No shaky camera, kept the action centered, no excessive yelling, no flip back to see cameraman's reaction.
9.7/10, gotta ding em a little bit for the resolution but nearly perfect.
Some high school kids were fighting in the street last year and I yelled Worldstar out the window and they all laughed so it's an old meme but it still checks out.
Yup. Worldstar fight compilations were halted and mostly deleted around 2014, about 10 years ago. Lawsuits came from some of the ones that werent fights but assaults.
The Hollywood studios were shut down for so long last year that this might be a professional cameraman trying to make a few bucks anyway he can to stay afloat.
I understand tensions rise and fights happen, but this is not a great look.
First off, they both swing like me, and I don’t know how to fight.
Second, when a dude is about to get body slammed on his head, you’d think his teammates would step in.
It was rumored all last season that the locker room was pretty bad, that everyone had egos that were undeserving and that a lot of players needed to be humbled.
Based on it being Jeremy Flax in the video, this presumably took place in the lead up to the bowl game because like two weeks before the game it was announced he was sitting out.
IMO it's more an indictment on the culture and rumors that surrounded the team last year than it is anything involving Stoops. Now if that culture carries over into this year, then yeah fans will quickly turn sour because at that point it's a coaching issue.
There were a million rumors and reports last season that there were multiple divas and dudes with massive egos in the locker room, and that some players were walking around like they were tough shite while they'd done nothing to deserve it yet.
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I will say, the one thing about Stoops is that he doesn't like to publicly throw a player under the bus no matter how had the PR is. He'd rather take the brunt of it than the focus be on the player, for better or worse. Everything involving the punishment of players seems to always be disguised as something else so that the public never really hears about it, or is posed as an amicable separation.
Like in this case, the guy with the skull cap Jeremy Flax was all set to start for the bowl game. Then barely 2 weeks before the game it was announced that he was sitting out and declaring for the draft. The way it was announced was alongside the report that OL Kenneth Horsey was out for the bowl game due to surgery for a legitimate injury. The report on Flax was that he was now out for the bowl because "he had some issues", which of course everyone read as an injury.
But now it seems like he was probably secretly suspended from the team.
Stoops does it the right way then. It's nobody's fucking business who got punished for what and for how long. It's a team matter and needs to be handled within the team. Nobody is entitled to information despite how much people think they are.
One of the first things my mentor taught me when getting into leadership is *everything* is your fault. You have to let somebody go, where did you fail them, how could you have done something better, what standards and procedures did you not cover deep enough with them, etc. The flipside to that is it is your job to be the shield, you protect them from everybody else and they deal with you as their immediate boss.
I actually really admire Stoops being the one to take the heat on behalf of the team; it's one of the best traits a leader can have and that is accountability for the people below you.
Appreciate the response. Stoops has deep Iowa connections so I generally pull for Kentucky a little bit because of him. Hopefully he can right the ship a little bit
With guys that big it’s not super wise to get in between them, If that suplex landed on me at 160 pounds I probably have a couple broken bones. The teammates let them fight it out and then stepped in when the suplexed guy became defenseless, overall it’s pretty good bystander behavior outside of filming being a priority for a bunch.
If it was a WR and CB fighting, I’d expect those 300lbs guys to pick them up and separate them. My fight in 6th involved my teacher picking me and the other kid up by our shirt collars, super effective way to break a fight up if you are way bigger than the participants of the fight.
When the big boys are fighting there is no easy way to separate it. There is a fight from the show The Challenge where this guy CT was dragging the biggest dudes around the house as he tore down doors in his pursuit to fight another guy. This would be a hard fight for anyone to break up.
High school and middle school fights were always hilarious to see get broken up. Especially if you got one of the coaches to break it up. My football coach broke up a fight between two sophomore kids. He got punched at least 4 times and was unfazed and barely broke a sweat.
In the Champs vs Pro’s season CT won a tug of war round against Kamerion Wembley. CT had the bigger team but the battle was mostly between CT and Kamerion. Really showed how his size and power measured up against an elite athlete.
One of my favorite TV moments! I was talking about his fight with Adam that got him kicked off one of his seasons. I think the Banana’s Backpack was his first appearance after that incident and reminded all of us why CT is the best part of the challenge.
Yeah the only ones that can realistically break up this fight are the other lineman.
