What's the Deal with Ron Collins' Creepy Tinder-Profile Picture?

Previously in RonCollinsFacts, we talked about the creepy public bathroom selfie Ron Collins posted to Facebook. It has been three and a half weeks since Ron wrote that he was "done talking" about martial artist Don Roley. He said, in that blog, that he was going to travel to Colorado to confront Don Roley and fight him. As this is posted, Collins is still in West Virginia and hasn’t made any effort to travel.

Of course, he says it will happen at some point. But he has made similar claims about the lawsuit he threatened, and 8 months later no one has been served with any papers. It can be expected that Collins will scream and rant about how he is going to go fight Roley for as long as he thinks he can milk it for, but in the end find an excuse to not show up.

Instead of going to Colorado, Collins has been very busy trying to attack Roley on the internet. One of the latest tactics is to try to convince people that Roley is somehow sexually abusing his children. No one is taking him seriously. Looking over what he writes. His theory only makes sense if you are a mental patient who refuses to take his medication.

The great irony of course is that it is Collins who has a legal record involving young girls. He was convicted of contributing to delinquency of a minor. In court papers made available by Ron Collins himself, it was alleged that he tried to ply an underage girl with liquor and possibly pills (Collins disputes this last point, to the best of our knowledge). Some years later, Collins was arrested for having child pornography on his computer -- material that he did not deny was there. No, rather than say it never happened, he claimed a relative was responsible for downloading the material to his computer. The situation escalated to the point that Ron was arrested for making "terroristic threats" against a police officer and court officials involved in the matter. Collins spent several months in jail and then the authorities, rather than pursue the various issues for which he had been arrested, chose to send him to a mental hospital (despite his protestations that he was sane and could stand trial) for treatment. Ultimately, he was released, apparently in an agreement with authorities there that he take his medication and stay out of trouble. Looking at the obsessive nature of his attacks, taking hours every day to write, it looks like Collins may be off his meds (whatever they are).

Collins has previously claimed that it was the underage girls who originally came onto HIM at the mall. This is clearly delusional, as even when he was younger, thinner, and had hair, he was hardly the sort of person women would find attractive. This is a screen shot from Ashida Kim's old forum where Collins (posting as "Draven Azropht," the same name he gave to the protagonist of his poorly written fantasy novel, "The Brass Keep") told his bizarre version of events:

"Here is the story. I met these girls when I was working at the mall. They are both like 13, their parents would drop them off for like 6 to 12 hours during the summer, everyday they where out of school. One of these girls, throws herself at any man who will talk to her & decided she wanted me..."

Why would Collins make such creepy statements about young girls? Possibly for the same reason that he would hang around in public bathrooms taking pictures of himself sucking in his gut. In our opinion, someone like this targets younger girls because he has no chance with a real woman his own age. To state the obvious, Collins is not what real women look for.

In terms of his looks, he has these things going against him:

• He is short at only 5'4" according to his booking photo.
• He is horribly fat, soft, and out of shape.
• In his thirties, he has a very embarrassing bald spot that presents in an unusual shape -- a shape that makes his head look like the male sexual organ.
• In all his photos he appears to be wearing one of perhaps only three shirts. It seems as though he is homeless, or living so close to the edge of the poverty line that he is functionally homeless. We cannot imagine someone in those circumstances bathes regularly or even often, which probably means he smells of body odor.
• He is constantly disheveled, from his facial hair to what is left of the hair on his head to his general appearance. He presents as a homeless person even if he is not one.

Now, it is a fact that adult women gauge the attractiveness of a potential sexual partner based on material and physical factors. That means that Ron Collins has these factors against him that have nothing to do with his appearance:

• He is apparently unable to hold a job and lives of some kind of government assistance.
• He spent time involuntarily in a mental institution, William Sharpe Hospital.
• He is, by all accounts (such as in the Beckley, West Virginia Topix forums) a local laughingstock, the type of "character" whom everybody seems to know about and whom nobody takes very seriously.

