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Originally Posted by StimAbuser
Holy ****. I met him years ago in Vegas a couple days after UFC 100. I was playing poker at MGM, and he was at the table. I had no idea who he was. We were involved in a few hands, but nothing major. Saw him at the pool the next day and he came over to say hi, and we talked a bit about poker from the day before, and then about all kinds of random ****. We ended up talking poolside for about 3 hours over a few buckets of beer. It wasn't until about 2 hours into the conversation the topic of what he did came up.
He was just a real chill dude. Became Facebook friends and stayed in touch over the next few years. He'd always message me when he found out when his next fight would be, and who it was against. It was cool to tune in and be like "yeah, that's my boy." I was watching at BWW the night Barboza decapitated him, and a bunch of people there who knew me and him were friends were like "damn man, you going to his funeral?"
After that night, he wasn't on Facebook a whole lot, and I don't think we had much interaction. I guess that was the beginning of the end for him.
Yeah yeah, I know...cool story bro.