If you look at the Twitter bio of Will Fleury, it doesn’t mention his double champ status for Oktagon – or even mention the promotion at all. It doesn’t mention his record or any other accolades that usually show up in those places. Instead, it gives a quick shout to his home gym of SBG and then casually mentions “a bit of a legend one time I beat up 16 guys outside Hillbilly’s”.
While it is certainly a believable story, Fleury was happy to share that the inside joke from the bio is a bit of a tall tale.
“It’s a complete exaggeration. There was maybe three or four guys. I was giving a friend the piggyback and some guy kicked my legs out from under me,” Fleury explained. “We got up and there was a bunch of guys around us.”
While it seemed like the conflict was going to dissipate, it flared back up pretty quick thanks to his friend getting back in there.
“My friend was a lot more pissed off than I was. Basically we walked away and my friend walked back over – that was bad for him,” he recalled. “They surrounded him, and when they surrounded him, I was like, oh, they’re going to start it.”
Even though he had not been a fighter yet, the Irish star was still realy to end a fight if he needed to for his friend. And although it wasn’t actually 16 guys, the story is better if it is.
“As soon as they grabbed him, I jumped into the crowd. It was a bunch of bodies and because I jumped on top, I made a bunch of guys fall over,” Fleury said. “As they were getting back up, I was hitting them one by one – this was before I even started fighting. But I probably dropped about four guys and then I grabbed my boy and we ran away. Then the story became Will Fleury beat up 16 guys.”
Give him a chance and that number gets bigger by the minute.
“I heard it was 20,” he added with a chuckle. “It was actually 20.”
Fleury’s next fight won’t have to be 16 or 20 people. He’ll face just one – Kasim Aras – in the main event of Oktagon 90. That fight is for the Oktagon heavyweight title and takes place this Saturday. The card begins at noon eastern time on Oktagon TV.