In terms of Collins' personality, he has these strikes against him:

• Court documentation that Collins provided publicly indicates that a court-appointed psychologist evaluated Collins, determining him to be a "malignant narcissist" who suffers from "irrational grandiosity" and who is also bipolar.
• Collins is a bully and a coward, who has repeatedly made threats online and who attacks the families of those people with whom he is angry.
• Collins backs down from confrontations with adult men, such as Don Roley, but has shown a willingness to bully those he thinks are weaker than he is. He was charged with stalking and assault of a young girl in West Virginia, for example. While the court was not able to secure a conviction, a videotape of Collins confronting the girl in a Wal-Mart was apparently introduced into evidence -- and the behavior Collins exhibited was considered compelling enough by the prosecution that they included it.

There are plenty of other reasons that Ron Collins might not be the sort of person a woman finds attractive, but it should be obvious from what he, himself has said publicly that he has little chance of ever achieving a relationship with a real woman. He appears desperately to want one, going so far as to refer to a "girlfriend" who, to the best we can determine, does not exist. He is a sad little man who will probably live out his days alone and unloved. At 37 years old, he has never been married, never had children, and has no prospects for romance. He has accomplished nothing, contributed nothing to the world, and has no friends of any substance. (As evidence of that, Collins tried for a month to raise funds through a crowdfunding site to establish a martial arts school. His friends on social media contributed exactly zero dollars to the effort and Ron was reduced to claiming the whole thing was "bait" in some imaginary plot he supposedly concocted.)

Young girls are easier to manipulate than grown women. Women of legal age who are still teenagers fall into this category, too. A man who is afraid of women his own age, or simply cannot establish relationships with them, naturally gravitates to the very young. This may explain Collins' conviction for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, and it may explain the arrest for allegedly downloading child pornography. We can only speculate as to why those charges did not move forward, but we do know that there is a meticulous standard of evidence that must be met to prosecute a crime like that.

Collins loves to show off on the internet. He is very open about anything he thinks can impress others. When you consider this, the lack of any mention, photo or anything else that would indicate that he had a love in his life is proof enough that he has none. With a person like Collins, the second any woman gave him any attention he would be posting things about her 24/7. But that is not the case. Why, then, has he mentioned a girlfriend from time to time in the total absence of any real woman giving him the time of day?

One of the reasons may be that Collins is engaged in some very unsavory behavior. Don Roley seems to have really irritated Collins with a recent blog exposing what appears to be an attempt by Collins to "groom" a young girl. On social media, Collins posted about supposedly trying to help a young woman. In Collins' own words on social media,

I had the pleasure of knowing that I was able to talk to a child, who went through hell suffer from drug addiction herself, suffering from an abusive father and step father…

If God blesses me and I win my lawsuit against the State. I am going to bless others, beginning with a non-profit organization to help troubled teens out of poverty and toxic environment. A martial arts half way half house, to train leaders and to have those leaders attend college to become lawyers to work for another non-profit dealing with only police abuse cases as part of violations of a civil rights. Some of these kids will be running similar halfway houses in other parts of the state and other states. I will get other martial artists of other systems involved as well...

And that child I told this to... Oh she, her mother and father are going to help to help other families struggling with addiction and the associated problems attached with addiction.

They are not getting back togather but they are gonna lead the way for for daughter. There daughter is gonna help me with a program for other kids who have been sexually abused. Instead of feeling like they are being judged by talking to a councilor, they will be sharing stories... Helping each other heal. And help not just each other heal but other kids as well as the program spreads and know their are people who understand and can help them cope.

As such I am working on a program for parents and kids to deal with spotting sex abusers and dealing with the grooming behavior for these types. When dealing with said abused children much of our "martial arts" training with be based on a Christian Karate Program and yes scripture will be part of the training. Call it Christian Philosophy. However, that is my program and I ask each instructor reading this to develop their own program. This isn't just about me but our faith in whatever higher power ypu claim and helping people help themselves.

Since leaving jail and the mental hospital a couple of years ago, Collins has repeatedly gone to the well of Christianity in an attempt to make himself look better. Despite this appeal to "God," looking at the total of what Collins wrote is very disturbing. A person involved in education, trained in what to look for regarding the warning signs of child grooming, read that passage and commented to this effect:

I work in education. and the whole process he is describing is by the book grooming. I can't count how many hours i've spent in meetings learning to spot these specific behaviors. Especially given the past he has regarding this exact issue I find that post extremely alarming and raises more than a few red flags... Even if he had no history of [alleged] sexual misconduct, that post would still gain my attention. 

