And honestly, after watching the buildup to this fight, I can’t say I’m disappointed.

Let’s start with Ben Azoulay, because the press conference alone deserves its own comedy special. Ben showed up wearing a plate carrier with magazines attached to it. Apparently, according to his explanation, he wears the protective equipment because he believes he has been the target of assassination attempts and because he is Jewish. Look, everyone is entitled to take reasonable precautions if they genuinely believe they’re in danger, but seeing somebody walk into a fight press conference dressed like they’re about to raid a compound is objectively pretty damn funny. This isn’t Fallujah. It’s a fight promotion press conference.

At the weigh-ins for their grudge fight, the size difference between Gypsy Crusader and Ben Azoulay was impossible to ignore. Gypsy stood four inches taller and tipped the scales a full 32 pounds heavier than Azoulay, creating a clear physical mismatch before the opening bell. Beyond the numbers, the experience gap is even more striking: Gypsy brings decades of legitimate Muay Thai training and competition into the ring, while Azoulay enters with zero formal Muay Thai background.

And then we noticed something else: the magazines on the plate carrier were upside down. Nothing says tactical operator quite like showing up to a press conference wearing a plate carrier with the magazines mounted backward. Maybe there is some secret Israeli-Nightcore tactical doctrine we’re unaware of, but here at Sudo Grizzly Gents, we got a pretty good laugh out of it.

Betting odds:

Fighter	Hypothetical Moneyline	Implied Probability
Gypsy Crusader	-250 to -350	~71–78%

King Azoulay

+200 to +280

~26–33%

The whole thing becomes even more ironic when you consider Ben’s criminal history and the legal restrictions that can arise from a qualifying felony conviction. Given his past conviction, questions about whether he can legally possess firearms are legitimate. That’s what makes footage in which he appears to pose with what looks like a pistol particularly interesting. The object shown in those videos has been described as an airsoft gun rather than a real firearm. If that’s what it is, then the entire image becomes almost comically contradictory: a man wearing a plate carrier and upside-down magazines, apparently trying to project the image of an armed operator, while his legal history creates significant restrictions surrounding actual firearms.

Maybe that’s the point of the entire King Azoulay persona. Everything has to look bigger, tougher and more intimidating than it actually is. The plate carrier. The magazines. The alpha-male branding. The stories about threats and assassination attempts. The political identity. The constant projection of being some larger-than-life warrior. But eventually you have to take off the costume and step into a ring.

And unlike social media, the ring doesn’t care how intimidating your Instagram aesthetic looks.

But there is something more important that needs to be said here. Criticism of Ben Azoulay isn’t automatically antisemitism. People don’t get a free shield from criticism simply because they’re Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Christian, black, white, Mexican, Russian or anything else. Jewish people aren’t Ben Azoulay, and Ben Azoulay isn’t Judaism. If somebody criticizes his behavior, his political opinions, his business history, his public statements or his criminal record, that doesn’t mean they hate Jewish people.

There are legitimate reasons people criticize Ben that have absolutely nothing to do with his religion. His 2008 criminal case, for example, is a matter of public record. Reporting on the case has described allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in 2008 and subsequently pleaded guilty to a California criminal charge and served time in jail. Azoulay has disputed aspects of how his history has been characterized and has described himself as innocent or exonerated, but the underlying court history is something that can be discussed without turning the conversation into an attack on an entire ethnic or religious group.

Then there is the whole “alpha male” persona that Ben has developed online. His public commentary about relationships between men and women has generated plenty of controversy, particularly statements that critics interpret as minimizing or excusing sexual aggression toward women. There have also been various claims attributed to him about the type and age of woman he wants as a wife. I’m not going to repeat every internet rumor as fact, because there is already enough bullshit online without us adding more to the pile, but the broader point remains: if someone builds their public identity around telling men how they should behave toward women, people are going to scrutinize what that person actually believes about women.

The same goes for Ben’s politics. He has publicly positioned himself as strongly pro-Israel and supportive of the IDF. That is his right. People are also entitled to criticize those political positions. The internet has produced endless arguments over Israel and Palestine, and apparently tonight we’ve reached the point where one side of that debate is going to be represented by a man known for nationalist Nightcore edits while the other side is represented by a guy wearing a plate carrier to a press conference. Somehow, this is the world we live in.

While we’re on the subject, we have to give a shoutout to Bubba and the Bubba Army. Bubba’s videos about Ben Azoulay have had us here at Sudo Grizzly Gents laughing our asses off. His latest video is exactly the kind of internet chaos that makes you wonder how humanity got here in the first place. Whatever you think about Bubba, the guy has certainly figured out how to turn the Azoulay saga into entertainment. Check out his channel , he does videos on all the alpha male chuds.

