I posted this link before, but want to point this out, below are excerpts from the article (it seems to get messed up when I put quotes around it... just want everyone to know this is entirely from the article and is not my writing below)
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There was nothing that stood out about Todashev when the two faced off in a 2009 New England grappling competition, a video of which is online.
In another video from 2009, this one showing an MMA bout at American Steel Cage Fighting in New Hampshire, the man who was shot on Wednesday strides into the circular ring to the thumping bass of Cypress Hills song Rock Superstar: You want to be a rock superstar and live large / A big house, five cars, youre in charge.
The announcer introduces him as hailing from Chechnya, a freestyle fighter with a perfect amateur mixed martial arts record with four victories in all four of his bouts. Before the start of the three-round fight which Todashev would lose two bikini-clad card girls circle the ring.
Courtesy of Gary Marino
Ibragim Todashev weighing in at a
2009 mixed martial arts competition in Salem, New Hampshire.
Todashev is credited in that video with fighting for Wai Kru, the same gym in Allston, Mass., frequented by Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The mans father, Abdul Baki Todashev, told NBC News in a phone interview from Chechnya that his son and Tamerlan Tsarnaev went to the same gym for boxing classes.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...hechen-man-killed-during-fbi-questioning?lite
So this article actually
places IT and TT at the same gym in 2009, two years before the Waltham murders.