Given his history, that post is terrifying me, especially because most abusers don't believe they are abusers. They justify their behaviors and excuse themselves as an exception to the rule. (i.e... All the stuff about some children having gone through hell or lived through experiences many adults haven't.) What he's basically doing is creating a scenario in his head where this child is not a child. That is my fear. With that being said, i'm not a psychologist but his post, in conjunction with his documented history [of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor] are very troublesome.

Taking the above into account, combined with the lack of evidence Collins can point to for his accusations, it would appear that the recent attempts to portray Roley as a sexual abuser is a projection of his own darkest desires. Collins of course hates Roley for many reasons, but one of the biggest is the recent blog in which Roley lays out all the comments that are so indicative of someone grooming another young victim for sexual abuse.

We can perhaps expect more attempts by Collins to try to make this accusation stick. In the meantime, he will continue to post elaborate rationalizations for why Roley and all others who have confronted and humiliated him are, in Collins' mind, ducking him. The reality is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vLJB8xzX20

• Ron Collins had the chance to spar Don Roley in Kentucky, was invited to do so, and instead ran away.
• Ron Collins had the chance to spar another martial artist in Florida, was invited to do so, and instead ran away.
• All the elaborate rationalizations Ron spins now, and the bizarre and disgusting accusations he is making, are projection and attempts to obfuscate the reality of what has happened.

Ron Collins is not a martial artist. He is not a martial arts teacher. He holds no legitimate rank in any recognized martial arts system. He has no school. He has no actual students. He holds no job. He has few friends. He is, in short, the sort of person no one could love -- and whom no one would even want to spend time around.

This may explain why he's been reduced to taking pictures with his shirt up in public bathrooms... but we can only guess.

Ron Collins Posts a Digitally Altered Selfie

It is now the third week since Ron Collins announced that he was "done talking." Since that time, he has done nothing BUT talk, desperate to rewrite history after being humiliated by Don Roley in Kentucky. Collins, who fantasizes about being a martial artist and street fighter, tried and failed to challenge Roley -- only for his courage to fail him when both he and Roley were mere steps from mats on which Roley invited Collins to spar. Collins has been obsessed with his failure since that time. His solution? Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, at times engaging in reckless and malicious libel. He hates Roley so much that it is eating him alive... and he hates that Roley's friends make fun of Collins online.

In late June, 2017, Ron Collins published several seemingly libelous, creepy, and threatening videos about Don Roley. One of these videos was immediately taken down from YouTube for violating the site's terms of service. He then began uploading videos to another site in the hopes that the new site's TOS would be more lenient. The videos were immediately age-gated as "explicit content."

Bizarrely, Collins took a break from his non-stop campaign against Roley and his family to publish the following "selfie" to Facebook. To our knowledge, Collins has never before taken a photo of himself showing off his flabby gut or his sunken chest.

Observers familiar with Ron Collins were immediately curious. The photo looked strange, as if Ron Collins were taller than he normally appears. He is roughly 5'3" or thereabouts and generally quite heavy. Witnesses who encountered him in Florida reported that he appeared to be in poor health and wheezing with the effort of moving around. So who is this seemingly much taller, much thinner person, and why do the tiles in the wall next to him seem to be so distorted? Specifically, the tiles in the upper portion of the photo appear longer than the tiles in the lower portion of the photo.

Submitting the photo to an online analyzer, which checks for distortions created by photo editing programs, produced the following results:

In other words, the photo was likely edited in a freeware program like Gimp -- exactly the sort of software someone like Collins, who lives at or below poverty level, would tend to use. Compressing the photo to more "normal" dimensions and comparing the two produces the following image, in which Collins appears to be sucking in his gut in order to appear thinner:

The clincher, however, is found in comparing the size and apparent length of Ron's head (with its distinctly unattractive male-pattern baldness) to the many mugshots of Ron found online. His head is very round in shape -- not oblong as it appears in the seemingly edited photo.

All this begs the questions: Why would Collins suddenly be uploading altered pictures of himself, made to look thinner, in which he preens vainly in front of a mirror with his shirt up? Why is he doing it in a public bathroom? We know that Collins is desperately poor. Is he, in fact, homeless? This would explain the bathroom antics and also why he changed his address in his court case to his PO Box: he does not have a stable residence address and probably couch-surfs with whomever takes pity on him. Stripping down in a public bathroom is the sort of thing someone reduced to turning tricks for pocket change would do. Has Collins sunk so low? We cannot say.