And we’ve been watching the Azoulay saga for a while ourselves. Ben has attempted to sue us for defamation multiple times over our publication of public court records, and according to our records, we’ve dealt with four separate attempts to go after us over our reporting. But public records are public records. If a court document exists, discussing it isn’t the same thing as inventing something about someone. There’s a major difference between reporting what a court record says and fabricating allegations, and that distinction matters.

There’s another reason this entire fight caught our attention: we’ve been involved in the Jiu-Jitsu and MMA community here in Southern California for nearly twenty years. We’ve trained, coached, competed and spent a significant amount of time around martial arts academies. One thing we’ve always taken seriously is maintaining safe training environments.

So when we learned that Ben Azoulay was training at a Gracie Barra academy, we reached out through our connections with Gracie Barra headquarters and raised our concerns. The result was that Ben was not permitted to continue training within the Gracie Barra network. Whatever somebody thinks about Ben politically, that’s not the point. The point is that martial arts academies have a responsibility to their students, instructors and communities to determine who they want inside their facilities.

The goal wasn’t to create some political blacklist or decide who is allowed to have an opinion. The goal was making sure that the people responsible for an academy had the information necessary to make their own decision about who they allow into their training environment.

Because that’s what a martial arts academy is supposed to be: a place where people can train safely. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether the guy rolling with you has an agenda beyond learning Jiu-Jitsu. You shouldn’t have to worry about somebody bringing their internet drama into the academy. And ideally, you shouldn’t even have to care what the person next to you believes politically. You bow, you train, you get your ass kicked, you help your partner get better, and then you go home.

Which brings us to Paul Miller.

Paul Miller, better known as Gypsy Crusader, is not somebody I’m going to pretend is innocent of saying hateful things. His online history is well documented. He became notorious for racist, antisemitic and extremist content, and he eventually served time in federal prison after pleading guilty to firearms offenses. His transformation from a combat-sports enthusiast into one of the internet’s most recognizable extremist personalities is an incredibly strange story, and one that deserves to be examined honestly.

I don’t agree with Paul Miller’s politics. I don’t agree with his racial beliefs. I don’t agree with antisemitism. I don’t agree with the hateful things he has said. None of that needs to be sugarcoated. His rhetoric is hateful, and he deliberately chose an extremely raw and unfiltered way of spreading that message.

But I can still recognize the fact that there is a human being underneath all of that.

Paul has talked extensively about being attacked by Antifa, losing his job, losing access to parts of his former life and eventually becoming increasingly isolated. None of those experiences excuse what he eventually became. Being attacked doesn’t give somebody a license to become a racist. Losing a job doesn’t justify hatred. Going to prison doesn’t make extremist beliefs correct. But I do think there’s value in asking what happens to a person when they become convinced that the entire world is against them.

Sometimes they recover.

Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they go deeper.

Paul went deeper.

Way deeper.

And I think that’s something we should actually be able to discuss without pretending that acknowledging someone’s humanity means endorsing their ideology.

I’ve never agreed with Paul on many things, but there is one characteristic I can respect: he hasn’t spent his entire existence changing his position every time the political winds shift. He chose a very ugly, very raw and very unfiltered way of communicating what he believed. I don’t respect the beliefs themselves, but I can understand why someone who has become completely isolated might eventually decide that the identity they’ve built is the only thing they have left.

That’s where martial arts comes into this for me.

Martial arts has always been one of the few places where I believe people who hate each other can still find common ground. You can disagree with someone’s politics and still shake their hand. You can disagree with someone’s religion and still help them off the mat. You can think someone is completely wrong about the world and still recognize that they’re another human being standing in front of you.

That’s what the world needs more of.

Not more people screaming at each other through screens.

Not more people trying to destroy each other.

Not more people looking for reasons to hate.

We need more places where people can simply be human beings together.

And if I have to choose between Gypsy Crusader and Ben Azoulay tonight, I’m choosing Gypsy.

That doesn’t mean I endorse his ideology. It doesn’t mean I agree with his politics. It doesn’t mean I think the things he said were acceptable. It means that if I’m forced to pick one of these two personalities, that’s the side I’m taking.

And then there’s the question of who can actually fight.

Ben has made plenty of claims about his fighting ability and experience. But when you look at publicly available combat-sports databases like Sherdog, there isn’t some massive professional fight record documenting the thousands of fights one might expect from the way his experience has sometimes been portrayed online. That’s worth pointing out because talking about fighting and actually fighting are two completely different things.

