MMA pro Julian Wallace chokes fiancee over wrong noodles
EXCLUSIVE: A high-profile mixed martial arts brawler put his fiancee in a choke hold because she brought the wrong noodles home for dinner.
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A MIXED martial arts brawler put his fiancee in a choke hold because she brought the wrong noodles home for dinner.
Victim Jessy Jess, also a MMA professional, said the vicious April 28 attack could have been much worse if she wasn’t a “trained fighter”.
Julian Brave Wallace, 28, pleaded guilty in Newtown Local Court last week to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of intentionally choking with recklessness.
Ms Jess told The Daily Telegraph that she was grateful it happened to her because another person who was not a trained fighter could have been hurt more.
On the night of the assault, Ms Jess arrived home 15 minutes late from work because she had stopped off to get Wallace dinner.
When she came home with something different to what he wanted, Wallace — who fights under the name Julz the Jackal — started to yell.
He grabbed her work bag, pulling a T-shirt from it and accused her of infidelity. Enraged, Wallace then kicked Ms Jess in the head while wearing heavy Timberland boots.
He demanded her engagement ring and threatened to break her fingers to get it back. Ms Jess raced around her Newtown studio apartment trying to pack her things, but he followed her.
He hit her on the face and threw her back on to the bed, using MMA moves to put pressure on her face and neck.
He chased her around the apartment, kneeing her in the ribs, and dropped her to the ground before choking her.
“I kept tapping him on the arm because I could feel that I was going to lose consciousness; he pulled tighter and I thought that would be the end,” she said.
Managing to break free, Ms Jess threw a kick and knocked Wallace out and dialled frantically for police. Wallace was eventually cuffed and taken to Newtown Police Station.
The pair met on the Gold Coast and, during a brief separation, Ms Jess moved to Sydney. Wallace followed soon after.
Ms Jess has now moved to America to pursue her MMA dreams.
Wallace was previously known as Julian Dean Rabaud before changing his name by deed-poll.
He was caught in a social media storm last month after the barber shop he manages in Newtown — Hawleywood’s Barber Shop — came under fire for a no-women policy.
He will be sentenced in Newtown Local Court on December 7.