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Renzo Gracie & Cousins Get Community Service for NY Nightclub Brawl

Renzo Gracie & Cousins Get Community Service for NY Nightclub Brawl

 

 

Renzo Gracie was arrested in the early hours of Sunday the 18th of May 2014 after a big brawl in a nightclub in New York.

Under instructions from his attorney, Renzo was not allowed to discuss what happened on the phone, but did send Ariel Helwani a text.

“Everything is a misunderstanding,” Renzo wrote. “We always had a great relationship with that amazing club and all their employees.

“Soon everything will be clear.”

Renzo Gracie, along cousins Igor and Gregor Gracie and MMA fighter Rafael Barbosa and three other men, was accused of assaulting a bouncer at the club, and to have broken his arm during the fight. Renzo was released early on Tuesday after posting bail of $ 10,000.

 

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From L to R: Gregor, Rolles, Renzo, Kyra and Igor Gracie

 

The victim, bouncer Craig Molesphini, 35, suffered a fractured right arm along with bruises and cuts, sources said.

A little under a year after the incident, the Gracies have come off with a slap on the wrist:

According to NYPost:

 

Mixed-martial arts fighters Renzo Gracie and his cousin Igor, part of the famed Gracie clan, and five of their pals took no​-​jail plea deals Thursday ​in the beating of a doorman outside celebrity hot​-​spot 1Oak.
Renzo and Igor Gracie, Leonardo Leite, Rafael Barbosa and Carvalho Da Costa copped to misdemeanor assault in exchange for 10 to 15 days of community service. Leonardo DaCosta and Gregor Rangel pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in exchange for 1 to 3 days of community service.
The hulking cousins – whose Brazilian family started the Ultimate Fighting Championship – and their five pals showed up at the Meatpacking District club
​last ​May 17​ and became furious that bouncer Craig Molesphini had turned away two of their friends the previous week and vengefully attacked him, he told the Post.

“All of the seven men were fighting, doing MMA moves on the guards, some of whom were injured,” he said. “In my entire 14-year career, I have never seen anything like this.”
Renzo, 47, who lives in New Jersey, has a gym in Midtown where he trains top UFC fighters. Igor, 34, has a training gym in New Rochelle.
The defendants couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

 

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From left to right: Igor Gracie, Leonardo Leite, Renzo Gracie, Andre Gusmao, Rafael Barbosacarualh, Gregor L. Rangel and Leonardo DaCosta.

From left to right: Igor Gracie, Leonardo Leite, Renzo Gracie, Andre Gusmao, Rafael Barbosacarualh, Gregor L. Rangel and Leonardo DaCosta.

 

The incident caught on camera:

 

 

 

 

Mixed-martial arts fighters Renzo Gracie and his cousin Igor, part of the famed Gracie clan, and five of their pals took no​-​jail plea deals Thursday ​in the beating of a doorman outside celebrity hot​-​spot 1Oak.
Renzo and Igor Gracie, Leonardo Leite, Rafael Barbosa and Carvalho Da Costa copped to misdemeanor assault in exchange for 10 to 15 days of community service. Leonardo DaCosta and Gregor Rangel pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in exchange for 1 to 3 days of community service.
The hulking cousins – whose Brazilian family started the Ultimate Fighting Championship – and their five pals showed up at the Meatpacking District club
​last ​May 17​ and became furious that bouncer Craig Molesphini had turned away two of their friends the previous week and vengefully attacked him, he told the Post.
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1 Oak in New York City’s Meatpacking District.
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“All of the seven men were fighting, doing MMA moves on the guards, some of whom were injured,” he said. “In my entire 14-year career, I have never seen anything like this.”
Renzo, 47, who lives in New Jersey, has a gym in Midtown where he trains top UFC fighters. Igor, 34, has a training gym in New Rochelle.
The defendants couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.