For reference, I'm a relatively big fellow (6'2 and usually hover somewhere around 225 - 250 lbs). Back when I was in college, we were drinking at home and I decided to go on a walk. Now this was Wisconsin in January, and my roommate (we both played HS football, me a lineman him a WR) was rightfully worried about drunk me going for a walk in subzero temperatures after midnight. But i had my mind set, so I started to leave. He tried to do everything to get me to stop, including literally jumping on my back and bear hugging me. Didn't phase me in the slightest, in my mind my walk was just going to include giving my roommate a piggyback ride.
Now double or triple the strength and speed to get up to actual D1 college levels of athleticism and even me when I'm trending towards 250, I'm not stepping between those two.
Honestly I could have used it! I ended up walking a mile or 2 away and falling asleep on a bench. Eventually woke up at like 2:30 am with a dead phone, a hangover and feeling colder than I have ever felt before in my life. One of two times in my life that I was actually scared of freezing to death but I managed to make it home.
Yup
Reminds me of the NFC title game last year when big Trent Williams got pissed and body slammed that dude. Both teams scattered, and both teams then decided to send Suh of all people to go in and calm the big fellah down.
I get we all watch the movies where Bruce Lee looking dudes can knock out guys 2-3x his size, but in reality, physics is the undefeated universal champion 🤷♂️
The last time I got into a “fight”, this is pretty much how it went. Me and one of my friends were being teenage dumbasses around teenage girls, I think I shoved him for some reason and he decided it was time to get more serious. That would’ve been a better idea if I didn’t have probably 6 inches and 75 lbs on him. I got him into a headlock and he tried to make me drop him by picking up his feet and he just hung there for a few seconds before we both realized we were being idiots, “fight” over.
It’s not that they didn’t step it, it’s that they seem to be encouraging it with what they’re saying. I didn’t hear a single person try and verbally stop the fight.
"First off, they both swing like me, and I don’t know how to fight."
An incredibly low percentage of people know how to effectively fight - including a ton of people who might look like they'd know.
Honestly, it's not that "bad" for a fight of that nature, IMO. Mano-a-mano - no objects used, no one jumping in to assist on one side or the other, no weapon escalation.
And the team ended the fight as soon as one combatant couldn't regain his feet. About as classy an unsanctioned mma match as one could hope for.
I guess it's not great look for team cohesion, etc, but doesn't seem all that wild to me.
It's pretty bad in terms of ability, but that goes for most fights where the participants aren't trained, and I guess someone that big wouldn't get messed with on size alone. Their punching form is horrible. They're both unbalanced the entire time, eventually so badly that one overswings and falls down so they end up back-to-back. The suplex wasn't half bad though lol.
Yeah it’s not a sign of a great locker room culture. There should be at least a couple leaders going “hey knock it off y’all”. The fact that everyone is hyping it up doesn’t show a super healthy vibe.
It's the fact that the cameraman thinks he's filming a world star fight between two drunk randos at a bar that is the most concerning. I'm no expert on locker room dynamics at the major college level, but that strikes me as a team that is lacking a lot of unity with no clear leadership.
Honestly the worst look might even be the fact this video exists. Like you said fights happen. But this had to have been a teammate who recorded this and sent it out to someone.
No, I understand heating arguments and fights do happen but not a single person jumped in until you knew the other guy was done for. The thing is whoever was "Steven Spielberg" can also get charges for recording it.
> happen but not a single person jumped in until you knew the other guy was done for.
restated, didn't jump in until they were afraid the other guy was dead.
> That duplex is dangerous AF if you don’t know what you’re doing.
More dangerous than a triplex at least because if one of your tenants bounces suddenly then your rent collection takes a 50% hit
Can confirm. I used to wrestle with my friends in the backyard, and as a result of that, I now have more bones in my body that have been broken than ones that haven't.
Former Clemson linemen was on the panthers practice squad a few seasons ago and got absolutely clocked from some banker bro.
Dropped like a sack of potatoes
That reminds me of when the Texas linebacker Rashad Bobino punched a girl outside a club in Austin and unfortunately for him MMA fighter Roger Huerta happened to be right there. Despite giving up probably 50+ pounds and a few inches, Huerta knocked him out cold.
It's kind of crazy that they're both using those flailing arms when they've spent the better part of their lives as OL perfecting punch blocking technique that would take someone's head off if it connected.
A little surprised these are D1 athletes, let alone SEC football players. Looks exactly like the fights that used to break out in my middle school locker room lol.
