Anthony Johnson Arrested for Domestic Violence

[MMAWaves]

UFC welterweight fighter Anthony Johnson was arrested for domestic violence involving his ex-girlfriend on June 27, according to MMAFrenzy.com. Johnson was bailed out the same day as his arrest and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing in court on July 17.

[gracie bjj]

fighters are regular dudes, they just do a different kind of job then most people for a living. it makes you wonder if the courts will be harder on him cause hes a fighter, let me say this also, if your girl comes at you and you grab her to defend yourself she can call the cops and claim domestic violence, broads lie all the time for revenge reasons as well as spite

[SinCitysmallGUY]

This story is still developing, but MMA Frenzy is reporting that UFC welterweight and fan-favorite, Anthony "Rumble" Johnson was arrested in California on June 27th on charges of domestic violence:


MMAFrenzy.com has confirmed with the Hayward, California Police Department that UFC welterweight Anthony Johnson was arrested on June 27 on multiple charges relating to an alleged domestic violence incident involving his ex-girlfriend.
The charges include domestic violence, battery with a special relationship, criminal threats, and damaging a cell phone. Though he was arrested on felony charges, the District Attorney filed misdemeanor charges, each of which is punishable by up to a year in county jail and an undisclosed fine if convicted.

According to police, the incident took place at 10:49am PT on the 27th with Johnson then contacting police on his own before being arrested at 1:30pm that afternoon. Authorities said he was very cooperative and polite.

Details of the incident were not available, though based on the charges Johnson allegedly struck his ex-girlfriend during the incident and damaged a cell phone so that she was unable to contact police to report the incident.

This is shocking news to say the least.  It is notable that Johnson himself contacted police and essentially turned himself in, but I'm going to hold off on commenting until more details are released, and it does look like we will learn more from official sources soon according to Kris Karkoski at Frenzy:

When reached for comment, Nathan Brodnax of MMAagents, which represents Johnson, had no official comment on his arrest and could not confirm any details of the incident, but said they would be issuing an official statement later tonight or tomorrow.

Johnson, who was bailed out by an undisclosed party on the 27th through a bonding agency, is next scheduled to appear in court for a pretrial hearing on July 17th.

Johnson is not currently scheduled to compete on any upcoming UFC card, as he recently dropped out of his TUF 9 Finale fight with Matt Brown due to injury.  In his most recent fight, Johnson scored a first-round TKO over Luigi Fioravanti back in February at UFN 17.

Innocent until proven guilty, etc

[Geo]

fighters are regular dudes, they just do a different kind of job then most people for a living. it makes you wonder if the courts will be harder on him cause hes a fighter, let me say this also, if your girl comes at you and you grab her to defend yourself she can call the cops and claim domestic violence, broads lie all the time for revenge reasons as well as spite

of course he's innocent until proven otherwise...

but if it does come to light that he is guilty, I would'nt blame Dana if he pulled the plug on johnsons UFC Contract just to send a message....

the last thing the UFC needs is to be associated with is domestic violence cases...

total black eye for the sport !

[gracie bjj]

of course he's innocent until proven otherwise...

but if it does come to light that he is guilty, I would'nt blame Dana if he pulled the plug on johnsons UFC Contract just to send a message....

the last thing the UFC needs is to be associated with is domestic violence cases...

total black eye for the sport !

  rampage had half the police force chasing him on a highway and dana actually went to help get him out of jail and got him a zuffa hotshot lawyer on top of that, and rampage is a hell of lot more popular than johnson is in the ufc. if you can make the ufc money and put asses in the seats, the ufc will overlook anything. damn ojay simpson would of still be in the ufc if he was a cashcow, things happen in life. i could see if he beat her down and all but bitches tend to exaggerate violence. i had a broad try to stab me with a scissors and when i kicked the weapon out of her hand she called the cops and charged me with domestic violence. i told the cop the truth about what happen but she denied it and they always take the broads side so i got arrested