You have for sure heard by now about the Lloyd Irvin drama and the controversy surrounding him and some of his team members. Back in December 2012 two of his male students were charged with rape after a New Year’s Eve incident involving a female student. Those two students, Matthew Maldonado and Nicholas Schultz, were ultimately found not guilty last year. Irvin had been involved in his own rape case twenty years earlier where he had been charged with gang rape (but acquitted). Multiple friends of his were convicted of the same rape and sent to prison.
Jake Rossen’s article– titled “The Cult of Lloyd Irvin” — was published by the Miami New Times and provided some disturbing details on life in the Lloyd Irvin inner circle:
Examples of cult like behavior and authority:
According to Fowler, Hall and others, Irvin would rouse students out of bed at any hour, demanding they run errands — anything from 3 a.m. calls for cheeseburgers to raking leaves or picking up dog waste at his home.
“It was about calling me at 1 a.m. saying that he needed some video,” Camacho says. “Or that someone is coming in from airport, and you’d pick him up at 3 a.m. No questions asked. We were in Lloyd Irvin’s world.”
“There was a lot of control,” adds Shultz. “Some people trying out for the team would pass out. It was kind of an initiation, like hazing. Looking back, I think he was trying to relive his fraternity days in the school. He wanted absolute obedience.”
Last week, Lloyd Irvin joined the Inside BJJ podcast program to talk about the Nick Schultz & Matt Maldonado case, the 1989 court case, Jordan Schultz, Mike Folwer, Ryan Hall, the medal chasers program, and much much more.
Irvin pulled no punches, and called these accusations a smear campaign, that he has proof that of this. He blamed website Bloodyelbow.com for many of the accusations. He talks about why bought up all the Loyd Irvin rape website domains. He is very critical of Ryan Hall, Jordon Schulz, Mike Fowler, Tracy Goodell. He doesn’t have anything bad to say about Keenan or JT Torres:
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