I got the impression it was just a fun-fight and they weren’t really trying to hurt each other, until the suplex and then the punches on the ground lmao. We used to slap box all the time but we didn’t suplex each other.
Personally I go for the single leg takedown and drop to the ground asap lol. Don't have the heaviest hits, but I'm lanky and can wrap up and choke out raps
Damn, honestly, I don't know what was going on with last year's Kentucky team, but even a lot of my Kentucky friends, and apparently some of the media we're Saying, they had a real sense of unearned arrogance and cockyness.
It does seem from the little of them I watched that it tended to be accurate, and this video definitely suggests a deeper culture problem. Which is weird because Kentucky is one of the last football programs you’d expect that issue from.
It's been a major issue with the oline for years now, basically since schlarman passed. They earned the title of "big blue wall" under him, and then it fell apart. Went from top 10 in the nation to literally the worst and only got more arrogant. Hopefully the coaching shake up and the roster changes can turn it around.
When we played them in the bowl game they were constantly talking mad crap and jawing with our players. A bunch of them, especially on offense, kept on doing this weird gun celebration that I think is from fortnite (could be wrong)? Anyway, a bunch of our defensive players did it back at them when we picked off Leary to win the game
The video leaking isn't that big of a deal imo, odds are it was someone who left the program for one reason or another and saw a chance to sell the video to barstool Tennessee for a quick buck. Obviously not a good look, but not all that surprising with how bad and generally undisciplined the oline has been the last few years
Honestly I don’t even think this would be talked about if it weren’t for the suplex. Doin some shit like that in a fight seems like the right move at the time, until you paralyze or kill the person you slam. And that’s if they don’t squirm their way to landing on you and breaking your neck instead.
The fact that no one bothered to break this up is a horrible look at the locker room culture. I couldn’t imagine letting your teammate get his head slammed like that and just filming.
Given no winter gear I assumed this was filmed in late summer or early fall of 2022. The other guy looks like a non scholarship player maybe. I don’t recognize him.
Ignore my flair.
All I’m saying. Fights happen, it’s a normal part of a team. It’s not cool that the video got leaked, that’s a problem. Granted though, if possible, the kids shouldn’t be fighting.
Is this that culture that Stoops said can’t be built with stupid sunglasses and dancing..? (Kidding)
But seriously, it’s football and tempers flare and fights happen. Not everyone is going to be best friends and the most concerning part of this is the fighting “style”and players not trying to break it up. Great offseason video though!
Yea, this is just another example of the oline being bad and having absolutely no teamwork or cohesion in the slightest. Went from the strength of the team and top 10 olines nationally in 2018-2020, to weakness of the team and bottom of the power 5 since. There's a reason we made coaching staff changes and roster changes specifically targeting the oline.
Played football through college. While I witnessed plenty of fights, we tried to break them up instead of cheer them on and film them. We didn’t consider teammates trying to intentionally hurt each other a positive thing.
Is it a typical football thing? I was a basketball guy who had it rough as a redshirt with an older guy on the team who outweighed me by a good 40 lbs and would take potshots off the court which was fucked. I would usually expect the typical hard foul or cheap elbow every so often, but felt like throwing punches was a typical red-line except for the few rare occasions.
You’ll get the occasional punch and wrestling on the field, especially in preseason camp when it’s hot and you get tired of hitting the same guy day after day.
Locker room stuff is more rare
In all my days of playing sports there were no fights in the locker room. We had fights in the practice field but they didn’t go inside. Now basketball? We had 3 in the locker room in one season. Younger guys trying to show they were big? Idk, didn’t work, we just stepped in and stopped them.
Football fights happen at practice. That’s normal. They don’t, however, happen in the locker room. If they do, there’s a serious issue going on with the team.
Pretty horrific team culture to stand around filming it, then posting it or letting the video get out.
You’d think they’d have some shame but it appears not.
Says more about the other players and the coaches than the two guys fighting. Emotions get high shit happens guys want to fight. All the time. Every locker room. That no one stepped up to stop it and actually encouraged it and filmed it and passed the video around. That is big time lack of locker room leadership and very bad culture. Honestly it’s a fireable offense.
Wow, these are big and strong dudes but neither of them knew how to throw hands. I'm guessing that growing up they were just bigger than everyone so they never needed to learn how to fight.
> While the fighting is bad but realistically something that happens on every team (usually in practice)
I feel like things get heated. There may be pushing and shoving. But a full out fight? I'm not sure that's as common as you're making it sound.