More to the point, it says a lot that Collins thought he could get away with this deception. He must know that anyone who meets him in real life would not be fooled by this distorted photo. Clearly, he spends much more time and effort on his fictional Internet persona (calling himself "Sensei Collins" in the third person even though he has never earned that rank) than on improving himself in real life. He must have very few real friends, and likely encounters almost no actual people, preferring instead to reinvent himself with Internet fantasies. This photo is simply a testament to that fact.

The Common Denominator in Ron Collins' Woes

Ron Collins seemed surprised when the members of the Black Dragon Fighting Society stepped aside and let him make the choice to fight Don Roley or not. Collins acted very brave as long as they were between him and Roley. He made a big show of moving toward Roley when he knew they were there to hold him back. But when the choice was his to fight or not, he fled and claimed that he would rather sue Roley and many others instead.

So what has happened with this lawsuit? The answer is, nothing really.

As Collins tells it, first he will sue the prosecutors that sent him to jail and to a mental hospital. He claims to want 25 million dollars. That will clear his name and prove that he is not insane and all his legal troubles are the result of a conspiracy against him by the police, a local motorcycle gang and perhaps the emperor of Japan. The child pornography arrest, the dropped charges for terroristic threats, and all his other charges and legal hassles are all bogus according to him -- and that will be proved, he says, when he gets his day in court and clears his name. He seems to ask people to put off judgement on him based on his many arrests (and on the significant time he has spent in jail and in William Sharpe mental hospital) until things are settled in this first lawsuit.

Then he claims that he will sue others who have exposed him on the internet, including Roley.

One would think that anyone who thought a lawsuit would clear his name would work hard on it. Indeed, Collins has used the excuse that he was too busy working industriously on his legal case to follow through with his own numerous fight challenges. But no one has been served with any papers at all. Not a single person. He went to the trouble of filing some papers, and gleefully put them up on a blog to show he was pursuing the lawsuit. But after that, nothing at all has happened.

As noted, Collins is a bully and a coward. He has tried to use threats to cause his victims to worry since direct action by him would be useless. His threatening of Roley’s family is an example, but he has also tried to use the threat of a lawsuit to achieve the same aims. He talks and talks about a lawsuit, reminding people that they can expect to be in court, but he never goes through with any action.

No lawyer will take his case, not even the most sleazy ambulance chaser. He claims to be representing himself. That is telling in many ways. For one, it shows he has no case to speak of. Some of the worst lawyers will take any case with any chance of success and then try to negotiate a settlement instead of taking it to a court of law. That even the most money hungry lawyer would refuse this case means it has no merit at all and would be just a waste of time.

Also, it means that Collins is not eager to get the case in a court of law. He has been talking about lawsuits for years, and nothing has been done to move things to where the issues can be settled. That is because Collins must know that he has no case. A defeat in a courtroom would put the final nail in the coffin of his claims that he was set up -- that he isn’t an insane petty criminal, honest.

As long as the court case is somewhere in the future, there is no final decision as to whether he was set up by a cabal of conspirators. With no resolution to this neverending threat of a lawsuit, this conspiracy (which exists only in his mind) can remain his excuse for anything he does not do and everything he fails in doing. It is therefore in Collins’ interest to keep talking about the lawsuit, but never take action on it.

At this point, the only question is what excuse Collins will use once it is clear that there will be no lawsuit. Will he keep trying to say it is coming? Or will he make an excuse as to why he had to drop the idea altogether?

In any case, one can be sure that Collins will continue to use the excuse of being busy with the lawsuit when he wants to duck something. Nothing will ever enter a courtroom to be tried. This whole, sad fantasy will simply become yet another in a string of failures. These failures characterize Collins' life. He lives in a fantasy world in which he is a "sensei" and some kind of ninja master, a person of power and authority. The sad reality that he is a poverty-stricken, couch-surfing loser is something he will spend the rest of his life trying to avoid thinking about. Collins is, sadly, the common denominator in all his problems, and he will never be able to run away from this fact no matter how hard he tries.

"I Meant To Do That" -- The Ron Collins Shuffle

Today marks two weeks since Ron Collins wrote that on his blog he was “done talking” about the person he seems to hate most in the world, respected martial artist Don Roley. Since that time, he has done nothing but talk.

