Tait & the Hotel Lobby Omoplata, as told by Joe Rogan.

Eddie Bravo, Tait Fletcher and I were just getting to our hotel rooms in vegas, and there was some really fucking douchey drunk dudes in the hallway. They start giving Tait shit for trying to go into his room, saying it was their room. Now, Tait's a big fucking dude, a 6' 3" 220, and he's all tatted up with a shaved head, so you know the guy is just fucking retarded. The drunk dude was actually even bigger than Tait, at least 6' 6". He leaves, and then starts pounding on Tait's door after it's closed. Tait, Eddie and I go out into the hallway, and the dude starts calling Tait a homo and telling him he thinks he's hard and that he would own him.

Tait is smiling the whole time, and he finally says "come on over here and swing on me." The dude comes over, and Tait leg kicks him in the fucking elevator lobby, and then fucking PULLS GUARD!!!!! He gets the guy in an omplata, and holds him in "chill dog" position when security shows up. I tell them to back off, that the guy is going to be ok, and they trip out for a second, going "Hey, that's the fear factor guy" Then I tell them that "he needs this. This is going to be good for him. He deserves this." They listen to me, and that's just enough time for Tait to transition to this dudes back, and choke the fucking shit out of him. The dude is going out with his eyes open, and his friends are trying to stop it, but we wouldn't let them. No one else fought, but we told the guy's friends that this was going to be a good thing for him, and that he was a dick. Eddie informed the guys friends that he's going to be alright, but that "he's just going to sleep for a little"

Tait puts the guy to sleep, and the dude's friends picked him up and apologized.

A fucking OMOPLATA in a street fight.

It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen, and it just happened. My hands are still shaking from the adrenaline. The thing that pisses me off the most, is I have a fucking camera in my pocket and I was so blown away I forgot to pull it out.

Posted on 8/5/05, www.mma.tv