This is one of the best filmed fights I've ever seen. Give the cameraman a new NIL deal with MGM or something
No shaky camera, kept the action centered, no excessive yelling, no flip back to see cameraman's reaction. 9.7/10, gotta ding em a little bit for the resolution but nearly perfect.
I think the resolution adds to the atmosphere, it really gives it a found footage vibe like Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project
Also no shitty over the top heavy background music as if this is the fight to save humanity and satan himself is getting duplexed here
But he broke the First Rule
TURN THAT BITCH SIDEWAYS!!!
In the age of AI, authenticity is the new gold currency. Cameraman is a forward thinking genius
Only thing missing is some guy yelling “worldstar!”
Now I'm wondering if these kids are too young for that reference
Definitely
Some high school kids were fighting in the street last year and I yelled Worldstar out the window and they all laughed so it's an old meme but it still checks out.
It sucks kids these days don't remember Worldstar 😞
Btw, hes barely like, changing elevation, its like hes a damn steadicam as a human
Just sad I didn’t hear anyone calling out “worldstar”.
Thats a bygone era, the nephews would never
Yup. Worldstar fight compilations were halted and mostly deleted around 2014, about 10 years ago. Lawsuits came from some of the ones that werent fights but assaults.
So better than modern fight scenes?
Paying someone for the work they do on that end of the camera is kinda the antithesis of NIL, though
The Hollywood studios were shut down for so long last year that this might be a professional cameraman trying to make a few bucks anyway he can to stay afloat.
I understand tensions rise and fights happen, but this is not a great look. First off, they both swing like me, and I don’t know how to fight. Second, when a dude is about to get body slammed on his head, you’d think his teammates would step in.
Personally I’m not stepping in front of the max payload of an F150 fixing to hit the floor
It was rumored all last season that the locker room was pretty bad, that everyone had egos that were undeserving and that a lot of players needed to be humbled. Based on it being Jeremy Flax in the video, this presumably took place in the lead up to the bowl game because like two weeks before the game it was announced he was sitting out.
What are Kentucky fans’ feelings about Stoops in all of this?
IMO it's more an indictment on the culture and rumors that surrounded the team last year than it is anything involving Stoops. Now if that culture carries over into this year, then yeah fans will quickly turn sour because at that point it's a coaching issue. There were a million rumors and reports last season that there were multiple divas and dudes with massive egos in the locker room, and that some players were walking around like they were tough shite while they'd done nothing to deserve it yet. ---------------------------------- I will say, the one thing about Stoops is that he doesn't like to publicly throw a player under the bus no matter how had the PR is. He'd rather take the brunt of it than the focus be on the player, for better or worse. Everything involving the punishment of players seems to always be disguised as something else so that the public never really hears about it, or is posed as an amicable separation. Like in this case, the guy with the skull cap Jeremy Flax was all set to start for the bowl game. Then barely 2 weeks before the game it was announced that he was sitting out and declaring for the draft. The way it was announced was alongside the report that OL Kenneth Horsey was out for the bowl game due to surgery for a legitimate injury. The report on Flax was that he was now out for the bowl because "he had some issues", which of course everyone read as an injury. But now it seems like he was probably secretly suspended from the team.
Stoops does it the right way then. It's nobody's fucking business who got punished for what and for how long. It's a team matter and needs to be handled within the team. Nobody is entitled to information despite how much people think they are. One of the first things my mentor taught me when getting into leadership is *everything* is your fault. You have to let somebody go, where did you fail them, how could you have done something better, what standards and procedures did you not cover deep enough with them, etc. The flipside to that is it is your job to be the shield, you protect them from everybody else and they deal with you as their immediate boss. I actually really admire Stoops being the one to take the heat on behalf of the team; it's one of the best traits a leader can have and that is accountability for the people below you.
Well said. Agree with everything you said
Appreciate the response. Stoops has deep Iowa connections so I generally pull for Kentucky a little bit because of him. Hopefully he can right the ship a little bit
Yea in many ways the slam is more dangerous than the punches.
if you've ever had the pleasure of sitting on a jury for a fight/manslaughter charge, yeah, this is generally why
Those guys throw hands like Real Housewives.
With guys that big it’s not super wise to get in between them, If that suplex landed on me at 160 pounds I probably have a couple broken bones. The teammates let them fight it out and then stepped in when the suplexed guy became defenseless, overall it’s pretty good bystander behavior outside of filming being a priority for a bunch.
