{"id":389272,"date":"2021-07-01T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=389272"},"modified":"2021-07-01T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:10:22","slug":"justin-balboa-plans-to-have-joe-schilling-prosecuted-for-viral-barroom-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/justin-balboa-plans-to-have-joe-schilling-prosecuted-for-viral-barroom-knockout\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Balboa plans to have Joe Schilling prosecuted for viral barroom knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Balboa, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/joe-schilling-brutally-knocks-out-bar-patron-claims-self-defense-video\/\">knocked out by Joe Schilling<\/a> in a recent barroom brawl, intends to prosecute Schilling in court.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days video footage has emerged of Balboa, who was clearly intoxicated, being knocked out cold by Schilling &#8211; a former GLORY and Bellator fighter. Schilling has claimed it was self defense, putting out the following now-deleted post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle context: This guy\u2019s rapping like an idiot,\u201d Schilling wrote. \u201cThe buss boy who happens to be black walks by, and this idiot bumps into him and screams out, \u2018Me and broke n****s, we don\u2019t get along.\u2019 The busboy was seriously offended but doesn\u2019t want to lose his job. As the night goes on, this clown starts looking at me and rapping whatever song is being played while making eye contact with me. I\u2019m like, what\u2019s wrong with this idiot? I go outside to smoke and as I\u2019m walking back in, he bumps into me. I put my hand out to catch him. He immediately says \u2018I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 You can see me nod my head like, cool.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Footage emerged of former GLORY Tournament Champion &amp; Bellator fighter Joe Schilling assaulting a man in a bar dispute. The fighter took it to social media and claims it was self-defense, during a &quot;life-threatening experience&quot;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cybXpPJWFT\">pic.twitter.com\/cybXpPJWFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Beyond Kickboxing (@Beyond_Kick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Beyond_Kick\/status\/1409546916925485061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen he realizes it\u2019s me, the guy he\u2019s been rapping at all night and yells, \u2018HEY.\u2019 I turn around, and he flexes on me. \u2026 Bad decisions are made every day. I went back and sat down to finish my drink and pay my bill. Two servers, the busboy and DJ came up to thank me. As you can see from this video when he flexed on me, I was scared for my life and simply defending myself against the evil in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balboa&#8217;s lawyer released the following statement in response, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/06\/joe-schilling-bar-incident-knockout-video-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a>, after it was confirmed that Balboa wants to &#8220;prosecute&#8221; Schilling after watching the video again whilst speaking with the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should not have happened,\u201d Solomon said. \u201cYou watch that video and you cringe. This is a professional fighter. To tell me you felt threatened as a professional fighter that\u2019s fighting in the highest level of all the fighting, Bellator and all these things, I don\u2019t buy it. I think it was uncalled for, and there\u2019s consequences when you do things like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a professional fighter overreacted to a situation, that he didn\u2019t need to do what he did, and to punch somebody as hard as he punched this guy, he\u2019s lucky he\u2019s not dead and we\u2019re dealing with a different type of case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts on this incident? Let us know in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Balboa, who was knocked out by Joe Schilling in a recent barroom brawl, intends to prosecute Schilling in court. In recent days video footage has emerged of Balboa, who was clearly intoxicated, being knocked out cold by Schilling &#8211; a former GLORY and Bellator fighter. Schilling has claimed it was self defense, putting out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":389273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10086],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Justin Balboa plans to have Joe Schilling prosecuted for viral barroom knockout | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justin Balboa, who was knocked out by Joe Schilling in a recent barroom brawl, intends to prosecute Schilling in court.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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