Comments Thread For: Matt Remillard Facing Five Year Sentence For Bat Beating

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Featherweight contender Matt Remillard (23-1), 25-years-old, is facing a five-year prison sentence after pleading no contest to beating a man with a baseball bat in Connecticut last year. He entered a plea of no-contest to first-degree assault on Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court. He is scheduled to be sentenced November 29.

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[mushahadeen]

you just cannot go around beating people w/ a baseball bat. why take the risk of going to jail? unless he **** ****s your baby girl or something-- you just don't do that. it's ******.

[UglyPug]

you just cannot go around beating people w/ a baseball bat. why take the risk of going to jail? unless he **** ****s your baby girl or something-- you just don't do that. it's ******.

haha exactly. . .

at least he didn't use his fists, though - those are more dangerous weapons than a bat for a pugilist!

[Team Vitaminas]

You threw your career away over a bitch?? You deserve to be in jail.

[ROSTAM]

5 years (probably half with good behaviour) isn't enough, the victim should have the right to smash his head in with a bat.

[UglyPug]

LOL don't worry guys - MIKEY GARCIA made him pay more than enough with the beating he gave him. . . .

[cool-jupiter]

I've seen him fight once on TV. He seemed to be a good fighter. Sorry to hear this sorta news, as always. This is yet another Boxer Behaving Badly news. I don't know what the real relationship between the two guys and one chick was like, but what I'm wondering is why Remillard used a baseball bat to punish the other guy. He should have at least used his own natural weapon instead: his fists. A pro boxer punching a normal guy's lights out is a bad thing, but a pro boxer hitting a guy with a baseball bat is worse, almost unthinkable.

[manchesterct66]

I’ve just signed up to this forum after seeing the responses to this story. Everyone will believe what they want to believe, but being privy to the court proceedings for the past year plus, I have no doubt that Remillard is being screwed by the system. There were three others involved in the incident that were initially charged. These three (who are all related) copped deals to turn against Remillard. They all walked away without anything, despite being responsible for the majority of the damage.

The truth would have come out in trial, but going to trial would have meant 3 people against the word of one pro boxer in an assault case. Remillard would have been looking at over 10 years if he was convicted. It’s easy to place the blame on the boxer and he’s also a better target for a civil suit. You won’t get any cash out of three low level townies, but you can go after an aspiring athlete for compensation.

In addition, the alleged victim’s hands aren’t exactly clean. His own involvement and actions towards the woman and others have unfortunately been kept from the media. While unfortunate, it is also no surprise as his family is very well connected in the state.

Remillard never had a chance in this case.

[johnm is...]

You beat someone with a bat, you should get MORE than 5 years.

[taansend]

From the headline I thought he'd been beating up bats.