In 2002, Hannah and Brennan testified in the criminal trials of the producers of Bumfights on several charges, including the soliciting of felonies the defendants were acquitted on the majority of charges and sentenced to community service for conspiring to stage an illegal fight (in 2005, they were sentenced to 6 months in prison for having failed to complete the community service). Both men were also paid to get Bumfights tattoos: Hannah's tattoo was across his knuckles and Brennan's was on his forehead. Brennan, an army veteran, and Hannah (who was injured in basic training), were paid an average of $10 per stunt. He subsequently was filmed performing other "stunts" for the Bumfights videos, including riding a shopping cart down a flight of stairs, ramming his head into steel doors so hard that he suffered from epilepsy, and beating up Donald "Donnie" Brennan, another homeless man, so badly that Brennan's leg was broken in two places and required surgical intervention. Rufus Hannah, quoted in a 2006 New York Times report I never had any idea the stuff he was filming would become what it did."
"I just wanted some money to get drunk, so I did what he told me to. In the early 1990s, he moved to California, where he was approached by Ryan McPherson to produce Bumfights. After his injury, he started drinking heavily, leading to his homelessness and alcoholism. He was soon discharged after injuring himself during basic training. He started drinking at 14, despite having a "good family." He was a construction worker until the age of 27, when he joined the U.S. Hannah was raised in Swainsboro, Georgia. Rufus Hannah (Novem– October 4, 2017), also known as Rufus the Stunt Bum, was an American advocate for homeless rights who became known for his role in the early Bumfights videos: in 2000, while himself a homeless alcoholic, he was paid $5 to be filmed running headfirst into a stack of milk crates.
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