Over in Main there is trouble brewing for one father who when unable to afford last weekends UFC card in Abu Dhabi decided to hold his own event in his house matchmaking the only fighters he could find on short notice, how own damn children.

From the Bangor Daily News,

Pedro Delgado-Bristol, 26, allegedly forced his two boys to fight on Jan. 9 at his Rockport home while he lay on his bed and watched, according to police reports. The boys told a Knox County Sheriff’s Office detective that the fighting they did was like the Ultimate Fighting Championship and that they had to hit each other with closed fists, kicks and knees to the body.

The boys also told the detective that their father hit the younger one with a sandal about six times when the 4-year-old refused to fight anymore.

Detective Justin Twitchell of the sheriff’s office wrote in his report that the younger boy “said that he was being forced to fight his older brother and did not want to. His brother had hit him and hurt him, which made him cry.”

The boys’ mother saw the injuries on her younger son when she picked them up from a visit with Delgado-Bristol, and she reported the man to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, which in turn reported the matter to police.

As a parent and all around combat sports fan I will admit to dreaming about the apple of my eye growing up to blacken and bruise the eyes of his opponents. But at least when my kid has unsanctioned matches in the living room he will be fighting the canniest of cans & I will be the ref & judge. All jokes aside this is really deplorable behavior, hopefully the children involved are young enough that they won’t remember this incident and their mother will take them far away.

It is also refreshing to see that event though Ultimate Fighting is mentioned as a style/method of fighting, but not the cause of the fall of western civilization. Hopefully we can go back to blaming the rap music and video games