Paul, on the other hand, actually has a documented combat-sports background. Before becoming famous as Gypsy Crusader, Miller trained in Muay Thai and participated in combat sports. He has spent years around fighting and recently returned to competitive combat sports.

So tonight we’re going to find out what happens when the internet persona meets the actual fight.

Because the ring doesn’t care about Instagram followers. It doesn’t care about political ideology. It doesn’t care whether you’re pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. It doesn’t care whether you’re conservative, liberal, nationalist, socialist or completely apolitical. It doesn’t care how many people call you King.

The ring asks one question:

Can you fight?

And tonight, we’re going to get an answer.

Of course, because apparently one internet circus wasn’t enough, Dillon Danis is also fighting Mike Perry tonight. My old buddy and professional douchebag Dillon Danis is once again attempting to become relevant, which has been his favorite hobby for years. Maybe tonight is finally the night he gets there. Or maybe Mike Perry punches him in the face and sends him back to Twitter for another six months.

Either way, I’m watching.

So that’s tonight’s lineup. Gypsy Crusader vs. King Azoulay. Dillon Danis vs. Mike Perry. Internet personalities, politics, controversy, egos and combat sports all smashed together into one bizarre evening.

Pick your poison.

On one side, you have Gypsy Crusader, a man whose journey from combat sports into extremism is one of the stranger radicalization stories the internet has produced. On the other, you have King Azoulay, an alpha-male influencer whose public persona has become inseparable from controversy surrounding his criminal history, his views about women, his politics and his increasingly theatrical public image.

Neither one is a hero.

Neither one represents what I believe.

But if you’re forcing me to pick?

Let’s go, Gypsy.

Not because I agree with you.

Not because I support what you’ve said.

But because tonight, after all the videos, arguments, accusations, lawsuits, political bullshit, internet drama and endless talking, somebody finally has to stop talking and start fighting.

Tonight at 6 PM, we’ll find out who actually showed up to fight.

And maybe, just maybe, after everything else is stripped away, two people will simply get into a ring, put their gloves on and remind everyone that underneath all the political labels, internet identities and bullshit, we’re still human beings.

Now let’s see who can actually fight.

Let the games begin.

WATCH THE FIGHTS FOR FREE HERE:
https://bloodyelbow.com/2026/08/29/gypsy-crusader-vs-king-azoulay-duel-arena-live-stream-results-updates-and-more-as-mike-perry-returns/


For those still wondering about Ben Azoulays crimes:

1. 2008 Criminal Conviction (California)

• Charge/Conviction: Violating California Penal Code §288a(b)(1) — oral copulation with a minor.
• He was 18; the girl was reported as 15.
• He admitted guilt in open court, took a plea deal, and served jail time (he has publicly stated around 30 days).
• This is the only confirmed criminal conviction tied to the 2008 incident. Azoulay has repeatedly stated he was never convicted of rape and is not on the sex-offender registry.

2. Civil Lawsuit (filed ~2011)

• The alleged victim (and/or her family) filed a civil suit alleging sexual assault/rape involving Azoulay, his brother, and another person.
• The complaint described substantial physical and emotional harm, including long-term trauma.
• Secondary discussions of the court documents have referenced a medical report noting physical injuries (including tearing). Full clinical details of any medical report have not been published in complete open-source form.

3. 2007 Domestic Violence Restraining Order

• When Azoulay was 17, an ex-girlfriend obtained a five-year domestic violence restraining order against him.
• Court documents (discussed in investigative videos that reviewed the filings) state she alleged repeated physical abuse (striking in the face, head, and legs; hair-pulling), verbal intimidation (including with guns and a baseball bat), vehicle-related harassment, and stalking that led to his arrest.
• The order also protected her parents and her young sibling (reported as a four-year-old at the time). The restraining order ran until 2012.

4. Child Custody / Access to His Son

Secondary reporting and commentary (including investigative videos) have stated that the mother obtained full custody and that a restraining order related to the mother/child situation exists. Primary Ohio court documents confirming the exact terms of any restraining order or adoption waiver are not widely published in open sources; the core claim of lost access comes primarily from Azoulay’s own repeated statements.

Azoulay has publicly stated multiple times (in videos and posts) that he has a son (approximately 7–8 years old as of 2025–2026 statements).

He says the courts of Ohio took jurisdiction, that he has not seen his son for roughly four years, that the mother’s new husband adopted the child, and that he will not see him until the child is 18.

He has framed this as losing his son through the court system.