Collins seems absolutely obsessed with Roley, in fact -- most likely because Roley utterly humiliated him in Kentucky last October, forcing Collins to come to grips with the difference between reality and Collins' fantasies. Ron Collins desperately wants to be seen as a person of authority and power. He is neither, and lives mired in poverty. He is, in fact, practically homeless, so there is obviously a note of jealousy that tinges his obsession. Roley, and the other people in the circles where Roley travels, represent everything Ron wants to be.

He has whined at length on his blog about how he'll never have a family and a "normal life." Seeing family men and successful martial artists enjoying their lives obviously pains him, as he lives hand to mouth off government payouts and appears in every video wearing one of three shirts that he seems to own. It is a sad life, and no doubt Ron's fantasies of being a ninja-mind-control-master, a "sensei" (a title he loves to apply to himself in the third person on his Shadow Warrior Press page on Facebook), are what make each miserable day more bearable for him.

The fact that Ron hates everyone who has more than he has, or who has accomplished more than he has, and the fact that he is the sort of coward who would threaten a person's family out of that jealous, is key to understanding Collins and his tactics. He is a bully, and most bullies are cowards. Several people have expressed concern about his threats, but no one really should take them seriously.

To look into Collins’ mind, look at the video of his appearance at the seminar by Don Roley (which Collins uploaded to his own YouTube channel believing that it made him look good). When other members of the Black Dragon Fighting Society are between Roley and Collins, Ron makes a big show of wanting to fight Roley, knowing his buddies will hold him back. But when Roley outmaneuvers Collins’ plan to get someone else to fight in his place, his body language shows he is in terror. He begins hugging himself in an extremely obvious and awkward way. He makes an excuse that he would rather sue and flees as soon as can while thinking he is saving face. He then obsessed over his humiliating defeat the entire drive back to West Virginia, going so far as to upload a video while still on the road.

That is Collins in a nutshell: Act tough when you are safe, but never actually follow through.

Collins has threatened Roley’s family. He has tried to be cagey about it, but dozens of people have read what he wrote and no one besides Collins take his statements as anything other than a threat. As Collins tries to word it, Roley has ducked him and so he has no choice but to show up on Roley’s doorstep to challenge him. While he tries to claim this is not a threat to Roley's family, he goes out of his way to make references to them in the same sentence as he talks about violence. Furthermore, he keeps trying to portray Roley as "someone who will not protect his family." There is no reason to couch it that way unless Ron wants to make it clear that he is the threat from which Roley must protect his family.

Obviously, this would be very serious in a legal sense IF Collins was to follow through. But he has never followed through. Not once. Ron Collins has been posting to martial arts boards, forums, and groups on the Internet since the year 2000 if not earlier. In all that time he has repeatedly lied about his background and his manufactured ninja style. He has lied about the black belts he supposedly holds. He has lied about his military service (claiming for years to have been "Force Recon" in the Marines, among other things).

He has repeatedly challenged and been challenged to matches with martial artists sick of his bluster, yet found a way to back out each and every time. In Kentucky in 2016 he was a dozen steps away from stepping onto a mat with Don Roley and was invited to do so with four people to back him up and videotape the match... and he refused and ran. In Florida in 2017, he was face to face with another martial artist whom he had repeatedly insulted and challenged and was yet again given the opportunity to spar then and there. He instead climbed back into his little jalopy of a car and rode away, only returning to making challenges and fight demands when he was safely at home and far away from anyone who could take him up on the offer.

Ron's pattern of behavior in all cases, not just with Roley, has been to talk tough but flee any actual chance at violence. He has never gotten in a cage to fight with anyone. The only person we know he may have physically attacked was a young girl he was threatening in a Wal-Mart -- video footage that was shown at Ron's trial for stalking and assault. Sadly, he was acquitted of those charges; the consensus seems to be that the trial occurred to far after the events in question, and the girl was herself not a credible witness. Ron's history of arrests for stalking and violence speaks for itself, however.

Ron never fights an adult male on equal terms unless he thinks he can surprise them (such as the police officer who was forced to put Ron on the floor when Ron became irate dealing with a court case). In any case where Ron might face someone who was prepared to fight back, Ron has found an excuse to avoid going through with it and later tried to spin things as a "win" for him. In fact, no matter what Ron does, no matter how he fails, no matter who humiliates him by taking him up on his constant fight challenges, he always claims later that his failures were all bait in masterful acts of ninja-mind-control-manipulation. In other words, no matter what he does and no matter how hard he fails, he "meant to do that" no matter how silly this sounds.

