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Lober book summary:
At 9 years old bullies followed him home. Johns dad made him fight the bully, who knew wrestling. Dad watched bully kick johns ass. despite that, john said he had a good dad. Jon played football. He was 185 vs many 250 pounders. Took a hit from a guy who went on to play in nfl, lost his 2 front teeth. He was getting laid at 13. Moved a lot. Tried to become a fireman, worked as a volunteer free. Couldn’t get hired cuz he didn’t speak Spanish. Was into lifting weights, but decided to try pro fighting since he loved to streetfight. Admired tank and kimo. Started jkd and bjj under ken gabrielson. Blue belt in 3 months training twice a day. Obsessed. Got bjj black belt in 2010. J threw the first grappling tourney in orange county and “got” to break a cops arm. J is 23-5 in bjj comp.
Went to kiev to fight in a tourney on 10 days notice. Last minute opponent heberstreit, listed as bjj black belt (wolfcastle note: if youve seen this fight, he is clearly not a bjj fighter. Looks like a wrestler). Lobers dad died while j was in kiev. John broke his foot in the fight, first kick he threw. Albin had to smuggle the tapes out of the country. Mafia guys were difficult bas rutten playfully thres varleans out a glass door while after-partying.
Had a fight in Biloxi. Last minute they said they could only pay him $500. J was on the posters so he bluffed that he was going straight home. They gave him $2,500 to fight once. He met perretti for the 1st time, gave him tickets to the fight. J knew he was going to win by the scared look on fawcets face. Lober slipped to his back, but got a leglock win out of it. Perretti offered him a title fight with igor right after.
Partying in hb a bodybuilder stepped on js foot and smacked him for saying something. J smashed him then fight 7 bouncers with friend trigger. Arrested and sentenced to 5 days labor and probabtion.
Partying again another bodybuilder/bouncer sucker punched him. Got heelhooked for it. bouncers cuffed him, j choked out dude with the cuffs. Went to his own wedding next day hung over and black eye.
Found the same suckerpunching bouncer in a weightlifting gym. Suckered him back and left.
Got his “machine” tattoo before he got the nickname. He saw it as advertising. Igor fight when he suplexed him, j rung his own bell upon landing the slam. Got really tired in the fight but went to a draw. Got fined for a headbutt.
Was offered a fight with militech. J gave his training partner the fight, who lost. Drunk lober went to pats room after and choked the first guy he saw out, got mounted by a bigger guy, was eating shots and bit his nipple in defense. Escaped that position., rest of the team only wanted to fight him in a cage for money.
Vs frank shamrock, j felt like he was signed to be the loser. Was headbutting frank a bunch then ate an elbow that took out his fake front teeth. Saw militech later, wanted to streetfight him. Then wondered why he felt like that. Saw frank later, nearly fought him again over “I cant believe u almost armbarred me” Militech called him, complimented him, came out to train with J. that’s how MFS started.
JL briefly trained with hendo one day. Got tapped, not knowing who he was. Kneebarred him “coulda broken his leg” didn’t. for his kevin Jackson fight he had a fever. The flu. No energy during the fight. Was glad to be choked, not beaten further.
Got 90 days house arrest for headbutting a store owner who got in his face for taking customer parking.
In pancrase he wasn’t concerned about the rules, got a red card for holding down kuni by his hair. got 8 red cards that night. Lost.
Never did his community service, so served 21 days in jail, mowing lawns. Healed all injuries while incarcerated. Hurt his back training, 12 days before fighting shibuya. Got on hgh from mexico. Felt he won, got a draw.
Hgh’d up to 230 to fight 240 pound yanigashawa. Jls shin broke in a toe-hold. Didn’t hurt til adrenalin wore off. Paul the wrestling coach stole all his Vicodin. J was in pain.
Tito came in and asked john to make him a ufc champ. J believed in him.
Felt he kicked suzukis ass, but got a red card and a loss for a strike with his head out of the ring under the ropes. Really wanted to fight frank again. Perretti offered him chuck. J said he would only fight chuck if he gets frank first. Frank having just armbarred kevin Jackson.
J was partying too much, overtrained… took a 23 hour travel day to get to brazil 1 day before the fight. Staying in a favela worse than Tijuana. He felt bad, needed rest, but fought anyhow. J said he would bet frank on any other night, 8/10 times. J got tired and couldn’t do anything standing. J was knocked down for the first time. Frank was talking shit while beating him up. (wolfcastle note: after his loss to lober, frank took his training to a new level)
His paycheck failed on first try at the bank. He called and threatened the ufc, and the check cleared.