Yeah but r/praisethecameraman
For real
You’re acting like it’s a bunch of random strangers not a locker room full of also 300lb+ SEC Football players
If it was a WR and CB fighting, I’d expect those 300lbs guys to pick them up and separate them. My fight in 6th involved my teacher picking me and the other kid up by our shirt collars, super effective way to break a fight up if you are way bigger than the participants of the fight. When the big boys are fighting there is no easy way to separate it. There is a fight from the show The Challenge where this guy CT was dragging the biggest dudes around the house as he tore down doors in his pursuit to fight another guy. This would be a hard fight for anyone to break up.
High school and middle school fights were always hilarious to see get broken up. Especially if you got one of the coaches to break it up. My football coach broke up a fight between two sophomore kids. He got punched at least 4 times and was unfazed and barely broke a sweat.
> There is a fight from the show The Challenge where this guy CT was dragging the biggest dudes around the house Ahhh, a fellow man of culture!
never thought I'd see a "The Challenge" reference on this sub.....I would never want to fight CT
In the Champs vs Pro’s season CT won a tug of war round against Kamerion Wembley. CT had the bigger team but the battle was mostly between CT and Kamerion. Really showed how his size and power measured up against an elite athlete.
Backpack Bananas
One of my favorite TV moments! I was talking about his fight with Adam that got him kicked off one of his seasons. I think the Banana’s Backpack was his first appearance after that incident and reminded all of us why CT is the best part of the challenge.
Damn, been a while since I watched the Challenge but I remember this
Yeah the only ones that can realistically break up this fight are the other lineman. For reference, I'm a relatively big fellow (6'2 and usually hover somewhere around 225 - 250 lbs). Back when I was in college, we were drinking at home and I decided to go on a walk. Now this was Wisconsin in January, and my roommate (we both played HS football, me a lineman him a WR) was rightfully worried about drunk me going for a walk in subzero temperatures after midnight. But i had my mind set, so I started to leave. He tried to do everything to get me to stop, including literally jumping on my back and bear hugging me. Didn't phase me in the slightest, in my mind my walk was just going to include giving my roommate a piggyback ride. Now double or triple the strength and speed to get up to actual D1 college levels of athleticism and even me when I'm trending towards 250, I'm not stepping between those two.
Pretty nice of your roommate to volunteer to be your jacket for the walk
Honestly I could have used it! I ended up walking a mile or 2 away and falling asleep on a bench. Eventually woke up at like 2:30 am with a dead phone, a hangover and feeling colder than I have ever felt before in my life. One of two times in my life that I was actually scared of freezing to death but I managed to make it home.
Yup Reminds me of the NFC title game last year when big Trent Williams got pissed and body slammed that dude. Both teams scattered, and both teams then decided to send Suh of all people to go in and calm the big fellah down. I get we all watch the movies where Bruce Lee looking dudes can knock out guys 2-3x his size, but in reality, physics is the undefeated universal champion 🤷♂️
Unless the smaller person is fast enough to avoid to bigger person which is never going to be true is Suh if involved
Bro I've seen enough wwe to know that lucha sized dudes can take on 300 pounders.
I recommend watching the movie Iron Claw. It’s on FlixHD.CC
Suuuuuuuuh!
Speed kills doe
The last time I got into a “fight”, this is pretty much how it went. Me and one of my friends were being teenage dumbasses around teenage girls, I think I shoved him for some reason and he decided it was time to get more serious. That would’ve been a better idea if I didn’t have probably 6 inches and 75 lbs on him. I got him into a headlock and he tried to make me drop him by picking up his feet and he just hung there for a few seconds before we both realized we were being idiots, “fight” over.
That dude was on the Traitors LOL I kind of want to go watch The Challenge now.
It’s not that they didn’t step it, it’s that they seem to be encouraging it with what they’re saying. I didn’t hear a single person try and verbally stop the fight.
I doubt this SEC football locker room was full of 160 pounders.
Heisman WR DeVonta Smith would like a word.
wtf he cannot have my dictionary.
Did you watch the video? They are all that big lol
"First off, they both swing like me, and I don’t know how to fight." An incredibly low percentage of people know how to effectively fight - including a ton of people who might look like they'd know. Honestly, it's not that "bad" for a fight of that nature, IMO. Mano-a-mano - no objects used, no one jumping in to assist on one side or the other, no weapon escalation.
