Patrick Freitas, 48, worked as a promoter and matchmaker for the Honolulu based MMA outfit Icon Sport between 1999 and 2006. Icon hosted dozens of MMA events in Hawaii throughout the sports’ late pioneer era.
During the MMA boom in the mid-noughts Icon was purchased by ProElite MMA (who hoped, at the time, to compete with the UFC). ProElite also owned EliteXC, Cage Rage, and King of the Cage. After Icon was acquired, Freitas worked within ProElite’s marketing department until 2008.
According to NY Daily News Freitas was involved in a violent encounter last week at a train station on Brooklyn’s Utica avenue.