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Demovictory9

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Fri Jan 7, 2022, 03:43 PM Jan 2022

MMA fighter regrets Hitler tattoos. [View all]

An MMA fighter was banned from making his pro debut after it was found he has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler

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Though Rousal has tried to distance himself from that past, it has not sat well with regional promoter Ondrej Novotny, who runs the Czech fight firm Oktagon MMA.

"You can't come to us and look like this," Novotny told Czech publication Idnes in December, days before Rousal was scheduled to fight a Slovak combatant called Nikolas Krivak.

People alerted Novotny to news that Rousal had a portrait of Hitler on his right hand.
Photos of Rousal show that he also has a tattoo of a skull wearing a military cap on his chest, likely a reference to the SS, the Nazi German paramilitary organization.

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"I grew up in the troubled community of people that made this tattoo," he said, according to Idnes. "At the time, I didn't know what to do with life, I was young and this tattoo was stupid.

"Later, I started doing martial arts, which led me to a completely different life and worldview. I have more tattoos that I regret, I gradually re-tattoo them all. I also want to apologize with my statement."

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