luxury, and there’s no way to differentiate UFC from MMA today, since 95% of the MMA people see is UFC brand. So any time some local event fighter goes and does something horrific, it reflects directly on the top brand, which is different than the NFL/MLB.
If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand and some promises to keep...
good points
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