A look back at Lee Murray

I`m so tempted to post the 7 part interview that he gave in prison.

I didn`t think about posting the links.

  1. https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/7/2/17492116/the-real-notorious-lee-murray-breaks-silence-from-moroccan-jail-part-1-the-bank-job-mma-ufc

2)https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/7/9/17492142/the-real-notorious-part-2-krusty-and-the-count-lee-murray-conor-mcgregor-michael-bisping-ufc-mma

3)https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/7/18/17517424/the-real-notorious-part-3-lee-murray-and-the-american-dream-mma-ufc

  1. The Real Notorious Part 4: Street Fighting Man - Lee Murray on the infamous brawl with Tito Ortiz - Bloody Elbow

  2. The Real Notorious Part 5: Sin City - Lee Murray on his UFC debut - Bloody Elbow

  3. https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2018/8/6/17654976/the-real-notorious-part-6-the-last-fight-lee-murray-vs-anderson-silva-mma

  4. The Real Notorious Part 7: The Comeback - Lee Murray’s future plans - Bloody Elbow

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Tough guy. Not quite champion material but he could compete with the best.

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Paul Allen gets out early after a “deal” , rents a million dollar house off a famous comedian and gets shot up… this Lee Murray story is never going to be over

Lee had it pretty good in jail.Remember when they found a laptop computer with internet access & about five kilos of drugs in his jail cell?

Seriously though nobody remembers him posting on here while he was on the run? I have the thread saved but it no longer works.He was on a golf course.

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Here is the thread that no longer works.

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Nov '17

Lee Murray posting on the run

http://forum.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum_framed.posts_updsub&forum=1&thread=1479423&page=1&pc=108

Just copied & pasted from the post ^^^

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THE cage-fighting crime boss behind the ÂŁ53m Securitas heist has been moved to a high-security unit and stripped of prison luxuries.

It comes after the Sunday Mirror revealed that Lee Murray, who is behind bars in Morocco on drugs charges, fathered a child behind bars.

Prison chiefs were furious after learning that he flouted rules by sleeping with a woman visitor who was not his wife.

Murray, 32, was moved to a tougher unit of Kenitra prison, near Rabat, and his mobile phone, television and DVDs were confiscated.

It is believed that his right to have visitors has also been withdrawn.

A source close to the prisoner’s family said: “Murray’s life in prison is very different to how it used to be.

“The story about the baby has not gone down well among the powers that be in prison and guards are keeping a closer eye on him.

“He is being treated like any other prisoner would if they had done something that was frowned upon. He no longer gets all the privileges he used to.”

Murray previously boasted about his cushy life in jail.

In an interview from his cell for a martial arts magazine in 2009 he revealed that he could watch TV, DVDs and even ­pornography. And he said he had been rewarded for good behaviour, saying: “If you’re good you get special s***.”

He was punished for the c­omments with time in solitary confinement.

Murray has been in the jail since 2006, months after he led the biggest heist in British ­history in Tonbridge, Kent.

The gang kidnapped depot manager Colin Dixon and his family before stealing ­£53million in used bank notes. Murray fled to Morocco with his trainer and best friend Paul Allen, later caught and extradited to the UK where he pleaded guilty to his part in the raid.
Murray, who was known as Stopwatch by detectives because he had the job of timing the robbery, was arrested on drugs charges in Rabat and jailed for 25 years.

He fathered his 16-month-old son sometime around January 2010. Under Moroccan law, conjugal visits, where inmates can spend private time with their spouses, are ­often ­rewarded ­“unofficially” to inmates for good behaviour.

But they must prove they are married… Murray and the mother of his child were not.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/securitas-heist-robber-lee-murray-751051

MMA fighter-turned bank thief, Lee Murray, recently attempted to break-free from a Moroccan prison in which he has been held for cocaine possession for the last three years, according to Fighter’s Only Magazine.

The report indicates that the one-time UFC middleweight attempted to escape from prison using tiny saws that were hidden in his food. However, his efforts were apparently thwarted when a fellow prisoner broke into his cell, found the saws and informed prison officials.

It seems that several other prisoners do not like the way he is afforded special favors because of his money and stature

Prior to getting ratted out, Murray’s plan was to cut the bars off the prison’s window and squeak through the narrow opening. “Lightning” has been starving himself and training especially hard so that he would fit through the tight passage.

