How would life become if you could clone yourself and make your clone do the things you were too tired to do? Life would be simple, right? While fantastical, it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility with a pair of identical twins! While we’ve seen plenty of pranks featuring identical twins, similar to Fred and George Weasley from the famous Harry Potter series, what about instances when twins user their powers to cheat? That too in a sport as grueling as MMA?

Recently, two brothers had to face the consequences of using their power of being twins. What happened? Well, the German MMA organization called the German MMA Championship (GMC) had a huge scandal recently. This not so well-known organization has now gone viral because of the incident that pretty much shook the MMA community, and everything was discussed by fans in Reddit.

GMC 41 took place in Gelsenkirchen and as part of that event, a contest was held under the subsidiary GMC OlympiX.  They organized an amateur heavyweight tournament and a total of four heavyweights were selected in the tournament, Joshua Homberg, Aleksandar Grujić, Moritz Pohl, and David Minnemann.

Now here is the interesting bit—Joshua Homberg has an identical twin named Jeremias Homberg. The only thing that separates their looks is Jeremias’ tattoos. David Minnemann and Moritz Pohl were the first fighters to enter the cage, and after a tough match Minnemann advanced to the finals. In the second semifinal, Joshua Homberg fought Grujić,  and Homberg won. Thus, Homberg and Minnemann advanced to the final, which took place that same evening.

This is where the scandal began. Jeremias Homberg was also in Gelsenkirchen. Among the two, he is lesser known in the MMA world and he trains at the UFD Gym. So what happened? When the fighter walked to the ring, instead of an exhausted Joshua—it was clear that Jeremias Homberg was the one entering the cage. How was he caught? His whole sleeve tattoo was visible to everyone. Naturally, he was not exhausted and knocked his opponent out in round 1 to gain a victory.

But the damage was done even though the team managers tried to hide his tattoos with a towel later on. The twins received severe penalties after the revelation and the head of GMC said that along with the German MMA Federation, they decided to suspend the brothers for life. Now MMA fans are having a field day over the scandal in a Reddit post about the same.

Fans rush to discuss the latest MMA scandal involving GMC

One eagle-eyed MMA nerd said, “Jose Canseco did this once in celebrity boxing, but I think his brother had different tattoos so they figured it out.” So for the unversed, in 2011 Jose Canseco’s twin brother Ozzie impersonated him in a boxing match. However, fans were quick to notice that Ozzie did not have the same tattoos as his brother Jose. Immediately police escorted Ozzie out of the Hard Rock nightclub in Hollywood, and the rest is history.

Another follower insinuated all the scandals that UFC Heavyweight king Jon Jones has had and said, “Haha if this is the worst scandal in MMA, my name is Jon Jones.” Another fan hilariously mentioned the famous character from Breaking Bad saying, “Was Saul Goodman his manager?”

Another follower gave an idea stating, “Make a movie about this,” while another follower hilariously chimed in, “work smarter not harder.” One netizen wrote, “Scandal? nah this is hilarious,” while another stated, “This could easily be a WWE plot line.” What do you think about this failed trick? Share your thoughts in the comments below.