Report: IK Enemkpali, seeking sex, once punched man he thought was woman
You know the guy who punched Geno Smith? Yeah, the same one whom the New York Jets released and who was claimed immediately by the Buffalo Bills?
Yeah, that guy — IK Enemkpali.
Turns out that Smith is not the only person he’s punched. Back in 2011, per ESPN’s Outside the Lines, Enemkpali punched a man he thought was a woman he had found on the internet to purchase oral sex.
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Yes, Enemkpali was catfished by a dude. The story, remarkably, gets weirder.
Enemkpali met someone on Facebook named “Missy Lee” and they arranged to meet for a paid dalliance. When the then college player at Louisiana Tech got there, “Missy Lee” was covered completely in a blanket and something didn’t add up.
So Enemkpali reportedly left, only to return later and see that — by the light of a cell phone (or possibly a higher power?) — “Missy Lee” had a five-o’clock shadow and that there was a third person in the room.
Assuming he was being set up to be robbed, according to the report, Enemkpali punched the person who quite clearly now was a man and fled by jumping through a window. (Told you it would get weirder.)
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The man in question — Ketryn Anderson, who reportedly is senior pastor at a Shreveport (La.) church — repeatedly threatened to report Enemkpali to the police for the two broken teeth he suffered, which led Enemkpali to file his own report three days later on the off-the-rails incident.
Enemkpali refused to press charges once the incident was reported to the school, perhaps trying to keep it under wraps. Enemkpali had been suspended before the start of that season for hitting an off-duty cop a bar and was charged with battery on an officer and disturbing the peace, so it was the police’s theory that Anderson/”Missy Lee” was seeking to prey on an athlete who had been in trouble before and might not be inclined to report what might happen.
Anderson refused comment to ESPN unless they paid him.
Some NFL teams were aware of the story before the 2014 draft and red-flagged Enemkpali for the incident. It was the same year that Manti Te’o came out for the NFL, so teams likely were brushing up on their definition of catfishing.
So now Enemkpali is a member (in good standing?) with the Bills, who face the Jets in Week 9, which could reunite Enemkpali (if he makes the team) and Smith (if his jaw is healed and he gets his starting gig back). There will be no gender confusion then, we hope, but we’re not ruling out the possibility of something else completely strange occurring in that Thursday night matchup.
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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Eric_Edholm
