An L.A. gym owner and jacked influencer is being called out by a local legend of street vending defense for making allegedly racist acts towards a Mexican food business. And that looks like it was just the start of his troubles.
Akop Torosian , aka Jack Torosian, the owner of No Limit Supergym in North Hollywood, has been accused online of aggressively screaming at a woman who was providing refreshments for an event at his gym and making at least one-pointedly super-lame and abusive comments towards her and her entire race.
According to a post on Alex Enamorado’s TikTok account that features a telltale DM he received from Lety’s Aguas Frescas, the beverage business was hired by employees of the gym to serve at an event alongside some other vendors on Saturday.
Torosian is said to have approached Lety’s or another business once they’d set up and, in a sweaty rage with his Supreme boxers peeking out, started screaming about how they had to leave immediately. Before the vendors packed up and called it a day, video captured a raging Torosian in full Karen mode, barking: “Tell them to get the fuck out of here. This is embarrassing. This is not some Mexican hangout!”
After being alerted to the terrible treatment of a hard-working human being, Enamorado and others online went on the warpath, sharing the video with followers and even taunting the gym owner in front of his business.
“We’re here,” says Enamorado, wearing the Mexican flag around his shoulders like Superman’s cape, “having ‘a Mexican hangout’ in front of the Supergym, where the owner, Akop Torosian, he has been abusing his employees and yesterday said some racist stuff towards a Mexican food vendor, we have to hold him accountable… where’s he at? He’s not so tough now.”
The apparently fearless Enamorado confronted a jacked customer of the gym later that day and questioned him about his support of the abusive owner.
Next, Torosian appears to have gone on the defense. The owner put out a 3-part statement on Instagram to try and make good with the millions of Mexicans he had just personally disparaged, writing: Many of you have seen a video posted yesterday of an event held at my gym. First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone involved, and to the Latino community, with whom I have had a very close personal and business relationship with for decades. The video has been taken out of context, and does not represent who I am, my values, or my views. No Limit is an all-inclusive facility, and does not discriminate based on gender, sex or race. Again, I would like to apologize to everyone involved! I will immediately make contact with the leaders of the Latino community, and set up meeting with relevant members to see how I can be more involved against the fight for racial equality and justice. As a small step forward, I will be making a donation of $10,000 to Centro Legal De La Raza. I will also organize an event at No Limit for our Latino community for business development and outreach. Again, my sincerest apologies.
Many of you have seen a video posted yesterday of an event held at my gym. First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone involved, and to the Latino community, with whom I have had a very close personal and business relationship with for decades. The video has been taken out of context, and does not represent who I am, my values, or my views. No Limit is an all-inclusive facility, and does not discriminate based on gender, sex or race. Again, I would like to apologize to everyone involved! I will immediately make contact with the leaders of the Latino community, and set up meeting with relevant members to see how I can be more involved against the fight for racial equality and justice. As a small step forward, I will be making a donation of $10,000 to Centro Legal De La Raza. I will also organize an event at No Limit for our Latino community for business development and outreach. Again, my sincerest apologies.
Our meathead is a little rusty these days. But we’re pretty sure he meant to say he will see how he can be more involved in, not against, the fight for racial equality and justice. In any case, the whole thing seems to roughly translate into “these are the Hail Marys I will throw to see if I can I save my business after majorly fucking up” with “the Latino community.”
Protestors were out in front of No Limit with a bullhorn, encouraging gym-goers to boycott the “racist” business and its “domestic violence abuser” owner. Meanwhile, No Limit’s Yelp page caught the full fury of L.A.’s digital wrath, with comments that shone a light on Torosian’s statement and alleged crimes and trespasses of the past.
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Yelp reviewers call him racist and some labeled him an abuser of women. A few reviews circulate alleged statements he supposedly made that were not captured on video. This was not the first, or final, controversy to embroil Torosian, who also has a No Limit location in Miami.
In late 2015, when Torosian was still named as the owner of Glendale’s Papillon International Bakery, where Russian ponchik and Georgian khachapuri are served aside churros and empanadas, he had charges dropped for two counts of attempted murder and assault with a semiautomatic firearm in a triple shooting case, receiving three years of probation for one count of possession of a deadly weapon with the intent to commit assault.
Today, Torosian’s attempts to repair the damage to his reputation may be on hold for now, as he confronts bigger problems. As allegedly shown in a video posted by Enamorado, the gym owner was arrested at gunpoint in a Day-Glo hat on Sunday morning, for allegedly threatening an employee or several employees with a gun sometime during the events that followed his racist diatribe.
Damn, the dude must really hate aguas frescas.
