Affliction’s Todd Beard Is An Unsavory Character
Riding on the heels of a highly publicized restraining order , the PR disaster known as Todd Beard continues to impress with his laundry list of skeletons falling out of the closet. The latest details about Beard’s “questionable” past deal with his jail time, elderly fraud scam, and of course, assaulting a pregnant ex-girlfriend, all of which might just result in the loss of sugar daddy backer Donald Trump.
Beard the con-man:
“…The scam involved dozens of telephone salespeople at the four companies who persuaded people to buy home safety products for far more than they were worth by telling victims they had won expensive prizes…They targeted the elderly because they were the most vulnerable…They were usually partially or fully senile, widowed and alone with no close family around…
Bowman’s role was to make the initial calls to potential victims. He earned the company $110,000. Beard made follow-up calls to people who had been duped once to try and dupe them again. He brought in $350,000.”
Beard the assailant:
“Denise Zullo, with whom Beard has a daughter, has alleged in court that Beard has struck, intimidated or threatened her and has received court protection from him in the past.
In a December 31, 1997, request for a restraining order, Zullo testified that in the late summer of 1996, Beard punched her in the stomach while she was pregnant. She also testified that on May 13, 1997, she sprayed him with pepper spray to stop what she called “another of his violent, drunken outbursts.”
Beard the inmate:
“Beard served 30 months in a federal prison from 1993-95 after pleading guilty to three felony counts, of conspiracy, wire fraud and mail fraud. Those felony convictions may end billionaire Donald Trump’s association with Affliction’s MMA promotional company. Trump holds a gaming license in New Jersey and gaming licensees are not permitted to do business with felons.”
It would appear that Couture and company are indeed better off without Affliction if this is the man they would be dealing with. No one in the business wants to be associated with that kind of image nightmare, and it can only further hurt Affliction’s chances of long term survival. Metal bands and lousy announcing are almost forgivable, but when it’s revealed that the company president punched a pregnant woman and conned senile old people…well you just can’t spin that sort of thing in any better light.
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If they lose the Donald, there may not be a January event….then it’ll be the UFC and Strikeforce in NA.
Bring Fedor, AA, Barnett, and Rothwell into the UFC. Be a stacked HW division.
I would love to see that, but I think that both Fedor and Barnett dislike the UFC. I know Fedor has a problem with them because of the exclusive contract. Also, the UFC cut AA (sort of), not sure about Rothwell.
Wow, and i just continues to get worse. What a scum bag.
Very true Justin, but hopefully Fedor and Barnett would look past that and just want to fight the best fighters in the world. I hope Dana and AA bury the hatchet and bring him back.
Fedor,Barnett will most likely go back to Japan, if they weren’t going to sign with UFC I would love for them to join StrikeForce but that’s wishful thinking to say the least
I hope they produce their January card just so I can see AA v Fedor but other than that ehh
Todd surely will burn in hell imo
“Also, the UFC cut AA”,
Not true, AA contract with UFC expired and he got a much better deal with Affliction. $800k vs $150k per fight. Also, Dana wasn’t doing much to promote him at the time. Why wouldn’t you want to take you more money, more promotion and chance to fight Fedor?
Fedor will never sign with the UFC. That would be the death of M1, whose sole purpose is to promote Fedor.
Terry,
UFC wasn’t promoting AA because he wasn’t putting on a good show, and they weren’t going to offer him more money for the same reason. What you had to say was valid though, I don’t blame AA for taking a more money. What you said was the reason for the “(sort of)”.
I know this will get me flamed but F Fedor. If he wants the respect of being the pound-for-pound best fighter in MMA he needs to be fighting more often and better competition. Affliction has some talent (though not near the same level as the UFC) but if they lose Trump’s backing and fold he needs to sign with UFC or as far as I’m concerned his career is over. Even in Affliction he’s not being tested against Big Tim and AA.
The guy is definitely a great fighter but having him fight the UFC’s sloppy-seconds once, maybe twice per year and saying he’s the best P4P fighter is a joke.
Fedor may be the best P4P fighter now (I still disagree, but that’s another conversation), but not ever. When he gets 70 wins, he can try to claim to be best ever. Until then he’s just the latest, not the greatest.
The AA fight will be his first real fight since 2006. Anyone else would be called a slang term for a woman’s reproductive fun part if they claimed to be a champion with the opponents that he’s faced lately.
Ryan, who should Fedor fight???
I’ve always wanted to see Barnett v Fedor, AA v Fedor is pretty good
Finkelstein (?) Won’t allow Fedor to sign with UFC soo I mean who exactly is outthere for him to fight? Kimbo? Actually something interesting is that Semmy Schilt would like to rematch with Fedor, that wouldn’t be too bad imo
I like Fedor don’t get me wrong and ever since he “broke his hand” wink wink in 2006 it has been freakshow after subpar opponents, then he destroys Timmeehhh in 36seconds and “hurts his hand” again I was like oreally now this shh again, now Affliction is attempting business sucide and everything is up in the air… Anyone smell Fedor fighting in Japan for the NYE show hmmmmm Fedor v 65 angry MIDGETS, PRIDE rules knees to a downed opponent and all
Maybe when Affliction goes belly up, Fedor can join Kimbo Slice and Hulk Hogan in the movie Kung Fu U. Teach the nerdy kids in the movie sports entertainment, street fighting, and MMA!!
but he has a lovely singing voice…:)
Since nothing is proven right now the fair thing to say is that both parties have questionable histories…
With respect to the current incident of course…
Dbiz, Who is the greatest EVER then? and people should boycott affliction.
