Anyone remember the story about David Lang, who claimed to be a black belt under Wallid Ismael and/or Giva Santana

Mine is suspicious as I refuse to tie it properly and am thinking of wearing socks

UFC fighter Maycee Barber?!?

We had a guy here in Canada years back that would wear a black belt and do WWE moves on video.

Did you ever come across Ari Bolden/Knazan/Kay, given he's in Canada too? Though naturally Canada is a pretty big place: he's in Victoria BC specifically. I'm not sure how integrated he was with the local BJJ scene. IIRC the zillion threads on him, there is a Carlson Gracie affiliate (Zuma) right near Bolden's school who never had any luck with asking him to roll etc. Though I don't put Bolden in the same category as some of the others, although he started off his BJJ career as somebody from a different style putting on his TMA black belt (which interestingly also had doubt cast on it, from shen IIRC) and blurring the line, he did then go and get his BJJ belts from people with a legit lineage (Eddie Bravo and then Keith Owen).

another one from back in the day was alleged black belt Gene Simco. This goes to mid 2000s in the NY BJJ scene. He got called out by many people and this was on the Bullshido site when it was big. This was a really big controversy in like 2008 or so. One of the threads I was able to dig up. https://www.bullshido.net[...]court-case

Yes Gene Simco I remember. He claimed he was a Leo Dalla black belt if I am not mistaken. He became a pastor in a church or something.

another one from back in the day was alleged black belt Gene Simco. This goes to mid 2000s in the NY BJJ scene. He got called out by many people and this was on the Bullshido site when it was big. This was a really big controversy in like 2008 or so. One of the threads I was able to dig up. https://www.bullshido.net[...]court-case

Yes Gene Simco I remember. He claimed he was a Leo Dalla black belt if I am not mistaken. He became a pastor in a church or something.

Mine is suspicious as I refuse to tie it properly and am thinking of wearing socks

Anyone remember the story about David Lang, who claimed to be a black belt under Wallid Ismael and/or Giva Santana Somewhere in Rio, Wallid was fuming mad. https://www.youtube.com/w[...]xyT_HOp7vQ

Got my eyes on these bad boys. LOL

Ah, that was it: Leo Dalla. Thanks, that helped me dig out some old threads. rec.martial-arts is awesome for finding discussion about old school BJJ drama. Here's one from 2003 on SImco: https://groups.google.com[...]MKuZ4Yf2sJ Here's a quote from another thread, again about Simco: https://groups.google.com[...]5V5pIYtDsJ 'About a week ago, I asked a question about the propriety of instructors wearing 'the wrong belt' when teaching. Among others, you came back with a definite nay: http://tinyurl.com/uvr1 Would it surprise you to learn that the guy I was asking about was Gene Simco, who prior to 1999 wore his Japanese Jujutsu black belt to teach Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, even though he had earned only a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu at the time? Would it surprise you to learn that Gene Simco claimed to his present instructor, Michael 'Bolo' Jen (http://www.jenbjj.com/) that he had first earned his BJJ brown belt from Fernando 'Cabeça' Sarmento Jr (http://www.fernando-cabeca.com/) but that after some sexual harrassment scandal, the belt was rescinded - a claim that Cabeça adamantly denies? Instead Cabeça claims that Gene Simco wanted the brown belt to help his 'marketing' efforts and Cabeça refused to participate in the deception.'

you are good at digging up. There are many forum posts about him and his fraud from way back in the day.

Did you ever come across Ari Bolden/Knazan/Kay, given he's in Canada too? Though naturally Canada is a pretty big place: he's in Victoria BC specifically. I'm not sure how integrated he was with the local BJJ scene. IIRC the zillion threads on him, there is a Carlson Gracie affiliate (Zuma) right near Bolden's school who never had any luck with asking him to roll etc. Though I don't put Bolden in the same category as some of the others, although he started off his BJJ career as somebody from a different style putting on his TMA black belt (which interestingly also had doubt cast on it, from shen IIRC) and blurring the line, he did then go and get his BJJ belts from people with a legit lineage (Eddie Bravo and then Keith Owen).

I met Ari in person when I went to Victoria a few years ago. He was really nice and Keith Owen was actually there that day, so I had the pleasure of getting to roll with him, too. Keith just kind of flowed with me, as I'd imagine he could have made it a bad time for me if he so chose lol. Also, while I don't recall the specific injury, I do remember that Ari was only able to use one arm while rolling, but he was still willing to roll with me