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Fyre Fest fraudster Billy McFarland shocked the crypto and fight sports activities world Thursday evening, defeating the closely favored crypto YouTuber Justin “Jchains” Custardo through TKO throughout the principle occasion of Karate Fight’s Influencer Struggle Membership collection on the Consensus convention in Austin, Texas.
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Custardo, the co-founder of the Web3 Breakfast Membership channel, had skilled for months for the bout, promising revenge for the buyers who misplaced $26 million on McFarland’s fraudulent Fyre Fest. However Custardo rapidly ran out of fuel within the second spherical of the wild MMA-style struggle and had no protection in opposition to a barrage of proper crosses thrown by McFarland. With lower than 20 seconds left, McFarland completed off Custardo with a knee strike and a number of other punches, sending the gassed out content material creator to the mat for the ultimate time.
The 2-round struggle was the ultimate bout at Karate Fight 46, a four-hour occasion combining full contact martial arts with crypto buying and selling and immersive CGI environments powered by Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine program. Karate Fight odds makers had favored Custardo to win the bout with 58/42 odds, however struggle announcer and three-time UFC champion George St. Pierre did observe previous to the bout that McFarland doubtlessly had one main benefit in his nook.
“Do you think he learned anything crazy in prison,” announcer and podcaster Mike Maljack requested St. Pierre, referencing McFarland’s four-year stint in jail.
“I think he learned a lot more when he got out because he trained with Phil Nurse, who was my coach for my career,” mentioned St. Pierre, who’s broadly considered the best welterweight MMA fighter in UFC historical past. Nurse is a UK-born former Muay Thai kickboxer and undefeated European Gentle Welterweight Champion who now owns and trains out of The Wat, a gymnasium in Manhattan.
“There is no better teacher than Phil Nurse I believe,” St. Pierre mentioned.
McFarland thanked Nurse in a post-fight interview and promised to make use of a portion of his winnings, together with all of his $12,000 knockout bonus, to repay his Fyre Fest buyers. As for Custardo, the YouTuber took to social media shortly after the struggle to devour a post-bout slice of pizza and nurse his wounds.
“I got beat up, but it’s alright,” Custardo advised his followers.