MMA prospect accused of almost killing a man during brutal street fight

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According to Joseph Hosey of the Joliet Patch Michael ‘Wardog’ Reid was released from jail on Monday on a $500,000 bond. The 22-year-old resident of Minooka, IL – a suburb of Chicago – had been incarcerated since March 4th after his alleged role in a street-fight that left one man in hospital, fighting for his life.

Michael Reid is a boxer, Muay Thai, and MMA fighter who, according to his instagram profile, holds an amateur boxing and Muay Thai record of 130-6 and pro record of 2-0. A Junior Olympic and Silver Gloves-level boxer, Reid has competed at Illinois based-promotions Cut Throat MMA and Supreme Promotions (who in 2014 offered $5,000 to anyone willing to ‘challenge’ Reid to a Muay Thai contest).

In an interview with MoreMMA.com, a 19-year-old Reid stated that he was a student of Carlson Gracie, as well as Joe Bennett; a boxer who boxed on the same USA Olympic team as Muhammad Ali. In that same interview Reid also claimed to be a personal trainer at …

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