Some of Roley’s friends were concerned enough to contact the police in Beckley, West Virginia, where Ron lives. The police there know him and are aware of his antics. In fact, they have been sent screen captures of each and every one of his threats, and those threats have been passed on to the prosecutor in Raleigh County. No one in Beckley seems to take Ron very seriously, however.

Collins can’t deal with Roley in person, so he seeks to do harm to him with online threats. But since there is no chance of Ron showing up (nor would the car Ron is driving likely make it from West Virginia to Colorado), it is only cause for laughter. As more and more time goes by, those that were concerned by Ron now realize his "I meant to do that" patented verbal shuffle is just posturing. Collins is now backtracking, saying that it won’t be this month, nor will it be next month that he confronts Roley at Roley's home. Maybe it will be sometime after that, according to him. Those that know Collins expect this to go the way of the lawsuit that he threatened to bring against Roley as he fled the seminar months ago. Nothing is going to happen, nothing ever will happen, and Ron will continue making threats online as long as these bring him attention.

When Collins made his threat to follow up on Roley’s doorstep, he evidently was not aware that there already  was a seminar by Roley scheduled in August in Maryland. Collins excuse for threatening to show up on Roley’s doorstep was that he could not reach him elsewhere to challenge him. Well, now that there is a place a lot closer but not involving Roley’s family, Collins is making excuses. He doesn't want to go to Maryland, he says; he wants to go to Colorado. This is all part of the Ron Collins Shuffle. He wants to make threats and then do anything BUT give an adult male the chance to fight him on equal terms.

Collins wrote this on his blog recently:

“I don't care what anyone thinks... I posted my blog I am done talking June 5th and Don posted his event in DC for August, so why set an event in August unless he is either a) avoiding me or b) hiding behind his family…”

If you fail to see logic behind the statement, you are not alone. Maybe Collins did not know that the first announcement of the seminar was on May 18th, so it could not have been set up just to deal with Collins’ threat. But Roley made a video telling Ron that if he wanted to do anything he would be at the seminar. How can that be avoiding Collins? And if Roley set up a seminar close to Collins but far from his family, how can that be hiding behind his family?

Collins believes that by repeatedly threatening Don Roley's family, he can make Roley look bad. He has tried to say that Roley is somehow involving his own family, but this is absurd. Collins had the chance to confront Roley in Kentucky and could not do it. Collins wants to do anything but confront Roley again in person because he has seen with his own eyes that Roley considers him a joke. Bullies hate people who do not fear them. Collins does not want to deal with Roley in person because this will only humiliate him again.

Ultimately, Collins is a sad little man reduced to trying to intimidate people from behind the safety of his computer. No one who knows him actually thinks that he will follow through with his threats. That is not to say that a few people aren’t documenting the pages and pages that Collins has written in case he does snap. For example, if by some miracle Ron Collins did go to Colorado (just as if he went to the home states of the various other people he seems to obsess in hatred over), this will set in motion various legal wheels that will result in Collins being charged with serious crimes. He would be seen as a valid threat in that case. But while he stays safely in West Virginia he cannot reach Roley’s family and is being treated by the legal system as just another crazed lunatic trying to act brave after his humiliation at Roley's hands.

As long as Ron stays safely in Beckley, West Virginia, there is no cause for alarm. Ron has lived in that small town his entire life. He is considered a local joke and will never leave. He will live out his life there and eventually pass away in obscurity. No one will mourn him, assuming his frail, elderly mother has already passed. He will be utterly, completely alone, and the only testament to his life will be the countless Internet posts he made in which he was essentially screaming into the wind, demanding that people notice him and take him seriously.

No one should take Ron Collins seriously. Instead, they should see him as the grand comedy he represents. But they should also view him with pity... as this is someone who will never amount to anything in life and, sadly, who is very aware of that fact. But... perhaps he "meant to do that," too. Perhaps he meant to live his life as a joke. If that's true, it would be the one time he has ever been successful in any of his endeavors.

