David Lang; MMA/military phony
Christopher sends us a link on our Facebook page from Police Gazette about David Lang (aka David Lang Da Silva) who has presented himself as some sort of martial arts expert as well as an Afghanistan veteran with the 101st Airborne Division.
In addition to claiming the phony credentials through Mr. Ismail, Lang was also presenting himself to students and other members of the Ithaca business public as a person who had grown up in Brazil with an American mother from Brooklyn. Lang told students he had first moved to the United States at age 19, already a BJJ brown belt, and that he had enlisted in the United States Army and served two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the 101st Infantry Division.
Every one of these claims was quickly discredited, as Lang was unable to provide any evidence to show he had done any actual BJJ training in his life, aside from watching YouTube videos and then imitating what he had seen to other people who also lacked any real BJJ training. Lang was quickly found to be an American-born citizen who had been home schooled by his Christian fundamentalist mother in McGraw, NY. It was established that he in fact had no military background whatsoever.
It’s a pretty long article, so I’m not going to C&P the whole thing. You should click over. Some of you will understand the martial arts stuff better than I do – it doesn’t mention Google-foo, so it all goes over my head. But it looks like he’s operating a MMA school in Cortland, New York.
Category: Phony soldiers
Pushing muh broom along the gutter*whistling*…Who is this assclown, again? He is begging for an ass whipping by one of those Brazilian dudes.
Even though he was home schooled, I bet as a child his mother put him on Ritalin and gave him participation trophies.
No Green Beret/Ranger/sooperdooperseekritsqwirrel claims? Regardless, he’s still a bed wetting douchenozzle! I paid my dues and lost a couple of friends in A-stan, I’d love to spar with him and see if he is what he claims to be!
Ithaca, huh? Isn’t that a big hippie town, where if they did run into someone who actually served, they wouldn’t know it even if they bit them in their patchouli-smelling asses?
Maybe Tim Kennedy should go and offer to teach him a few lessons in the cage.
Oooh! MMA? And he isn’t even slightly cute.
And there’s some extremely Freudian about that glass vessel he’s holding in his paw. It looks like one of those big-bowl vases you’d buy at Michael’s for fruit-and-flower arrangements, but it’s full of something that looks suspiciously like cappucino(?), and he’s drinking it with a straw.
Yeah, I’d guess Mommy had him on the faucet too long and never really weaned him.
For those not in the know: his MMA claims are so grandiose and ridiculous, that they basically equate to him claiming that Audie Murphy taught him how to be a Medal of Honor recipient, and he then put that knowledge to use in Vietnam, where he killed uncle Ho by choking him to death with his bare hands. Now he will also teach you how to be a rampaging badass on the battlefield at his Extreme SEAL Experience training school, which has been endorsed by Son Shipley, for the low, low price of (x dollars) per month.
The problem is that the guy basically has a fake Son Shipley web presence to back his asinine story up.
Apparently my phone auto corrects Don to Son.
Think this guy is a former friend of a friend. Will talk to my friend in an hour or so and ask him. My friend and I served in the 101st, and he was there for three combat tours over 5-6 years, so Dave would know a little about the Screaming Eagles through hearsay.
I’ll post again later if this is the guy I think it is.
@8 I thought it was an Asian thing, as in Anjin Son Shipley…
I guess his Christian fundamentalist mother forgot to teach him about the thou shalt not lie Commandment.
Jeebus that was a long article. I can sum him up in one short 4 letter word: TURD!
Not counting the exclamation point…
Weak.
And I know tough guys drink margaritas. Just ask Phildo.
Also, I love the irony of him rocking the “chinstrap”. I wonder if he “buckles” it when he dominates a cock and set of nuts.
Maggot.
Hate to say it but usually guys wearing “Tap=Out” shirts are douchebags. Taking the name “Silva” is a shit move too, I would like to see Wandelei or Anderson Silva take him to task.
Another big side niche of stolen valor, the fake martial arts types.
Yep, same guy. I met him a couple of times years ago but never really knew him. My friend used to be in a band with him and they were once close friends. He was told this jackass had started claiming he served in the Rakkasans with us, and also that he started claiming to have been raised in Brazil. He hasn’t talked to the guy for years, though, since this guy started spreading lies.
Not another one………
*Walks off mumbling something about the Dark Carnival*
I just read the backstory.
What a scum-sucking sack of shit.
I can only imagine he opened the “school” because he likes close “contact”.
This dude is a disease and should have no issue obtaining employment with All Points Logistics.
He has a ring in the picture.
Think this failure is still married?
I’m the author of the linked story. I love the comment speculating that he was on Mom’s tit too long. My next update will feature a close-to-the-family source confirming that he was breast fed until he was a toddler and slept in Mommy’s bed until age 7.
Any update on this turd?
Only in the last 5 years has Cortland, New York recieved running water, electricity and sewers.
The telegraph still works well enough to keep!
There are more cows than people up there … cut them some slack!
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Briggs, Thanks for stopping by … good stuff!
@19.
Actually, I would like to know more about his “penpal” relationship (if it is true) with that pedophile Hermes clown.
I am all but convinced that this maggot takes it in the ass.
I believe it would be fun to grab that glass and smash his face with it.
I wonder if he has won any fights?
Slime.
There is a god chance he never fought at all in a real full contact fight. Phoneys seem to be that way.
The only thing this guy has fought is a case of anal herpes deposited by some male trash he picked up for an overnighter.