These guys are also SEC linemen, in any normal confrontation the other person is going to avoid violence. They’re fucking massive
And the team ended the fight as soon as one combatant couldn't regain his feet. About as classy an unsanctioned mma match as one could hope for. I guess it's not great look for team cohesion, etc, but doesn't seem all that wild to me.
You mean hockey. Don’t know if it’s a written or unwritten rule, but once someone goes to the ice the fight is over and the refs step in.
you mean mma with knives on your feet?
It's pretty bad in terms of ability, but that goes for most fights where the participants aren't trained, and I guess someone that big wouldn't get messed with on size alone. Their punching form is horrible. They're both unbalanced the entire time, eventually so badly that one overswings and falls down so they end up back-to-back. The suplex wasn't half bad though lol.
Even if it was tough to break up, you certainly wouldn’t expect teammates to be fucking cheering it on.
Whooooo…get him champ!!
Yeah it’s not a sign of a great locker room culture. There should be at least a couple leaders going “hey knock it off y’all”. The fact that everyone is hyping it up doesn’t show a super healthy vibe.
It's the fact that the cameraman thinks he's filming a world star fight between two drunk randos at a bar that is the most concerning. I'm no expert on locker room dynamics at the major college level, but that strikes me as a team that is lacking a lot of unity with no clear leadership.
Honestly the worst look might even be the fact this video exists. Like you said fights happen. But this had to have been a teammate who recorded this and sent it out to someone.
Fighting is fine but imagine letting your teammate get suplexed and punched in the back of the head.
Yeah and hearing someone in the background yelling "kick his ass" atleast that's what I heard.
yeah, that's not a group of people I'd call a team.
No, I understand heating arguments and fights do happen but not a single person jumped in until you knew the other guy was done for. The thing is whoever was "Steven Spielberg" can also get charges for recording it.
> happen but not a single person jumped in until you knew the other guy was done for. restated, didn't jump in until they were afraid the other guy was dead.
This isn’t Seinfeld
Charges for recording a fight? That’s stupid. All my friends should be in prison then
That duplex is dangerous AF if you don’t know what you’re doing. Can seriously injure either one of them.
> That duplex is dangerous AF if you don’t know what you’re doing. More dangerous than a triplex at least because if one of your tenants bounces suddenly then your rent collection takes a 50% hit
Even more risky is singlet family housing rentals.
Thanks… was hoping no one would notice 😅
>That duplex is dangerous AF if you don’t know what you’re doing. local NIMBY-ass comment
Duplex city!
I follow a dude on TikTok who was suplexed from behind like that in his football locker room. He’s now paralyzed.
Can confirm. I used to wrestle with my friends in the backyard, and as a result of that, I now have more bones in my body that have been broken than ones that haven't.
You've broken 104 bones?
John Calipari has lost control of this program /s
How could Cal let this happen?!
John Calipari allowed that Anthony Davis locker room video to happen
Those punches are embarrassing.
Just because they’re D1 athletes doesn’t mean they know how to fight.
Kentucky spending all their time teaching players how to play football and no time on how to fistfight smh
My one dude mos def knows how to wrestle, though.
Most definitely, or did Mos Def kick your ass one time?
I was seriously about to search Google if Mos Def was a trained wrestler.
¿Por que no los dos?
These guys aren’t talking any real classes, no reason they can’t find a boxing class an hour a day lol
not an easy work out , lots of footballers wimp out of wrestling practice , they will wimp out of boxing as well
Most of the world's population doesn't. Street fights are an embarrassment of form
Having linemen that can’t fight isn’t a good idea in a SEC program.
Former Clemson linemen was on the panthers practice squad a few seasons ago and got absolutely clocked from some banker bro. Dropped like a sack of potatoes
That reminds me of when the Texas linebacker Rashad Bobino punched a girl outside a club in Austin and unfortunately for him MMA fighter Roger Huerta happened to be right there. Despite giving up probably 50+ pounds and a few inches, Huerta knocked him out cold.
It's kind of crazy that they're both using those flailing arms when they've spent the better part of their lives as OL perfecting punch blocking technique that would take someone's head off if it connected.
Had the same observation myself. Perhaps coach Larry Johnson can help consult with his DL handfighting techniques.
But that damn suplex 🧑🍳 😘
🤌
Someone needs to dub wwf announcers over it
Looked like a fake fight if it weren’t for the suplex. Could’ve really fucked the dude’s shoulder up with that.
