Self-proclaimed “alpha male” Ben Azoulay was removed from a Tuff N Uff MMA event in Las Vegas despite arriving with VIP tickets. What initially seemed like a random incident has since been pieced together through multiple accounts, revealing how he got in and how things escalated once he was recognized.
According to the event’s organizer, the tickets came through an unexpected connection.
“One of the guys from McGregor Sports hit me up,” he said. “Good friend. I know that he works with McGregor. He was just doing the Canelo-Crawford match. Good kid.”
The request itself didn’t raise any red flags.
“He goes, ‘Hey, I’m in Vegas. I’m with a few well-known people. Is it cool if I get some VIP tickets?’” the organizer continued. “I said, ‘Hey, sure. Let me see what I can do for you.’ I got him tickets. I didn’t know who he was bringing.”
He also made it clear that he wasn’t closely monitoring arrivals that night.
He said, “Once he got there, it was him, Ben Azoulay, some other guys that have a podcast, and two other people.”
“We were the presenting sponsor for the Tuff N Uff event,” he said. “So we were like the main sponsor there with Motion. I’m doing a million things that night.”
Once Azoulay was spotted, the mood shifted quickly.
“I’m like, wait a second. No way,” one attendee recalled. “And so I commence to tell King David. I’m like, ‘Hey, bro.’”
The realization spread almost instantly. “And he’s like, ‘What? Wait,’” he said. “He’s like, ‘Whoa, who, what, what, what do you do?’ And then next thing I know, it just went off.”
An athlete with ties to the UFC, who was present at the event, described just how tense the situation became.
“We’re at Tuff N Uff, which is a local MMA promotion,” he said. “In Las Vegas, you’re going to get dozens and dozens and dozens of UFC figh ters to the event.”
He emphasized the level of experience in the room. “I train and I coach at Xtreme Couture,” he said. “PJ’s a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who’s fought professionally.”
From his perspective, Azoulay may not have understood the environment he had stepped into.
“Now there’s a whole army of well-trained, dangerous men,” he said. “Professional MMA athletes, UFC stars behind me.”
He didn’t hold back when describing how it could have escalated.
“And what this gentleman, the p*rvert, who pulled up didn’t realize,” he said, “is that there’s an army of dudes ready to jump over the banister, the barrier, the barricade, and stomp his head out.”
After clips of the incident began circulating, Azoulay took to social media to give his version of events.
“You mean the guy felt threatened and ran to tell security he was worried for his safety because I walked right up to him and he pissed his pants,” he wrote.
That claim was immediately challenged by someone who said they were there. “I was there. Stop lying,” the commenter replied.
Azoulay dismissed the response outright. “No, you weren’t,” he wrote. “That guy was scared when I walked right up to him. Low lives always stay low lives.”
In another comment, he added more detail about how he saw the situation.
“I almost beat up a couple of guys,” he claimed. “And we were 12 guys deep.”
According to him, that led to security stepping in.
“So the guy went and said he’s worried for his safety and that I threatened him,” he wrote. “So they asked me to leave.”
The UFC athlete who confronted him offered a blunt summary of the incident. “We punked a p*rvert at an MMA event,” he said. “He got booted out.”
He also framed it within a sentiment he believes is growing in the community.
“And in light of what’s going on with the other files that are being redacted and not released,” he said, “I feel like the tone of the community is like, let’s start punking these people and not letting them just walk around in public.”
