WHEELING – Johnny Haught doesn’t stand for bullying. In fact, he stands up to bullies. And at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds, when the owner of Ohio Valley MMA stands, he casts a looming shadow. That’s all he said he was doing last month when, after a drag brunch at Primanti Bros. at The Highlands was […]

Bullying has long been a sore spot for him. Before he grew into a burly professional fighter, Haught said he was a bullying victim as a child.

“I got beat up, bullied, victimized, made to feel awful,” he said. “I have zero tolerance for it. I do not like to see it on TV. I do not like to see it in the real world. And, you know, I’m always looking at situations like that. And I’m like, I wish somebody would try that with me. And so I put myself out there to take some of the hate from this.