Things You Shouldn't Say Online, Part Two

On June fifth, Ron Collins wrote a blog titled, “I am done talking.” In it, he vowed to travel to Colorado to confront Don Roley on his doorstep. In the time since he wrote that he was finished talking, Collins has written multiple blogs  attacking Roley (which, when printed, are tens of pages long each), videos doing the same (one in which he sounds hoarse and tired, as if the strain of his delusions is getting to him) and typing literally dozens of pages of comments about how he hates Roley and is going to go sue him (either before or after he travels to his home).

In the years that Collins has been active on the internet, he has made numerous threats to go see someone and do violence. Not once has it gone all the way to exchanging blows. There is always an excuse from Collins to avoid such conflict, or an accusation that the other person is to blame for his inaction. It has caused him to be a subject of scorn and mirth by thousands of people.

When Collins faced Roley from behind four members of the Black Dragon Fighting Society in October 2016 in Kentucky, he probably did not expect Roley to outmaneuver him with the simple statement that Roley wasn’t going to fight anyone else first. Up until that point, Ron had acted very brave, pretending to want to come to blows and having to be restrained by those with him. But when his companions said that he was free to fight, he changed tack and vowed revenge of a legal sort and retreated as fast as he could. It was a complete humiliation in public. He has been wrestling with that humiliation ever since, desperate to somehow spin what happened into a moral victory for himself. He has projected his cowardice onto others, accusing them of all manner of imagined crime... and still, his failure to step out onto the mats when given the opportunity to spar Roley has been posted online for the world to see. He can't accept it. He can't deal with it. It is eating him up.

In short, it broke him.

Since last October, Ron has been reduced to putting out blog after blog, video after video in an attempt to try to tear down Roley and somehow convince people that he did not back down from the chance to fight. His entire life is spent on the internet with the obsession of somehow doing damage to Roley (and the long list of other people Ron seems to hate). What do all of Ron's imagined enemies have in common? They are all people who have challenged the way Ron sees himself. They are all people who have pointed out that Ron does not have the experience, skill, temperament, or background to be a martial arts teacher. Yet Ron continues to refer to himself in the third person as "Sensei" on his Facebook "Shadow Warrior Press" page, desperate to be seen as a person of authority.

Collins has threatened Roley online. In the comment section of youtube he said that unless Roley agreed to meet him on neutral ground that he would cripple him in his living room in front of his family.

This is a serious thing, if Collins was actually going to make an effort to go through with it. The consensus is, it is mere internet bluster. Collins has a long history of it, and there is little reason to believe that he will follow through now when he has fled every chance to face someone on equal ground.

The excuse that Collins gives for running from the fight in Kentucky is that it would cause him to be sent to jail and not Roley. And yet he stood aside as Stephen Day asked for the same type of fight. He quotes a law that is not applicable in a situation where both parties consent to the confrontation. And Roley went out of his way to write a blog and post a video making it clear that Collins would not be an intruder if he came to follow through with his threat of fighting him. In such a situation, either both parties are at fault or neither can be held accountable.

Collins is trying to hide behind the law and the sickness of Roley’s wife. She has cancer and in a video Roley made it clear that any conflict had to be done in such a way that there were no legal troubles. It had to be off the street and both sides had to make it perfectly clear that it was consensual and thus no one really faced any risk of jail. In the video, he explained that it was up to him to take care of her and his children for a while after each treatment of chemo and he would not risk not being there by some fight on the street and risking Collins trying anything like claiming it was he who was attacked.

Now Collins is trying to use that against Roley in an attempt to save face. His calls for neutral ground reference the fact that they might both spend several months in jail afterwards. He knows Roley will not do that, so he presses his call because he knows he is safe from a response. He is counting on Roley caring more for his family than actually taking Collins up on his offer. This allows Collins to look tough and portray Roley as backing down.

But Roley already has a seminar set for Maryland in August. It is much closer to Collins that Colorado. He has put out a video saying that if Collins wants to talk, fight or whatever, he can do it with him there.

Obviously, Collins is already making excuses as to why he won’t confront Roley there.
Despite the escalation of threats by Collins, no one seems to seriously think he will go on the road. He has refused to give any dates when he might go, and is expected to instead try to milk it for as long as possible before coming up with another excuse to not face anyone. While he stays in West Virginia, he does not have the ability to harm Roley’s family. So he can’t be considered a viable threat. Instead, he is just another poor obsessed lunatic spending his entire day on the internet trying to damage someone without exposing himself to danger.

