Wrestler Chris Jericho punches woman in the face
SPORTSbyBROOKS.com has the insane video of wrestler Chris Jericho punching a woman in the face after leaving a WWE show in Victoria on Saturday.
An eye-witness describes the incident after the video.
He spat in the girl’s face, and called her a “f—ing bitch.” The woman spat in Jericho’s face. Jericho started cursing out the woman some more, and was getting ready to go back into his vehicle (as all of this is still happening in the middle of the road). While he was turning to go into his vehicle, one of the guys he was fighting shoved Jericho against his car. Another guy then shoved Jericho, and that time he bumped his head on the top of his vehicle. This was where Jericho seriously snapped.
After bumping his head, Jericho went into a sh*t storm, throwing and swinging at everybody around him. He knocked one guy to the ground, told another fan that he was going to “f—ing kill you.” The woman who got spit on was still yelling at Jericho, so he pie-faced her away from him (because the arena security couldn’t keep them separated). As soon as he put his hands on the woman, another fan jumped in and started swinging at Jericho. Jericho grabbed the guy and started throwing him to the ground, and at this point I had to yank my girlfriend out of the way and into some other people because Jericho had literally thrown himself and the other guy into our direction and we would of been knocked down by the scuffle.
The arena security try again at this point to regain order, and two of them grabbed Jericho and started yelling at him to calm down. Jericho responded by taking a swing at one of the security guards and yelling at them to “do your f—ing job and get the f—ing police here.” Then he shoved the second guard to the ground and told him to “stay the f— off me”.
Well, as that happens, the chick lunged at Jericho AGAIN, and this time Jericho actually punched the woman in the face, and shoved her to the ground. This stunned everyone, and the girl’s friends ended up jumping in trying to fight Jericho, to which he fought all of them off, then stormed into his vehicle swearing and sped off, running through a stop sign in the process.
Apparently these fans were upset at Jericho for making statements on the WWE show and decided to attack him in mob-like fashion. Let’s rewind. Jericho’s character made remarks on the show that pissed fans off, so they decided to attack him.
Punching a woman in the face is unacceptable in any circumstance. But these security guards clearly offered him zero help in getting him off the premise and Jericho took matters into his own hands. This looks like a case of complete self-defense.
A note to wrestling fans: IT’S NOT REAL. What these characters say on the show isn’t real – they’re acting. Get a grip.
Throw a bunch of morons together, add a little roid rage, huge ego and a dash of inept security, and this is your result.
If a woman is going to push someone and instigate a confrontation, she deserves everything she has coming to her.
The description in the post from the onlooker is much more vivid than the actual video.
I remember being a fan of Chris Jericho as a kid. He was definitely always one of the better-spoken and brighter ones (outside the ring, that is.) Makes sense that idiots would antagonize him for what his character does on those shows.
Still, the description makes him sound like a bad ass. If five or so people won’t let you leave and have the indecency to criticizing you in front of your face, then you can do whatever you want.
Knowing Vince McMahon though, this was probably all planned and was just an attempt to progress a character angle on the show.
I’m kidding, obviously. Don’t beat me up Sarah Palin supporters.
You don’t punch a woman unless she’s coming at you with a weapon. You might push her off, but he took a swing at her.
I completely agree, John. He should, and will, be punished. But he should be should be punished accordingly.
As the video neglects to show, the description implies that he had about five guys on him. What the video does show is that security did absolutely nothing.
In reading the description, Jericho apparently had to fight away a few dudes before his punched this woman. In the video, this woman was the one who continued to get physical with Jericho. Security failed to put an end to her abusing Jericho. Now I can’t get into this guy’s headspace, but obviously he just snapped and put an end to this girl continuously taunting him by harming her. He obviously took it too far and should have just taken a few more hits/shoves from this girl, gotten in his car, and driven away from the incident.
He should be punished, but not in the way your typical misogynist is. I agree with Anthony that this looks like a case of complete self-defense. Although wrestling fans may be less “dignified” than others, these types of altercations happen at many professional sporting events. Fans of both XY and XX chromosomal constitution become feral morons under the influence of alcohol (or the influence of wrestling).
