Tapouts Charles Mask Lewis Dies In High Speed Traffic Accident
Written by Vytas
Thursday, 12 March 2009
TMZ has confirmed the owner of the TapouT MMA clothing line died this last morning when his ultra-rare $300,000 Ferrari crashed into a light pole, ripping the car in half.
TMZ has learned Charles Lewis Jr. — aka “Mask” — was driving his
Ferrari Modena in Orange County, Calif. around 1:00 AM this morning
when cops say it “left the roadway, hit the curb, took out a light
pole.”
“Mask” was declared dead at the scene. A female passenger — who was
ejected from the crash — was taken to a local hospital, but we’re told
she’s in bad shape.
Cops believe “Mask” was racing a guy in a Porsche at the time of
the crash, and authorities have since arrested the guy they believe was
driving the other car. That man — Jeffrey David Kirby — is being held
on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter.
Charles “Mask Lewis and Dan “Punkass” Caldwell founded the Tapout
clothing company in 1997. The company made a name for itself sponsoring
up and coming fighters and events. Mask was a true pioneer of the
sport, he will be missed…
he was a good guy, he helped out a lot of amateurs begin their career. it is a tough loss for mma and for everything else. RIP mask
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... written by "V",
March 12, 2009
thats what you get for drinking, driving and speeding!
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Lady written by Kurama,
March 13, 2009
Never too old to die so young. Miss Forever Mask
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This is a horrible written by THE MMA PROFESSOR,
March 13, 2009
hit for mma. As you guys stated he helped tons of amateurs come up. Just all around sad really. He was such a big advocate for MMA we need more guys like him helping the sport grow and bring knowledge to all those clowns that still call the sport barbaric
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... written by xdanx,
March 15, 2009
f**k.......
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... written by dizzydw,
March 16, 2009
a real shame....R I P
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Dreadful written by Nathan 01,
June 04, 2009
Hopefully everyone can learn from this, but how many have died before him doing the same thing? Come on people, just becouse you get money and nice, fast cars doesn't mean it can't all be stopped by something like this. Sorry for his family, he will be missed.
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