After a number of days of confusion and uncertainty, a number of mainstream information retailers confirmed that former UFC and PRIDE fighter Phil Baroni had been arrested in Mexico for allegedly murdering his girlfriend. The New York Submit, CBS Information, and The Related Press verified verified MMA Mania’s preliminary report sourced from Tribuna De La Bahia.
In response to police paperwork, Baroni doesn’t deny that he killed his companion, whose full title has nonetheless not been launched. Nonetheless, he claims her demise was an accident after he threw her right into a bathe throughout an argument over infidelity.
Baroni says the girl hit her head when he threw her, after which hit her head once more as she fell to the bottom. He says he helped her to their resort mattress after which went to get beer and cigarettes. When he returned she was unconscious. He flagged down police, who discovered the sufferer with “a number of indicators of beatings” and “no important indicators.”
New information from ESPN Desportes reporter Carlos Contreras Legaspi shares an replace on Baroni, who has been moved from a brief jail cell into the notoriously violent CERESO Estatal No. 3 jail the place 19 individuals died throughout a jail break final week. He faces a 30 to 50 12 months sentence for homicide.
“UPDATE on the Phil Baroni case,” Legaspi wrote on Twitter. “The previous Pleasure/SF/UFC fighter has been transported to Tepic, capital of Nayarit, the place he’s now in a State Jail (CERESO). His listening to will probably be on Monday the place a choose will decide his authorized standing. If responsible, sentence goes from 30-50 years.”
Legaspi clarified in one other tweet that the choose will probably be figuring out if the proof within the case meets the usual for a homicide trial, which might happen afterward.
One piece of proof that gained’t play effectively for Baroni is pictures taken by the police of his arms outdoors his resort room. His proper hand seems crimson and swollen alongside his knuckles.
Phil Baroni is an skilled journeyman of fight sports activities and has fought for almost each main MMA group over his 20 12 months profession. Following his semi-retirement from the game in 2014, “The New York Dangerous Ass” made a swap to professional wrestling, becoming a member of a tag workforce with UFC pioneer Stephan Bonnar. Whereas the workforce confirmed potential, Baroni’s erratic habits quickly derailed the brand new profession.
Former UFC champion and professional wrestler Josh Barnett believes the habits he witnessed in Baroni over current years was a results of continual traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) suffered from combating.
“I’ve seen the decline from the person I’ve been mates with for therefore lengthy to the place he was final I noticed him, and it’s heartbreaking,” Barnett wrote. “Now with what has occurred in Mexico it’s simply so terrible.”