It was all for naught.

Murray has been in Morocco since he fled there after participating in the largest bank raid in British history in 2006 – he and six other associates allegedly stole more than $100 million. He sought protection from the Moroccan government because of his father being of Moroccan descent.

Murray defeated Jorge Rivera via first round submission (strikes) at UFC 46, which was his only appearance inside the Octagon. He is perhaps better known in the fight world for his exploits outside the cage, however, knocking out Tito Ortiz out cold during a street fight following UFC 38 in July 2002.

In fact, Matt Hughes detailed the entire fight in his book, including how Chuck Liddell had his back to a wall and kept knocking people out as they ran toward him. Ortiz refutes the story.

Murray is 8-2 overall in mixed martial arts competition. He last fought in September of 2004 at Cage Rage 8, dropping a unanimous decision to current UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva.

For more on the rise and fall of “Lightning” Lee Murray click here.

Triller event 2029 or when ever he’s out

Lee Murray released, re-arrested.

Freedom was short-lived for former UFC and Cage Rage competitor Lee Murray.

Murray, a suspect for masterminding the largest bank heist in UK history, was released from Moroccan jail and then re-arrested, according to reports.

Lee and others ran away with £53,116,760 (or approximately $92.5 million US) from a Securitas Deport in Kent, England on February 22, 2006.

Murray fled to Morocco and was arrested there four months later, but was never tried for the robbery since there is no extradition agreement between the UK and Morocco. The official ruling came Wednesday that Murray would not be turned over to the UK police.

“At a hearing on June 24, Lee Murray was deemed to be Moroccan and therefore cannot be extradited to this country,” a Kent police spokesperson said in a report on The Independent.
Murray was briefly a free man but was re-arrested after “British Authorities did put [in] a formal request to the Moroccan Authorities to have him tried in Morocco for the alleged robbery,” Murray’s attorney told Fan House.

According to the Sun in England, due to Murray’s Moroccon heritage, Murray faces a maximum of ten years in jail for the robbery.

Who told the truth: Tito Ortiz, Pat Miletich or Lee Murray?

When speaking with Chuck, he doesn’t care what you ask him. So I felt compelled to find out his version of that famous bar brawl in England after the UFC 38, during the summer of 2002. The brawl started with a friend of Tito’s playfully jumping on the back of Pat Miletich and then getting KO’d by a friend of Lee Murray’s that thought Pat was being attacked.

The big question was if Tito was actually KO’d by Murray. To this Chuck responded, “Absolutely not.”

Chuck recollects maybe Tito being knocked down, but he was definitely not knocked out. He remembered Tito was wearing dress shoes which were not ideal for a street fight. He clearly remembers, after knocking out at least five or six guys himself, walking off with a girl he didn’t even know, to appear not to be part of the melee once the cops arrived.

Looking back, he saw Tito pulling and tugging with the police to get at Murray. I told Chuck that Pat Miletich’s story stated Tito was KO’d and kicked in the head. Chuck’s reaction to that was Pat was gone before the two even fought, so Pat had no idea what happened. Chuck remembered Pat loading up the guy who was KO’d into a cab and both left the scene.

Keep in mind, Chuck does not really care much for Tito Ortiz, so there would be no benefit in lying to make Tito look better. According to Chuck, Tito has always been self centered, such that when the two were doing a signing in Bakersfield, Calif., Tito wouldn’t even let fans get pictures with him. He’s not a very nice person and does not have much to do with the guys who helped him coming up, other than the rich ones. “If they can no longer do anything to benefit Tito, then it’s like see ya.”

Chuck summed up that bar brawl very well with: “Once it’s not a one on one, there are no cheap shots, anyone hitting someone I knew I just ran over and dropped ’em. If I hit you from the side and you don’t see me hit you, you’re going to sleep.”

I think Tito was lucky to have Chuck in the street that night, probably saved his ass. In the end, Chuck was the only one that did not get detained, his little trick of walking off with a random girl seemed to work. Something tells me he may have used that trick before.

One of the greatest stories attached to mma ever.

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Hate to break it to you @crowbar , but that wasn’t Lee Murray on the UG. That was back when MentaL had figured out how to hack into the old forum, and he had all sorts of fun pretending to be people such as Lee Murray or Dan Hendo(Hey Skooter).

But this is a bad ass thread and I’m glad you made it :slight_smile:

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