Domestic abuse, steroid use, an endless stream of women, mind-altering amounts of money, and a constantly rolling public coverage of your life. Nope, I’m not talking about your friends Dave and Mike, I’m talking about athletes. I never understood why anybody would really go to great efforts to meet them. What they do is visually stunning. Athletes remind us of how versatile and resilient the human body is. But famous athletes are usually the most vapid and screwed up people on the planet. Thanks to the Internet, we get to see it. And while you or I may take the occasional bong rip at Danny’s party, our pictures don’t get plastered on the Internet and we don’t lose our cereal endorsements. Currently, I’m sponsored by Corn Pops, Rice Krispies, Lucky Charms, and the Albertson’s knock-off brands. After this thread, I won’t have any.
If you really want to meet Chris Jericho say, “Hey, you suck” or “Hey, nice match.” They’re actors who work out a lot. Do you really need to socialize with them.
If you meet Tom Cruise say, “Hey, you’re Tom Cruise.” What else could you say?
If you meet Michael Phelps say, “Hey, thanks for entertaining me for a whole Summer.” Does he really seem like that interesting of a guy? If you get to smoke weed with then hey, that’s a pretty cool story you’ll have to tell your kids when they’re watching a future Olympics. “See that man in the stands Ricky, that’s Michael Phelps. He holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics. He had to retire early because Daddy got stoned out of his mind with him while I was studying sports medicine in England.”
This has obviously gone completely off-topic but in my experience the best time to approach athletes is after they’ve retired. I mean, what else would you want to talk with them about other than sports? They’re usually pretty open and they even find it entertaining reminiscing about old games and such.
You can tell I had the day off from work today.
Fuck that! I don’t give a rats ass whether it’s a woman, a man or some little bitch boy. If anybody lays their hands on you that you did not give permission to touch you then they are at fault. And if these rednecks can’t decipher reality from Ficton then they deserve some sense knocked into them. Nothing will happen to Jericho legally because he didn’t instigate anything. That’s where our system is fucked up. If a girl is hitting you and you defend yourself, you are looked at as the bad person. If anybody should get a charge it should be the girl for Assault/Battry for unlawfully touching another individual. Andthe rest of the crowd for being inbred retarded swine.
There was nothing stopping him from getting in his car and closing the door. He didn’t need to hit that woman even if she was in his face.
No there was. There were still fans that wanted pictures and what not.He toldsecurity to take a few people away and he was socializing with the fans. I can’t stand Chris Jericho, I think he is a smug bastard who’s way to into himself, but he was in the right. He was bein with the fans, and security didn’t take the few bad apples away. And you can’t tell if he did hit the woman. All you can see is he swung. Most girls won’t get up from a normal guy punching you. Now throw a body building wrestler into the mix. That girl wouldn’t get up i it truly happened.
“There were still fans that wanted pictures and what not.”
How does that stop a guy as big and as strong as Jericho from getting into his car and leaving? If he didn’t want to be there or if he wanted to get away from that woman he should have simply closed the door and left. There’s no reason to take a swing at that woman. She didn’t have a weapon and he wasn’t in any danger. Had he connected he could have killed her. What’s the point?
I agree with John – unless she’s wielding some kind of weapon (whatever it may be), there’s no defense for punching a woman. The security team didn’t do their jobs and things look liked they escalated very quickly.
I don’t blame Jericho for taking matters into his own hands, but taking a swing at a woman just isn’t right – sorry.
John Paulsen and Anthony Stalter you guys are both idiots.
Women these days make me sick, thinking they can attack a man and then hide behind their vaginas once they succeed in provoking him.
I’m glad she got punched in the face. It didn’t look like he solidly connected with it though…too bad.
John and I are both idiots because we don’t think that it’s right to punch a woman in the freaking face unless she’s wielding a weapon?
Wow.
“Women these days make me sick…”
Logic has spoken!
What makes me laugh is some dumbass keeps saying “Can I get a picture with you?” While other people are screaming at him and theres shoving back and forth.
Sure girl. As soon as everyone polietly backs up, i’ll be more then glad to take a picture.
Stupid people.
The bitch got what she ask for .I met Chris more then once he is a very nice sweet man .She started this and he had a right to defend himself.