J threw a fight show in Compton, said they were making a movie. Cops showed up but couldn’t prove the fights were real. Guys like tito and yves Edwards fought in it. J fought izzy Johnson. Took a big shot that exploded his nose. Maybe pine tar on gloves? Then tortured izzy with a long slow sidechoke.
Fought watanabe no rules. Got held down in guard whole fight.
Threw another underground nhb show that cops tried to stop. The show went on.
More hard partying before his takahashi fight. He escaped a guillotine by oil checking him, deep. They made a new rule against it after.
He doesn’t seem to like tito, who he calls Cheeto. Trained him a bit but said tito wouldn’t listen. Had a strategy for tito to beat frank, tito did not use it. J said frank was gonna gas tito out. Tito chose lober as an unpaid cornerman. J claims he only went along to watch tito lose. Eventually kicked tito out of his gym.
Got too drunk and chopped a beer bottle in half twice, destroyed his hand. Went to ER. Destroyed it again a few days later.
His party bro Frenchy died… or faked his death. It wasn’t him in the casket. He left stuff for J, including a check for $350, 000.
He quit fighting, and started selling Dogg Digital home theater systems out of rented vans. Sold over a million gross. (wolfcastle note: google shows everyone saying theyre a scam) got 18 tickets driving those vans, lost license. Worked with lots of shady people, everyone got ripped off at some point. Bunch of cops pulled him over once and recognized him. Talked fighting, cop bought speakers too. Some dude working at a church stole a speaker system. So J went back to the church the next day. There he was at his job. J ko’d him and got his speakers back.
J kept throwing underground fight events til one went off with no cops. Quit at the top.
Got drugged while out drinking and woke up beaten to a pulp, no memory. Had to go to court next day. Got 12 days in jail. Cops found out who he was, put him in solitary to avoid fights and further time.
Partied in a vegas club 3 days straight. Wont say what happened. Driving home big car accident, thought he was gonna die. Bruised head to toe. Wasn’t as bad as they thought. Was poppin lots of pain pills.
Wife tasha had their son. Then a girl called her and said she was preggo by J.
Back to jail for gun possession.
Another night of drinking, added fireworks… bunch of goons were starting fires and he fought 12 of em. Cops 12 counts of assault with deadly weapon. He hadn’t used a weapon.
Bog downward spiral on drugs, friend dead, arguing with tasha… did drug delivery. Started tattooing people badly, and unsanitarily. Herpes broke out in the area.
Nearly got busted in a raid in mexico. Hid in a closet and escaped. Brought meth pipes back. Picked up a cute snitch who got em busted. Cops asked for $40. Js crew said fuck off. The crooked cops kept trying to get something for a bribe, but eventually let em go. They did meth in the car on the way home.
Decided to take 1 last pancrase fight. Started training in terrible shape. Toughest loking guy in the gym was wasting him. J eye gouged him deep. 8 weeks of training later he was back in top shape and ko’d the same guy in sparring. Someone told the cops theyd find him at that gym. Back to jail. Took part in a few race-based group fights.
Lawyer screwed him. Same lawyer that lost 10k on a stock trade J had something to do with. Got disbarred. J started reading the bible, found god. When the judge was about to hammer him hard, she went easy on him. She said for his cute son in the courtroom. J thought it was a sign from god.
Got out, went to a boxing gym. Got hit super hard so J kicked him.
Took a fight in Hawaii. Tigre. Dropped him, woke him up with punches. Ref stopped it on an armbar attempt, J didn’t tap, and was pissed. Went and drank 57 bloody marys. (watch the fight here, lober screamed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhmW3287YgA )
At age 39, J got raided and jailed again. Brink bailed him out and got him to his fight in kotc. J says he broke both his arms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Edhegaie8&t=6s
Took another fight feeling like shit at kotc. Lost and doesn’t even know what happened.
Today he is a minister, personal trainer, fight coach, sales reap, and grandfather. Living in atlanta.
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That is actually too much living for one human. He’s one of those rare guys who goes from bad to worse to total trainwreck in the span of two weeks, shakes it off, and then does it all over again for years on end.
Unreal.
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Fighters Gonna Fight. They aren’t Accountants.
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Iran Barkley said he best when asked by a reporter what he would be doing if it wasn’t for boxing, his response “robbing your house”
So this was a big thing in Orange County back in the 90s
John is a very interesting dude. I was around him here and there and barely talked to him lol
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