Things You Shouldn't Say Online, Part One

It has been eight months since Ronald Collins’ humiliation in Lexington. At that time, his plan to hide behind four members of the Black Dragon Fighting society failed and he was forced to turn and run, vowing legal revenge over his shoulder as he scurried away. What has he been up to? The simple answer is trying to convince the world that he somehow won that encounter while staying safely away from anything that might cause him injury.

While not willing to get on the mat with Don Roley, Collins hates the idea of the world knowing how scared he was. So he has tried to muddy the waters as much as possible. This is actually a long standing tactic of his.

During a recent exchange in the comment section on Youtube, Ron outlined his strategy with the following statement.

"See as long as his "Victory" is in dispute then Don Roley hasn't won shit, hasn't proven shit and hasn't backed me down from shit..."

There it is. Collins wishes to keep things up in the air and not determined so he has a face-saving excuse for running away at every chance to fight someone.

In the legal field, Collins is a convicted criminal and former mental patient. That is a fact. But Collins is trying to dispute that, so that it may not be clear to some. One of his most common excuses to back out of anything is that he is busy with a lawsuit. He says that lawsuit against the prosecutor that sent him to jail and the mental hospital will reverse his situation, proving that it was all a setup in a vast conspiracy. He tells people to put off judgement about him until the suit is settled and the truth comes out.

You would think that someone who really thought that a lawsuit would clear his name would work very hard to get it out of the way as quickly as he could. Instead, virtually nothing has been done. For months, Collins did nothing but talk. When enough people were making comments that he hadn’t done a damn thing about the lawsuit, he finally went out and did the paperwork, eagerly putting them up on his blog. It was only last week that it was reveled that the prosecutor he says he wishes to sue has not been served with any papers. Without that action, nothing can go forward. That is indeed what Collins seems to want, since as long as he can say he is preparing for a lawsuit, he can maybe put off the inevitable defeat in a court of law. Obviously, we don’t expect him to make any moves to bring the case to trial. He gets too much out of the appearance that it is all in dispute.

His relationship with Barron Sheppard is much the same and part of his pattern of trying to keep things so they are settled and clear. Sheppard was willing to fight Ron, and made several moves prior to the seminar in Kentucky to get Ron into a ring. Ron ducked them all. A few months ago, Ron made a trip down to Florida to talk to the fight promotor that knows Sheppard. Sheppard was called and showed up at the office. There he proceeded to dress down Collins as Collins meekly stood there, seemingly too frightened to even look him in the eye.

Collins was told to take a few months in order to get his physical done. Nothing can be done to schedule anything without a physical. As far as we know, Collins never got one. He never contacted the fight promoter after that personal meeting, but instead went on his blog to predict that Sheppard would pull out. On June first he declared victory because the fight promoter never contacted him, even though it was Ron's responsibility to send the physicals so that the event could be scheduled. 

Last is Collins' relationship with Roley. After running in fear from Roley, Ron has been very active in trying to insult and tear him down by means of Ron's blogs. He hasn’t be successful at all. Three weeks ago, Roley set up an outdoor event and made a point of letting Collins know that he was welcome to show up if he really wanted to challenge Roley to a fight. Collins violently rejected that idea. But just last week, with the previous event safely out of the way, Collins started making noise that he was challenging Roley to a fight.

This will be dealt with in further articles here. But the short version is that Collins appears to be threatening Roley’s family if Roley does not agree to meet him, even though Collins has been given numerous chances to fight Roley in a sanctioned sparring event. Ron's attempts to intimidate Roley are not going well... but do raise questions about whether he is making terroristic threats online, something he was previously arrested and committed to a mental hospital for doing.

So that is the basic strategy of Collins to try to save face. He will not fight anyone in person or in the court room. His plan is to keep things from ever being settled like that since he would lose, and until that time he can argue with the dim witted that make up his only friends that he really isn’t a criminal, coward, etc. At this point, no one expects Collins to drive out to Colorado as he loudly tries to threaten to do, nor go forward with the lawsuit. In both cases, the result would be a very big loss for him and no further viable excuses for what he is.

We will continue with a series of stories giving each aspect of the pathetic story of Ron Collins here in the future.