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This POS should be made to feel the Latino wrath. It’s well known that Armenians are racist against Mexicans for who knows whats stupid reason. Do I sound racist know too? Anyway, hit him where it hurts….in his wallet and little teenie weenie
I am Armenian and love Mexicans, Mexican culture, etc. but I totally agree — a lot of racism within the Armenian community toward others AND even toward Armenians that aren’t born in Armenia or don’t speak Armenian. It’s very sad and comes from a narrow minded upbringing.
For someone to say all Armenians are racist based on an individuals actions is exactly what he was caught doing “stereotyping”, this is not okay! If you have something to say about his actions it’s one thing but to categorize others to be racist is just plain wrong! It’s like me calling all Hispanics racist if someone from your culture makes a dumb comment.
The clown Armenians with old school mentalities usually born there might have racist tendencies. But if you come in contact with an Armenian born & raised here, we love all races & people. Not making an excuse for his disgusting behavior but just want to put that out there. And trust me when I say this guy is the definition of a circus clown 🤡
Bro I’m Armenian and I love Mexicans. Trust me the entire Armenian community in LA hates this guy and especially after he made us look bad we hate him even more
painting us all with the same brush is just as bad as him being the racist POS he is. i’m an armenian american, I teach high school, my student body is 50% spanish speaking and 50% armenian. i teach them to respect and appreciate their differences and bridge the gap between our groups with love and compassion so these idiots are marginalized and eventually extinct.
It’s true. Armenians, according to 2022 penis size data have some of the smallest and skinniest penis’ on Earth. Men with the largest are Africans, Balkans, French / Spain other parts of EU, Ecuador and Mexico. Russia, an satellite communist states on average come in second place to China for small penis’, smaller than Japanese, averaging 4.78″ erect. Look it up, 2022 erect global penis sizes. That’s why only Armenian women date Armenian men, because other races rather feel something larger than their pinky finger.
Roided up PUNK- plain and simple. Let him talk that s___t to me- he wouldn’t have a mouth
Ayeeeee! This dude is only sorry he got caught. Of course he also has a gym in Florida, where he can kinda get away with that crap. Not here, bro. 🙄
Good to see us united. This needs to stop. Racist behavior us uncalled for. He has shown his true self on mire than one occasion. Finally he has been exposed for his tyrant and criminal behavior. He has a long record of violence, and has gotten away with it. Not today!!
This guy is an embarrassment and disgrace to his own kind. Trust me when I say NO Armenian likes or supports this clown. We support & stand with you all!
Lame apology ! Racist roid fuck
Too late to say sorry now that you’ve been caught!!
I guess we’re all lucky this guy did come out with a gun and immediately start shooting everyone given that he’s already been convicted of doing just that (see the LATIMES article link).
And we appreciate that he using the classic American way out of “checkbook apologizing”, but if he’s genuinely your sorry – in addition to his milquetoast apology – he should donate $10k to every one of the hard working Latinx vendors he thick headily attempted to demean, enroll in anger management and racial sensitivity counseling, stop taking steroids, and be required to wear a t-shirt at all times!!! Because not only did our brave Latinx vendors survive an encounter with a furry gun toting hulk, they also survived having their eyeballs poked out by some vicious gym nipples.
Wear eye protection and stay safe out there mi gente.
I want to applaud Clayton Cardenas, star of FX’s “Mayans MC” for going on record and saying he was canceling his gym membership. He worked out at this gym frequently and as soon as news came out about this owner, he took to Instagram to denounce discrimination and abuse. Thank you, Clayton!
I don’t know why this guy thinks to much of himself,before making any racist comments against Mexican or Latin people , he should take a good look at his horrible English accent , his face look like angry man ,looks so cheap. If I wanted join a gym and saw that is the owner lol I will never sign up . God created us all, different races, color looks, why so much hate in America. That guy looks like he had to much steroids and is all messed up and an abuser like him , should not be loose in streets anger management needed.
His problem is that he’s all steroid it out. Let’s emphasize on that for a second. He’s working out with a cigarette in his mouth does that look like a person that really takes care of his body?!! This POS, is a fraud. No healthy person on this planet will smoke a cigarette let alone one while working out. It’s obvious it’s the steroids. Second of all you’re an immigrant, your family are immigrants your children who were born here have parents that are immigrants. Are you just did is open up a can of worms that you probably don’t want open. You are most likely going to be investigated to the point that all your dirty laundry comes raining down on you. At the end of all this you will be mortified that your stupid comment got you in this hot water. I hope no one ever treats your daughters with such disrespect. But if you speak to people like that you are a very unkind human being and it all comes tenfold. Don’t forget your place. ( Jack Ass ). 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇦🇲
Fuck the Armenians, this is LA and Mexicans are majority .. you fucked with the wrong people, now you will pay the consequences.. let the homes catch you slipping and you’ll regret fucking with us we are warriors and will show you we’re not to be fucked with puto 🤬😡🖕🏽
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