UFC, Bellator vet faced with three cases of aggression

Melvin Guillard, a veteran of the UFC and Bellator, is incarcerated in a Colorado jail after his arrest related to a club fight earlier this month.

Guillard, 35, was in the Jefferson County Court (Colorado) on Monday for a separate domestic violence and assault case when police placed him in custody on a trail warrant. simple.

Police said Guillard had stunned a bar client after a dispute at a club in Denver on Sept. 3. Video footage obtained by TMZ appears to show that Guillard hit an unidentified man before fleeing the club identified as Standard Bar.

According to online criminal records, Guillard is charged with three counts of second degree assault and a third degree assault charge in relation to the incident. His bond is set at $ 10,000.

Guillard is back in court on October 10 to answer charges of domestic violence, which include second-degree assault by strangulation and domestic violence.

According to an affidavit obtained by MMAjunkie, he was arrested on the morning of April 23 in Jefferson County, Colorado, following a complaint filed by a girlfriend who was returning immediately. The woman claimed to have hit her and strangled her during a fight at her coach's house. She said it was triggered after Guillard and Guillard returned from a restaurant and they were intimate when they started arguing about their relationship.

The woman told the police that she had confronted Guillard about leaving his wife and the two men clashed. Guillard then put his hands around his neck and strangled him, pushing him to slap him. She told the police that she was afraid that Guillard "is killing her". When Guillard let go, they started arguing again, and Guillard would have used a hold to silence her again. She told the police that he had shaken her from one side to the other before she managed to escape and call the police.

In a separate interview with the police, Guillard did not dispute the argument regarding their relationship and said that he had taken the woman by the neck, after which she shouted: "What's wrong?" are you going to do, hit me? " when he told her to leave. The police noted that Guillard appeared intoxicated, "but was well composed and clearly consistent." The woman was observed with a bruised and swollen left eye and she "cried and had difficulty verbalizing her thoughts".

Guillard is also back in court on October 10 to respond to another case of second-degree assault, which arose from an incident that occurred on September 30, 2017 in Jefferson County. According to an affidavit in support of a likely cause, the police were called to a hospital and contacted a man who claimed that Guillard had assaulted him at his home. dispute about his girlfriend.

The man said that Guillard had been friends, but Guillard had started flirting with his girlfriend via social media. He intervened and exchanged several text messages before the incident where they "spoke" to each other. On the night of the assault, the man told the police that an acquaintance had burst into his home and caused unrest, prompting him to escort the acquaintance into the street. There, he found a 1999 Buick Regal with Guillard inside, and both started arguing.

The man claimed that Guillard "was complaining of having spent all his time with his girlfriend and not enough time with him". The man tried to get Guillard away, but the fighter stepped out of his car and approached. Guillard allegedly hit the man several times, knocking him out after the man would have called him a "jealous". Police said the man had cuts and swelling in his nose and lacerations under his eyes and on his forearms. The man later told the investigators that he needed several stitches and a surgically implanted metal plate to repair a broken orbital bone.

The trial for domestic violence charges and alleged assaults last year is expected to begin in January, Jeff Russell County District Attorney General Pam Russell said.

Over the past seven years, Guillard (32-21-2) has a record of 3-13 with a pair of no-contest. He lost eight fights in a row. He fought four times for Bellator in this sequence and scored 1-3, but this one win was canceled by a non-contest when he tested positive for a banned substance. In the past 15 months, he has been eliminated 0-4 with four consecutive losses, including when he fought for the Australian Fighting Championship middleweight title.

In recent years, Guillard has struggled to scale. In his last 10 fights, he has run out of weight or fought a trolling weight for seven of them. That includes what was supposed to be a WSOF title shot against the champion of the time, Justin Gaethje. When Guillard beat himself at the UFC, he was light. Over a period of more than eight years in promotion, he went 12-9.

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