Competing in the light-flyweight class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Cuban wrestler Alexis Vila Perdomo was expected to do well, having already medaled at world championship events and the Pan American Games. He ultimately took home a bronze medal, and after the Olympics, he defected to the United States. After serving three years in prison on an alleged attempted terrorism charge — he'd crashed a car into a Florida airport building — he switched sports, from wrestling to mixed martial arts, building a respectable record of 15 wins and seven defeats.

In 2011, the murdered body of Camilo Salazar was discovered in a remote section of the Florida Everglades, beaten, bound, brutalized, and semi-burned, according to Miami's Local10. Investigators ascertained that Salazar had been carrying on an affair with Jenny Marin, wife of Presidente Supermarket tycoon Manuel Marin, who had arranged the murder. One of the men who helped Marin execute the plan: Perdomo, convicted in 2019 of conspiracy to commit murder, according to NBC Miami. 

The former athlete received a 15-year prison sentence, less than his associate, ex-fight promoter Roberto Isaac, who got life behind bars.

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