From a BloodyElbow.com exclusive:

“… two gunman held [Lloyd] Irvin, his son, wife and UFC light heavyweight contender Brandon Vera at gun point while demanding to be directed towards valuables like cash or jewelry. While one gunman held Irvin’s family hostage, another gunman directed Irvin to the the master bedroom. According to Irvin, he led the gunman toward his bedroom. Once in the bedroom, Irvin said he noticed the other gunman was far enough away down the hall to make a move to disarm the attacker in his bedroom. Irvin, an expert in Sambo defensive gun and knife techniques, was able to get a hold of the gun in the attacker’s hands, first separating the clip from the gun and then removing the gun from the attacker’s hands. At that point, the attacker in Irvin’s room ran yelling to his accomplice that Irvin had his gun and both gunman fled the house…. Police were called to the scene and have launched an investigation. According to Irvin, no one in his family was physically hurt, although the psychological trauma at this point is considerable.”

One has to imagine that the assailants had staked out their marks prior to making the bold move of moving in on UFC light heavyweight Brandon Vera and his equally skilled instructor, Lloyd Irvin, with hand guns. Even if the pair didn’t it’s equally as dumb. Fortunately none of the victims were physically harmed in the stick up. “The Truth” heads out to London, England, this week as his preparation for Keith Jardine tapers as fight night approaches on October 18. Hopefully the incident does not affect his performance. Head over to BloodyElbow.com to check out the entire report.

October 6th, 2008    

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63 Comments »

Comment by LJ
2008-10-06 10:50:39

That’s beautiful! Dumb ass criminals got OWNED!

Comment by ViolentMike
2008-10-06 11:08:08

VERY, VERY, AWESOME STORY

Comment by PhilQNY
2008-10-06 11:16:54

I just wish.. Irvin and Brandon could of laid the open season beatings once the tables have turned.. on those spineless dumb ass wanna be crooks.. I would of gun clapped them fools.. snapped some bones.. cracked some ribs..I hope the cops catch those crab ass bitches.

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Comment by weoweoweo
2008-10-06 11:44:23

oooooh phil’s hardcoreeeeee hahahahahhaa.

 
Comment by c-war
2008-10-06 11:47:04

Here is the dumbest criminal ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uChRj_Yifk

 
Comment by santiago69us
2008-10-06 11:50:48

lol keith jardine diabolical plan has failed once again..lol i only know two other hardcore mofo who pull that clip disarming shiza off…jet li in LW4 and jackie chan.

 
Comment by c-war
2008-10-06 11:54:38

Here’s the extended link to the dumbest criminal ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uChRj_Yifk

 
Comment by john
2008-10-06 14:37:13

Great story! Nothing I hate more then pussies with gunz!

 
Comment by The Negation
2008-10-06 16:27:46

Stupid a$$-fucked goons!

 
 
Comment by Getrawbc
2008-10-06 14:56:58

Vera probably yelled at Lloyd, “Damn, you jumped in too early, you should have just let me get my ass robbed! I’m tired of people saving me!!!”

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Comment by brendan
2008-10-06 23:05:59

LOL

 
 
 
Comment by DJ
2008-10-06 11:18:42

Yes it is… the only thing more beautiful is that no one taken hostage got hurt.

 
Comment by Kimura by Fedor
2008-10-06 11:50:55

Damn, removed the clip before even removing the gun from his hands. Pretty sweet Lloyd.

 
Comment by THORAZINE
2008-10-07 00:58:58

LOL… Freakin’ walked into the wrong house!

 
 
Comment by LJ
2008-10-06 10:51:04

That’s hilarious! Lloyd Irvin is a bad man!!!

Comment by LJ
2008-10-06 10:56:11

Oops. Sorry for the double comment. Must be some lag.

 
Comment by sinister
2008-10-06 11:29:40

so.. what did brandon vera do?

Comment by McArthur
2008-10-06 11:40:22

probably kept eating or watching TV like nothing was happening…”lloyd will take care of this one”

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Comment by sinister
2008-10-06 12:09:35

lol

 
 
Comment by JV
2008-10-06 12:30:21

Vera sat back and made excuses!

