Vinny Magalhães Credit score: PFL
Former UFC and PFL fighter Vinny Magalhaes has been arrested in Las Vegas and charged with three felony prices together with assault with a lethal weapon.
AG Battle was the primary to report the arrest.
In accordance with stories Magalhaes, 40, is accused of threatening three victims with a weapon throughout a home dispute. No person was damage within the incident.
Court docket data present Magalhaes has a courtroom date set for Dec. 23. A conviction on all three felony prices may imply a most penalty of 18 years in jail. He’s presently in custody on the Clark County Detention Middle.
Magalhaes is a veteran of the game, but in addition an enormous identify in Jiu-Jitsu. The previous no-gi ADCC champion was inducted into the ADCC Corridor of Fame in 2024, and held MMA titles in Titan FC and M-1 World.
The previous gentle heavyweight fighter took half in The Final Fighter: Workforce Nogueira vs. Workforce Mir. He made it to the finals solely to lose to Ryan Bader within the finale by way of first spherical TKO.
He took half in yet one more combat with the promotion, a loss to Eliot Marshall, at UFC 97. Shortly after he was reduce from the UFC having gone 0-2 earlier than ultimately becoming a member of the PFL previously generally known as the World Collection of Combating.
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