Fake Black Belt

Message from : Mike Palladino
I never really went into detail about how bizarre of a situation it really was.
He worked as a line cook at a local strip club, and told the owner he was a black belt in BJJ and wondered if he could transfer from the kitchen to security. The owner upon hearing this, not only transferred Jay, but he made him the head of security.
In addition to this the owner helped Jay open his school and get his program off the ground. In return, Jay promoted the owner to Purple belt after a whopping 3 weeks of training!
I can go super in-depth, but I’ll keep it short for now ;-)
To answer your questions, Jay closed down the very next day. He called me the night I busted him to apologize for the confusion, but he was still adamant that he was a blackbelt(this was before the video was released). The next morning, I released the video and it went viral. Jay called a meeting amongst his students and closed down the academy that day.

The student who was in the video, whom I had never met before going to Jays, was accosted upon arriving at the meeting. Jay and the other students thought that he set them up.

Jay had about 10-15 students including kids and adults. The majority of his students were employees of the strip club(none were strippers), a few cooks, two valet boys, and the rest of the security team. However there were 3-4 students who had no affiliation to the strip club, they just lived near his gym and they came to me after everything went down.

The employees stood by him, saying he wasn’t a fraud, and as one fellow said to me “Jay ain’t no fraud, cuz I ain’t no bitch. Jay beat me and made me look like a bitch, so he ain’t no fraud” I kept it civil and just laughed.

It was kind of a sad ending for Jay. Marlboro, is a small village where everyone knows everyone. So when the video went viral, he lost a lot of respect from the locals. He was fired from his job and began working as a cook again in a town called New Paltz. From there he went back to Brazil.

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Marcos Soares Marcão
I am writing this message to inform you that Jay Queiroz is not and never was a black belt at Gfteam... he was actually my student until he got his purple belt. He published and informed that he got his black belt in New York from the América Top Team, but he insists on putting on his profile that he is a black belt at Gfteam. I have tried several times to contact him without success. I believe he has blocked me... but I have already contacted Master Julio Cesar Pereira and he is aware of what happened... I apologize to all black belts for being a former student of this tremendous farce using the team's name.