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Comment by Kimura by Fedor
2008-10-06 15:07:04

lol. “it was my corners fault.”

 
Comment by brendan
2008-10-06 23:06:30

i didnt cut weight properly to disarm the other guy

 
 
 
 
Comment by UKmmaBOY
2008-10-06 10:55:51

These guys need to be nominated for a Darwin Award. Not as dumb as this guy though:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/dumdum/gunshop.asp

Comment by PhilQNY
2008-10-06 11:20:08

Wow!!!! DEAD STUPID!

 
Comment by MoonUK
2008-10-06 14:30:50

UKmmaBOY: This story reminds me about the time 2 guys tried to rob Duncan Fergusson’s (Scotish hardman soccer player) house, apart from Duncan chased them down the road and eventually caught them. Both ended up in hospital with broken bones.

Comment by UKmmaBOY
2008-10-06 15:50:45

I remember reading something about that a long time ago. Not the best of choices!!

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Comment by Luppers
2008-10-06 11:04:26

Sucks Irvin and Vera were both put through that. Hats off for handling the situation with heart.

 
Comment by DirtyML
2008-10-06 11:11:53

Irvin is just lucky he was successful in disarming the guy or he would have been shot and probably his family too.

I think if it was me and I was the best sambo guy in the world somehow, I still would let them just take my material goods and hope they left my family alone after.

It is a big risk and I am glad for everyone involved that it worked out OK.

War Sambo!

Comment by Pat
2008-10-06 11:40:42

“I think if it was me and I was the best sambo guy in the world somehow”

Then you would be Fedor, and hence invincible.

Comment by enzo-enormous
2008-10-06 13:04:23

Invincible? Whatever. He isnt invincible. Once he loses everyone will start hating just like you guys always do. Everyone loves him when he is on top of the world. Sorry Chucky, Page, Wandy, Hughes, you were everyone’s favorites until you lost.

I still love all those fighters, except Hughes, I never liked that dude.

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Comment by Pat
2008-10-06 13:22:49

Did somebody take too many serious pills this morning?

 
 
 
Comment by mike
2008-10-06 15:13:30

When I was in Iraq and to this day I think the same way as Irvin. If you have an opening you need to take it. If the guy is gonna shoot you either way you are done so might as well take the chance, if he is not gonna shoot you then he will hesitate enough for you to take him out. Either way if I die I will die trying to fight for my life, I’m not gonna die after giving some douche all my valuables.

Irvin is the man.

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

 
Comment by Aaron_W
2008-10-07 08:36:49

That’s the key, you hope they don’t put you and your family face down and execute you to get rid of witnesses.

 
 
Comment by allamerican
2008-10-06 11:15:16

i hope this doesnt effect vera in his next fight!!! he needs all of his thoughts to be clean for these next couple weeks. worrying about what he’s gotta face in the cage the 18th is enough…this probably wont make it any easier on his concience! nice job irvin!!! to the robbers…..talk about the wrong place at the wrong time! i’m sure they’ll concider a career change…..

Comment by The Negation
2008-10-06 16:33:18

If this affects him, it would be the “dumbest excuse” ever…

 
 
Comment by jerrolds
2008-10-06 11:16:09

holy crap - thats still scary

 
Comment by Jizzo
2008-10-06 11:17:23

to bad they didnt beat the crap out of them in the process.

 
Comment by Jason
2008-10-06 11:19:36

Here’s the best part: “was able to get a hold of the gun in the attacker’s hands, first separating the clip from the gun and then removing the gun from the attacker’s hands.” That’s some Jackie Chan shit there for ya.

Comment by randy murders
2008-10-06 11:40:24

hes lucky the dude didnt think of the 1 in the chamber still

Comment by Jeff
2008-10-06 11:57:19

Randy,

Considering what went down. I almost doubt this clown had one in the chamber. Hell, he may have still had the saftey on.

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Comment by kitsunex
2008-10-06 17:22:49

Not all pistols can fire when the clip is removed.

