Oscar Ortega was an MMA Fighter

Almost two weeks ago, a man from Idaho Falls drove 1,800 miles to Washington, D.C. in an attempt to assassinate the President, whom he considered “the anti-Christ”. The gunman, Oscar Ortega, fired a Romanian semiautomatic rifle at the White House; the President and First Lady were not at home. What many do not know is that Ortega was a talented MMA fighter:

A referee lifted Oscar Ortega’s hand high into the clear Rocky Mountain night last summer. Mr. Ortega had not yet been accused of trying to kill the president. He had not yet told the world he was Jesus Christ. Not until the next morning would all the blows to his body make him urinate blood.

That July night at the rodeo grounds in Pocatello, with 2,000 people watching beneath the dry Western sky, the lazy kid who used to smoke too much dope was lucid and devastating in his debut as a mixed martial arts fighter. For the first time anyone could remember, he was an undisputed winner. [NYT]