27-year-old Huerta — who was once featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated — was in front of a bar in Austin around 2 AM on Saturday morning … when some other people began fighting. Roger was near the scuffle … when he saw one of the men involved punch a female who was standing near the ruckus.
Once Huerta sees the woman collapse to the ground — he instantly tries to confront the attacker saying, “You just punched a f**kin’ girl.”
Moments later, Huerta takes off his shirt … slams his hat to the ground … and rushes after the man.
Chaos ensues and people scramble after the fighters, blocking the camera — but seconds later … a shirtless Huerta can be seen finishing his attack on the other man … who is sprawled out on the street.
People rush in to aid the bloody man on the ground — who eventually gets off the pavement — as Huerta walks away from the battle ground.
Austin PD tells TMZ that officers were called to the scene — but so far, no arrests have been made.
Huerta’s manager tells us, “I have not spoken to Roger yet about this incident, but I can say that it’s in his nature to be very protective of women.”
Sucker punching somebody weaker than yourself is obviously the height of cowardice. But in this age of ‘equality’, does hitting a woman per sejustify getting a beat down from a professional fighter? An assault so vicious, that it might leave you eating through straws for the rest of your life? Well, yes seems to be the general consensus to those commenting on (ex) Lightweight UFC fighter Roger Huerta’s white knight KO’ing of a big black dude who ‘laid his hands on a woman’.
On first viewing of the video, it does appear that the black guy is guilty of sucker punching a random white lady. On second viewing, it would seem more likely that the white woman has done something personally to anger the black guy in the bar, perhaps even hit him (you can’t really tell because the video begins with a fight spilling out into the street and the apparent ‘sucker punch’).
But wherever you read this story, nearly 100% of the comments are fully supportive of Roger Huerta. Don’t hit a woman. Period. Nobody knows the background to the incident, but virtually every man who has watched the video would cheer if they learnt that the black guy’s life support machine had been switched off.
Dana White himself, president of the UFC, had this to say about the incident :
“In no way do I condone street fighting, but when a guy puts his hands on a woman he deserves to be knocked the [expletive] out. Good for Roger.”
I wonder if that quote will be remembered should the UFC ever follow the lead of other MMA promotions, and allow woman cage fighters to choke and pound each other in order to line promoter’s pockets?
1. Posted by The Great One Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:47 pm EDT
Good for Roger, i would have done the same damn thing. I am a fighter myself, but you NEVER put your hands on a woman under ANY circumstance. Good job Roger!2. Posted by Horacio Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:48 pm EDT
My worst nightmare would be to pick a fight with a dude i didnt know was in the UFC.
29. Posted by Angelcruise Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:42 pm EDTWhat if the Woman started the Fight, w/ her loose & stupid mouth… how many times has that happened…Equality?!!
But what’s most disturbing is the fact that although there is no dispute that Roger Huerta knocked the guy out, it appears that TMZ.com, who released the video, edited it to make it look as though he was also the man curbstomping him at the end of the video. In fact, upon closer inspection it seems that this was not Huerta. Yet when interviewed by TMZ the ex-UFC fighter was happy to go along with the story, and did not make any attempt to deny that it was he who was stomping on the man’s head as he lay on the ground.
I wonder who Roger should come to the aid of in this video?