Ron's opponent is one Mike Pesesko, the owner of RKM Training, a personal training company in Myrtle Beach. Pesesko is 5 foot 5 and 145 pounds, while Collins is 5 foot 4 and around 185 pounds (although he claims to have lost weight since that measurement). The two are more or less the same age, in their 30s. Pesesko is a kickboxer and personal trainer who has a white belt in BJJ; Collins has, for all intents and purposes, no training at all. The bout, should it occur, will be truly interesting.
Right now, Collins appears to have traveled by train to somewhere in Virginia a week early, to appear in a location where he is not expected for an event that is not yet scheduled. Your guess is as good as ours as to why that's the case. There is much speculation as to whether Collins will show up for his scheduled match with "Icy Mike" Pesesko.
Collins' participation at the MixedMartialArts.com discussion forums have been a bit... troubling, to say the least. While the participants here can't know of the extensive history that Ron has harassing and threatening people and their families online, they have been entirely dismissive of Ron's arrest record and bizarrely encouraging of Ron himself. Infamous progressive podcaster Bob Carson, a far-left internet personality who is very chummy with Frank Dux and Radford "Ashida Kim" Davis, interviewed both Collins and Pesesko on separate evenings.
The shows were dreadful, fraught with the usual production issues that have plagued Carson's show for the entirety of its online run. As Carson wheezed into the microphone or the broadcast dropped out entirely for long swaths of dead air, listeners could hear Collins and Pesesko drinking in the attention. If nothing else, the Ron Collins/Icy Mike bout will be a testament to the arrogant narcissism that characterizes people willing to fight strangers from the Internet... if the fight happens at all.
A week out from the bout, there is still great doubt as to whether the match will indeed take place. Collins made an appearance at, as ThePinkman on YouTube called it, "homosexual dating app" Bullshido.net, where the site's resident legal expert took apart Collins' claims of having skirted a legal trap when he backed down from Don Roley in Kentucky in 2016. As he typically does, Collins quickly abandoned that discussion thread, but not before insulting the participants at MixedMartialArts.com's "OtherGround" discussion forum. These are, of course, the same people Collins has been using for attention since using a proxy to post about his trip to Colorado to menace Don Roley's family.
It is worth remembering that, no matter what happens, there is real danger that Collins will only add Pesesko to the list of people about whom he obsesses. In recent weeks he has become increasingly brazen about the threats he makes against his perceived enemies and their loved ones -- threats that include implied arson, assault, and murder.
Law enforcement in West Virginia has, of course, been notified. No matter what happens on the 26th, though, it seems the long, sad misadventure that is Ron Collins' antics over the last couple of years will slowly fade from public memory, perhaps leaving behind only a viral video of Ron getting beaten... and perhaps leaving nothing at all.
Collins has himself built up his appearance at Street Beefs as something that somehow redeems his claims as long as he simply shows up.
We will see, or we won't. No matter what happens, though, it is unlikely Ron Collins will go on to become a productive member of the martial arts community online.
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