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Comment by bayareasrick
2008-10-06 22:27:59

It’s actually called a MAGAZINE if its in a pistol. Clip if it’s a rifle BTW.

 
Comment by kitsunex
2008-10-06 23:14:19

if you want to get technical, what in a rifle is a magazine as well. a clip is what the rifles used, which were a series of round held by a “clip”

 
Comment by bayareasrick
2008-10-08 01:25:06

Reread my post I never said the clip is IN the rifle.

 
Comment by The Rectifier
2008-10-08 12:19:20

Its called an oingo boingo….who the hell cares. Stop epeening each other and googling to make yourself look more intelligent.

on with the story….

 
 
 
2008-10-06 12:43:55

steven segal lol.. glad everything worked out. sick war story. haha

 
 
Comment by wAyNe
2008-10-06 11:19:39

Wow. We could have been reading this morning about a tragedy. This is an awesome story. My prayers are with that family.

 
Comment by lee maury
2008-10-06 11:20:21

where did it happen?

Comment by DirtyML
2008-10-06 11:24:08

Maryland.

 
 
Comment by weoweoweo
2008-10-06 12:07:45

oh mania did you see the radio interview of seth in bloodyelbow? ..he said the EliteXC officials “suggested” that he should stand and bang with kimbo instead of taking him down. And it would be worth while for him if he does.

so they picked a fringe, part-time, LHW prelim fighter to fight kimbo, they asked him not to take him down. And it still backed fired on them. too bad haha.

Comment by JV
2008-10-06 12:33:28

WHAT!!!!! Dam I got to go read that! Thanks for the info!

 
Comment by DirtyML
2008-10-06 12:39:22

Why would they say that to a former K1 striker?

They really didn’t know anything about Seth from the sounds of it.

I wonder if they “made it worth his while” given the outcome?

Very interested to see the EliteXC salaries, particularly for how they pay the female MMA fighters that arent named Gina and for Seth as well as Daley.

Comment by JV
2008-10-06 13:15:22

He said it was 6 figures for standing with Kimbo! He also says that his manager was getting death threats, and he was getting things thrown at him right after the KO.

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Comment by The Negation
2008-10-06 16:34:27

WTF, that’s pretty bad…

 
 
 
 
Comment by weoweoweo
2008-10-06 12:12:13

and seth said that EliteXC officials are planning to pit him up against tito for the belt in 2009. Since Tito is having surgery i doubt its gonna happen soon.

and would eliteXC really take a chance or overpriced overrated tito? ..oh wait, they have kimbo labeled as the baddest striker alive. So i guess an injured tito is still the baddest wrestler alive too.

Comment by JV
2008-10-06 13:31:59

Go over to cagepotato.com and see some pictures of Seth! Their making fun of Kimbo for getting destroyed in 14 sec. by a guy thats dressed as Seth is!

 
Comment by The Negation
2008-10-06 16:36:48

That’s some nice info there weoweoweo. If Seth took a dive, all Kimbo haters here would be ranting endlessly…

Comment by weoweoweo
2008-10-06 22:10:33

now that kimbo lost theyre turning to just EliteXC officials now haha. Everybody left the kimbo bandwagon so now theyre left to hating on eliteXC hahaha.

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Comment by DirtyML
2008-10-06 12:43:08

For anyone interested in hearing the Petruzelli interview on the radio the link is:

http://monsters.fm/pages/monsters_media.html?feed=246187&article=4355604

Talks about how he got 6 figures for the Kimbo fight, death threats to his manager, etc. Worth a listen.

 
Comment by belfort_fan
2008-10-06 13:35:29

Thats bad ass. im proud of him.

 
Comment by matthew
2008-10-06 13:50:58

hahaha cant wait for Vera vs Jardine. should be a good one!

 
Comment by Ground-Game
2008-10-06 13:55:23

Wife and son????!!! oooohhh…I know Lloyd wanted to crack some heads.

 
Comment by yo
2008-10-07 02:03:20

Brandon wasnt able to do anything…maybe he froze because of fear hahaha

 
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