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National wrestling champ sentenced to 60 years for knowingly spreading HIV

Former JUCO wrestling champ, Michael Johnson, jailed for recklessly spreading HIV.

Michael Johnson, a former wrestling champion from Lincoln College, Illinois, has found himself at the center of a legal battle pertaining to his alleged sexual indiscretions. Johnson, who is also known by his online alter ego "Tiger Mandingo," has been accused of knowingly spreading HIV to a number of sexual partners that he met on gay dating apps.

Following a 3 day trial, a jury needed just 3 hours of deliberations to find Johnson guilty of one count of recklessly infecting a partner with HIV, 1 count of attempting to recklessly infect a partner with HIV and 3 counts of recklessly exposing a partner to HIV.