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.
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