I think Joe Shilling was chasing after that internet clout since the Orlando Sanchez & Sean Strickland incident video went viral.
A simple push wouldāve had drunk guy on his butt
Matt Serra was subdued a drunk without throwing a punch.
Joe was looking for a fight.
No dork. He obviously thought you were calling him out trying to flinch people.
Flinch at me bro.
Let me be the voice of reason here. In a perverse way I actually enjoy the idea of some rando starting shit with a fighter and getting his ass handed to him. So I like these videos, on level one. But that said, this is not excusable on JSās part. By Joeās own admission he already had a gripe with the guy before the encounter. The tie guy was drunk and acting foolish, but normally you just let the guy be drunk and foolish, and if he truly gets out of line then itās up to the management and/or the police to handle it.
From the looks of this, Schilling appears to be looking for a provocation to assault the guy. You can see it on his face and in his demeanor throughout. He didnāt excuse himself past the guy- he gave him a push as he went past, and when the accountant objected JS wheeled around immediately and got right up in his grill. He knew the guy was drunk and being stupid (how many of us are innocent of having ever done that?), and when the guy did the little feint he used that as justification to destroy him. This claim about him feeling in fear of his life just discredits his entire claim. The guy was a normal and was half his size. Being a fighter, he knows that heās capable of killing or seriously injuring regular people, and so thereās a responsibility that should go along with that.
I once trained at Dan Hendersonās gym. Try and imagine Dan Henderson doing THAT. Yeah I know he was famously in a bar fight, but it was him and Randy against 12 guys. Come on. This Schilling guy is a loser, clearly. He probably has nothing to lose in a lawsuit anyhow. But he should be criminally charged. He went way over the top in ādefendingā himself, and he legit could have killed that man with what he did, and for what?
And finally, to this claim about how another MMA fighter got killed by a sucker punch, that is irrelevant here. I doubt that suit could hurt JS and JS knew it. By that logic you could KO a 12 y/o girl and say āHow would I know she didnāt have a knife?ā. Iām not saying that Joe Schill has to stand there and absorb 5 free shots before retaliating. But he could have dealt with that dude in a more responsible manner than to blast him into Kingdom Come. I hope heās better than what he just showed the world. He deserves to face consequences for this. Most fighters Iāve ever known or met would consider themselves above doing something like this to a 5ā3" midget.
VU
great post
Bisping took a punch to the face and laughed it up, even though he couldve destroyed the twat. Then again, different environment and context. He couldve been jumped by others and called a racist.
lol at flinchingā¦ that supposed flinching happened at the same time he was 0.01 seconds away from getting KOd
This fāing guy is Christian Bale in Shaft.
Donāt flinch on a guy whoās trained to react to attacks.
Schilling looked pissed already walking towards the guy. The guy didnāt really bump into him, he was just in Joeās path. This happens a million times in bars. If he would have just altered his path instead of pushing the guy it could have been avoided. Once the contact happened, it appears the guy did say something and possibly flinched. Obviously a big mistake. In my opinion, Joe initiated it but the guy was an idiot for whatever he said and flinched. I put more blame on Joe for starting it and should know better than to be so quick to throw down outside the cage/ring
Former Bellator fighter Joe Schilling is potentially facing one misdemeanor charge of simple battery after his alleged altercation with a man at a Florida bar went viral.
Schilling, 37, was caught on video knocking out a man who later identified himself as Justin Balboa on Sunday night at a bar in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. According to a police report obtained by MMA Fighting, Balboa told officers that he is a 31-year-old busboy who works at an Outback Steakhouse restaurant.
Representatives with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department initially made contact with Balboa on Sunday night. Balboa had a bloody lip and described Schilling as a 6-foot-5, 270-pound white male who ājust hit him for no reason.ā Balboa āwould not elaborate on how or why the male punched him,ā according to the police report, but was āobviously intoxicated.ā That same night Balboa told officers that he āonly wanted the incident documented in order to file a civil suit against the establishment.ā
Officers also spoke to the manager of the bar on Sunday night. The manager stated that Balboa āwas extremely intoxicated and had possibly made an improper remark about the girlfriend/wife of the male who had struck him, which caused the fight to escalate.ā The manager also noted that Balboa āis a regular customer who routinely causes problems at the establishment due to his intoxication level.ā
According to the police report, ānumerous other patrons of the establishment corroborated the managerās story,ā stating that Balboa started the altercation.
Balboa subsequently spoke with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department for a follow-up conversation on Monday after watching a video of his altercation with Schilling online. After seeing the video, Balboa told officers that he changed his mind and wished to prosecute Schilling for the alleged attack.
āIt was something that should not have happened,ā Balboaās attorney, Robert Solomon, told MMA Fighting. āIt should not have happened. You watch that video and you cringe. This is a professional fighter. To tell me you felt threatened as a professional fighter thatās fighting in the highest level of all the fighting, Bellator and all these things, I donāt buy it. I think it was uncalled for, and thereās consequences when you do things like that.
āI think a professional fighter overreacted to a situation, that he didnāt need to do what he did,ā Solomon added, āand to punch somebody as hard as he punched this guy, heās lucky heās not dead and weāre dealing with a different type of case.ā
Solomon said that Balboa went to the hospital following the incident. āHeās got, right now, a head injury,ā Solomon said. āWe donāt know the extent of it.ā
MMA Fightingās attempts to contact Schilling were unsuccessful. Schilling wrote on Instagram on Monday that he was āscared for his lifeā during the incident and was āsimply defending myself against the evil in this world.ā
Casey Liening, a representative for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, told MMA Fighting on Tuesday that no charges have been formally filed by Balboa at the time of this writing.
āAs far as weāre concerned, the status of this case is on the victimās shoulders right now,ā Liening said. āHe has to make the effort to file the case with the state attorneyās office, and then itāll go from there.ā
TKnuckles, looks like you may lose the bet against Tim Duncan
If this guy routinely causes problems due to intoxication at the establishment, as they have claimed, then the fact that they have continued to serve him rather than banishing him makes them partially liable for this, by my lights. They must not have spoken to an attorney before putting that on record. No lawyer would allow them to shit the bed like that. And Schilling himself is a knucklehead for posting the video on Instagram and making boasting public statements about what he did. Iām sure that wonāt come back to haunt him in court!