Karim Zidan is to me the best true journalist in MMA and it's not close. His work on revealing the ties of many MMA fighters, promoters, managers, and agents to shady people is some great investigative work.
In this article, he talks about former Extreme Fighting Champion Igor Zinoviev, most famous for a major upset against Mario Sperry in Extreme Fighting 1 and one of the fastest KOs in UFC history when he was slam KOed by Frank Shamrock in UFC 16, permanently ending his fighting career. I was reminded of it in the recent Namajunas/Andrade fight.
Igor appeared in a couple films, as I recall, but it seems eventually he got work as pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's driver and bodyguard/hired muscle. Worthwhile read here.
The former UFC fighter with ties to child sex abuser Jeffery Epstein
In this article, he talks about former Extreme Fighting Champion Igor Zinoviev, most famous for a major upset against Mario Sperry in Extreme Fighting 1 and one of the fastest KOs in UFC history when he was slam KOed by Frank Shamrock in UFC 16, permanently ending his fighting career. I was reminded of it in the recent Namajunas/Andrade fight.
Igor appeared in a couple films, as I recall, but it seems eventually he got work as pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's driver and bodyguard/hired muscle. Worthwhile read here.
The former UFC fighter with ties to child sex abuser Jeffery Epstein