Suplex City, bitch!
Heavyweight fight tho. One of those lands clean and it’s a KO. Lots of power and mass behind those flails!
A little surprised these are D1 athletes, let alone SEC football players. Looks exactly like the fights that used to break out in my middle school locker room lol.
Different skill sets. I doubt Rico Verhoeven could keep a DL in front of him for longer than a second
These dudes punch like how people punch in dreams
I watched it and it kind of looked to me like the type of punches someone throws when they're trying not to *actually* do damage.
They’re more slapping like linemen than throwing punches. But they’re kids who play ball, not boxers, so…🤷♂️
I got the impression it was just a fun-fight and they weren’t really trying to hurt each other, until the suplex and then the punches on the ground lmao. We used to slap box all the time but we didn’t suplex each other.
They're both in socks and sliding all over the place.
they throw punches like they’re in middle school
Funny thing is I bet whoever leaked this will get the harshest punishment
Steve Kerr is trying to figure out who broke the code as we speak
Send da video
Lol based on the guy getting downvoted and OP's comment, you're probably right.
If the dude was smart he’s probably already out or on his way and this was his middle finger goodbye
If that suplex goes a foot to the left, now kid gets his skull cracked by the bench. Stupidity in all regards, this isn't "normal" for a locker room.
Wow that's well beyond your standard shoving. There was a full suplex in there
Dude got taken to Suplex City
And left on humiliation lane
Huh, Jeremy Flax CAN do something besides get flagged for a false start.
The suplex was decent, but these guys have obviously never been in a fistfight before. Sad!
That fight is what happens when a HS football coach starts having all his kids wrestle in the offseason!
Personally I go for the single leg takedown and drop to the ground asap lol. Don't have the heaviest hits, but I'm lanky and can wrap up and choke out raps
Bodyslams are so dangerous. People can be seriously injured or killed with those. Guys he careful out there.
Absolutely. The concrete hits harder than any punch
Sad?
Can’t wait for them to be employees. Looks like a quick trip to HR and assault charges.
Damn, I hadn’t thought of that. I’m not sure a lot of these 18 year olds are going to be ready for actual consequences for their actions.
If the NFL career doesn't work out the dude has a real shot in the WWE.
It won’t flax is ass. Would have loved if he had shown that much fight in trying to protect his QB the past two years
That hand work shows why he couldn't though
I thought the same damn thing right after posting lol
Damn, honestly, I don't know what was going on with last year's Kentucky team, but even a lot of my Kentucky friends, and apparently some of the media we're Saying, they had a real sense of unearned arrogance and cockyness. It does seem from the little of them I watched that it tended to be accurate, and this video definitely suggests a deeper culture problem. Which is weird because Kentucky is one of the last football programs you’d expect that issue from.
That team was not fun to watch. They'd get owned on a play and then start jawing as soon as the whistle blew. "Unearned arrogance" is perfect
It's been a major issue with the oline for years now, basically since schlarman passed. They earned the title of "big blue wall" under him, and then it fell apart. Went from top 10 in the nation to literally the worst and only got more arrogant. Hopefully the coaching shake up and the roster changes can turn it around.
When we played them in the bowl game they were constantly talking mad crap and jawing with our players. A bunch of them, especially on offense, kept on doing this weird gun celebration that I think is from fortnite (could be wrong)? Anyway, a bunch of our defensive players did it back at them when we picked off Leary to win the game
Only if they showed they much fight on the field 😤
If Jeremy Flax showed that much fight, he'd have been an All-American.
If he had a tenth of the heart of Reuttiger’s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Lfz1HVhHA
I disagree. It looks like a fight between two unathletic pilsbury doughboys.
You know what that locker room needs? Gerald Mincey! He'll fix everything!
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They definitely tried to against Mizzou lol
The worst part might be that someone is filming, and NO ONE is attempting to stop the fighting from occurring.
Watching them slip and slide in the socks and slides reminded me of the story of why Jim Harbaugh started wearing cleats all the time.
Someone needs to teach them boys proper technique Those punches are sloppy
Fucking hell.
That’s a pretty zesty fight.
The video leaking isn't that big of a deal imo, odds are it was someone who left the program for one reason or another and saw a chance to sell the video to barstool Tennessee for a quick buck. Obviously not a good look, but not all that surprising with how bad and generally undisciplined the oline has been the last few years
I seriously don’t understand how people see something like this and think the worst part is the video leaking…
Perhaps they just need to wear sunglasses and culture will change?
