Ex-UFC Fighter Arrested After working as Enforcer for Drug Ring

Rob Broughton, a former UFC heavyweight champion is now serving eight and a half years in prison, after he was sentenced in the United Kingdom for his involvement in a drug ring that possessed million of dollars and cocaine.

According to the Liverpool Echo, Broughton was arrested open connection to a criminal drug ring run by brothers John and Alan Tobin, who has been found to have supplied enormous amounts of drugs to various gangs in and around England. While their main buisness lies in the dealings of cocaine, it has been proven that the drug ring also dealt in heroin, cannabis and ketamine.

Broughton was convicted after he worked as an “enforcer” or the “muscle” fir the Tobin brothers. He was responsible for transporting large amounts of cash and collecting debts from people who owed them money.

It is estimated that he has moved, roughly $20 million in cash and over $41 million in U.S dollars - while also, as a side hustle, working for Anthony and Leon Cullen, who according to police, ran a heavily armed drug gang, In central England.

The drug ring ran between 2016 and 2020m as police finally stopped a massive shipment of cocaine that was reportedly valued at around, $20 million. While he never came into contact with the drugs, he was in charge of collecting debts from people.

Broughton confessed to his role in the drug running operation but despite his attorney’s best efforts to classify his crimes as money laundering, the judge in the case did not agree.

Ultimately, Broughton was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison with Judge Garrett Byrne adding “I’ve no doubt you have a keen sense of letting your family down and I hope when you’re released you have their best interests uppermost in your mind.”

Broughton fought in the UFC three times between 2010 and 2011 while earning a 1-2 record overall. He last competed in 2015 after spending much of his career training out of the legendary Wolfslair Gym, which is the same academy where notable fighters such as Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Cheick Kongo previously called home.