John Allan, the owner of Boston’s Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center published a statement on his Facebook page Friday to address the gym’s association with the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. A 2010 photo essay in Boston University’s graduate school magazine described Tsamaev training for “national Golden Gloves competitions” in an effort to qualify “for the next U.S. Olympic team and become a naturalized American.” That article said Tsamaev “works out at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center.” In his statement Allan made clear, Tsamaev was never an official member of Wai Kru.
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