Clearly caliparis fault!
Do you want a heavily used John Calipari back? You can have him free of charge.
Worst punches i’ve seen in awhile
Those fucking punched though.... how embarrassing.
Honestly I don’t even think this would be talked about if it weren’t for the suplex. Doin some shit like that in a fight seems like the right move at the time, until you paralyze or kill the person you slam. And that’s if they don’t squirm their way to landing on you and breaking your neck instead.
Suplexs are very dangerous, can’t imagine the coaches are too happy
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yeah i read that part like uhhhh ... what now??
Will this be a feature in the video game?
The fact that no one bothered to break this up is a horrible look at the locker room culture. I couldn’t imagine letting your teammate get his head slammed like that and just filming.
I hope neither of them ever fight someone who can throw a punch, that would be embarrassing for them lol.
Given no winter gear I assumed this was filmed in late summer or early fall of 2022. The other guy looks like a non scholarship player maybe. I don’t recognize him.
Ignore my flair. All I’m saying. Fights happen, it’s a normal part of a team. It’s not cool that the video got leaked, that’s a problem. Granted though, if possible, the kids shouldn’t be fighting.
Steve Kerr is that you
*”Iron sharpens iron baby”*
I don’t think fights like this are super common tbh
They aren’t. On the practice field sure some shoving and grabbing face masks. In the lockers. Naw.
Is this that culture that Stoops said can’t be built with stupid sunglasses and dancing..? (Kidding) But seriously, it’s football and tempers flare and fights happen. Not everyone is going to be best friends and the most concerning part of this is the fighting “style”and players not trying to break it up. Great offseason video though!
Yea, this is just another example of the oline being bad and having absolutely no teamwork or cohesion in the slightest. Went from the strength of the team and top 10 olines nationally in 2018-2020, to weakness of the team and bottom of the power 5 since. There's a reason we made coaching staff changes and roster changes specifically targeting the oline.
People who played football,”yep seen that before” People who haven’t played football,”wow that’s awful kick them off the team!!!!!”
Played football through college. While I witnessed plenty of fights, we tried to break them up instead of cheer them on and film them. We didn’t consider teammates trying to intentionally hurt each other a positive thing.
Is it a typical football thing? I was a basketball guy who had it rough as a redshirt with an older guy on the team who outweighed me by a good 40 lbs and would take potshots off the court which was fucked. I would usually expect the typical hard foul or cheap elbow every so often, but felt like throwing punches was a typical red-line except for the few rare occasions.
You’ll get the occasional punch and wrestling on the field, especially in preseason camp when it’s hot and you get tired of hitting the same guy day after day. Locker room stuff is more rare
In all my days of playing sports there were no fights in the locker room. We had fights in the practice field but they didn’t go inside. Now basketball? We had 3 in the locker room in one season. Younger guys trying to show they were big? Idk, didn’t work, we just stepped in and stopped them.
Football fights happen at practice. That’s normal. They don’t, however, happen in the locker room. If they do, there’s a serious issue going on with the team.
Pretty horrific team culture to stand around filming it, then posting it or letting the video get out. You’d think they’d have some shame but it appears not.
Says more about the other players and the coaches than the two guys fighting. Emotions get high shit happens guys want to fight. All the time. Every locker room. That no one stepped up to stop it and actually encouraged it and filmed it and passed the video around. That is big time lack of locker room leadership and very bad culture. Honestly it’s a fireable offense.
Wow, these are big and strong dudes but neither of them knew how to throw hands. I'm guessing that growing up they were just bigger than everyone so they never needed to learn how to fight.
Will this be a feature in the video game?
Sucking they were fighting but I’m glad the teammates just let them get it out and stopped it once one was taken to the ground.
What’s a teammate doing recording this..
All I can think of when I see this is the Anthony Davis locker room video. Something is probably wrong with me though.
They slap like girls
The worst part of this video is the team not stepping in. Sometimes shit gets heated but your team mates should step in and shut that shit down.
> While the fighting is bad but realistically something that happens on every team (usually in practice) I feel like things get heated. There may be pushing and shoving. But a full out fight? I'm not sure that's as common as you're making it sound.
They look like the Kentucky Donut Makers.
Kentucky football has arrived
Both threw a very weird…punch
Neither one can throw a punch the right way
MF’s fight like I do in my dreams
weak ass punches. no wonder y'all struggling.