Beard thinks he is a gangster. He thinks he is big. Truth is…..he is just a big pile of **** and I’ll splat him all over the f-ing wall. What a f-ing scumbag. Problems with his ex and Mrs. Couture!?! Is he a wanna be pimp, women hater, stupid F, or crazy? Why is he consistantly having lady problems regardless of his relationship status with them? Pervert? Many questions…to be answered…with answers that only a sociopathic POS would have true answers to.
Find someone with 70 wins in 90 fights.
Rickson
ahh..Travis “The Ironman” Fulton 189-45-10…..122 sub wins..60 ko/tko wins..6 decicions wins and 1 other
Assuming you mean Gracie, FR, he’s 11-0 in MMA fights.
No he isn’t maybe in your little sanctioned fights he is 11~0 but in real fights in 459 ~ 0 just ask him
Or the classic rook move Rickson by armbar
For a minute tho there was this awesome article in Fight! Mag with Rickson and him explain the lineage of Gracie Jui~Jitsu and for people that don’t know about Hielo and why a Kimura is called a Kimura its a good read…
in my town we have a Royce jj training center it would be fantastic if one day one of the “uppers” of the Gracie clan would come and stop by I would like to meet Rickson and/or Royce
Relax Dbiz its all bueno
That’s awesome GUN just a great bit of info there
He fought Dan Severn like 8 times, Horn like 4, Babalu, Forrest, The Janitor, beat Riggs fought Rothwell 3x
Wow just wow
He faught Franklin, Lindland and Wiuff as well. Different organizations on back to back nights, definitely earned his nickname.
Keep it clean and keep them honest. I wonder how deep is Mr. Donald Trumpt involved in Mr. Birds’ dirty business? Should have not he know of the character of his associates? But, he has much to much money to be questioned.
I love the sport UFC sponsors. I hope it will not allow any black eyes involved other than in the octagone.
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Gunslinger you are the man. That should quiet the masses.
@FR702
He is definitely good and I don’t mean to imply that he isn’t. I just don’t think you can say he’s the best fighter when he’s not fighting the best competition. Across all of MMA I think you need to decide where the best heavy weights are and that’s where Fedor needs to be fighting in order to justify the P4P title. Fighting anywhere else doesn’t earn him that title. Personally… I think the best and most deep HW division is in the UFC so he’d need to fight guys like Nog, Mir, Couture and Lesnar. Not sure I’d see any of those guys beating him but I think they’re among the best HW’s.
Anderson Silva is a good example… he gets fewer questions about his P4P title because he fights often and he fights the best guys that the UFC has at MW.
@Ryan in NY, i agree and how can u not, that is what we all want Fedor to do, but even tho he isnt exactly old he isnt going to fight forever and he should fight more than twice a year, and should fight the best guy avaliable
Earlier this year, Beard launched an attack on another long-time business partner eModa.com, an online retail giant. This site practically kick-started ‘Affliction’ selling literally tens of thousands of the Skull obsessed shirts when the brand hit the market back in late Spring 2003
Emoda.com was the first online retailer and gave instant gratification to consumers who saw their favorite fights all of a sudden wearing the distinctive apparel into the octagon.
At first it was a great partnership, eModa had the access to the trend conscious consumer and Affliction produced the trendiest shirt ever to hit the mainstream Dunbar adds” 2008 we planned to increase Then out of the blue the relationship went sour and very similar to the Couture situation, it was Beard’s jealousy and paranoia that got the better of him and destroyed the eModa/Affliction relationship!
The reason: eModa (just to remind you a retailer) put what Todd felt was a rival clothing brand up on the site. Sources close to Affliction camp said that Todd was not unhappy eModa.com sold brands that he felt competed with Affliction, Which were other brands who also tapped into the professional fighting market. Nevertheless eModa.com tried to resolve the situation but Beard’s temper was out of control. He began bugging Dan Kogan’s phone and threatening him – an Affliction insider said he actually had a picture of Dan on a dartboard in his office next to that of Dana White on another one! I guess Kim Couture has her own dartboard frame now hence the restraining order! Todd then sued eModa for Affliction products he had previous sold to the online retailer however when it appeared he may not win that suit he then sued eModa for selling counterfeit Affliction products.
Either way Todd Beard seems to have no concern when it comes to threatening others even the UFC HW Champion’s wife! His violent tendencies and erratic behavior in business make him a very dangerous person.
–eModa is still involved in the lawsuit with Beard and Dunbar adds “it is unfortunate Mr. Beard allows his emotion and temper to dictate his business because his brand was in the top 50 out of the more than 200 designer eModa.com carry.” “eModa has done several photo shoots with UFC fighters including Randy Couture. “He (Randy Couture) and his wife are stand up people and were a pleasure to work with.”
Guys.. you talk about Fedor having a not so huge number of wins.. then mention sanctioned vs. unsanctioned fights.. so I guess you must not be aware he fights pretty much anyone he can in Russia?
I’m sure he has hundreds.. if not thousands of fights in his lifetime. One of the reasons he won’t sign with UFC.. Dana won’t let him keep fighting in Russia if he does.. soooo
Fedor rapes peoples faces. That is the way he is.
My unsanctioned/sanctioned fight comment was in jest and clearly about Rickson Gracie and his “legend” that was talked about early in his PRIDE days and still to this day