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From Mike Johnson's article:
Matt sent this account of the incident as well:
This afternoon after the WWE house show in Victoria, my girlfriend and I went to see the wrestlers leave the arena (this was my girlfriend's first WWEevent and she wanted to see them leave). The following is exactly what happened right in front of me and about another 50 wrestling fans who happened to bethere are well:
Chris Jericho exited the building, and walked over to his white rental vehicle. The crowd watching him leave was heckling him, but he was ignoring it. He getsin his vehicle and drives out of the arena parking lot, right past the crowd of us. As Jericho stops at a stop sign, a fan runs into the street and startsbanging on his rental vehicle. At this point about 50 people rush into the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic in several directions, with no policeand very inadequate and incompetent security (no WWE security guards period). My girlfriend and I were literally in the very front of the crowd, and this allwent down literally five feet away from us.
Chris Jericho opens the door to his vehicle in the middle of the road, and the fan shuts the door back on him. Jericho then gets out of the vehicle completely,and punches the fan in the face! This prompts another fan to jump in (he was friends with the first) and attack Jericho, and Jericho scuffles with the secondguy. At this point, a woman who knows the second guy who attacked Jericho starts to jump in and get in Jericho's face (because he was fighting her friend).
This is where the Save on Foods Rent-A-Security Guards stopped standing around watching this happen (I swear they thought they were watching a wrestling angleor something), and stepped in to separate Jericho and the woman, who was shoving him. Looking at Jericho's face he was obviously ready to explode and wasrestraining himself...but then the sh**storm happened...
He spit in the girl's face, and curses at her. The woman then spit in Jericho's face. Jericho then started cursing out the woman some more, and wasgetting 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 ofthe 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 waswhere Jericho seriously snapped.
After bumping his head, Jericho went into a sh**storm, throwing and swinging at everybody around him. He knocked one guy to the ground, told another fan thathe was going to "f**king kill you". The woman who got spit on was still yelling at Jericho, so he pie faced her away from him (because the arenasecurity couldn't keep them separated). As soon as he put his hands on the woman, ANOTHER fan jumps in and starts swinging at Jericho. Jericho grabs theguy and starts throwing him to the ground, and at this point I have to yank my girlfriend out of the way and into some other people because Jericho hadliterally 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 grab Jericho and start yelling at him to calm down, to which Jericho responds bytaking 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 shoves the secondguard to the ground and tells him to "stay the f** off me".
Well, as that happens, the chick lunges at Jericho AGAIN, and this time Jericho actually punches the woman in the face, and shoves her to the ground. Thisstunned everyone, and the girl's friends ended up jumping in trying to fight Jericho, to which he fought all of them off, then storms into his vehicleswearing and speeds off, running through a stop sign in the process.
This whole thing happened over the span of about 5 minutes (of the street being blocked by this ordeal), and the woman ended up calling the cops on Jericho.They arrived 5 minutes after Jericho left, complete with a Paddy Wagon. The WWE's head of security did not see the incident, so he was there trying tofigure out what happened along with the cops at the same time while yapping on his cell phone, and the woman is pressing charges against Jericho. As crazy andunbelievable this sounds, it can all be backed up with whatever police report was filed on the scene this afternoon.
I hope this made sense, as a lot of stuff happened. If you have any questions or need clarification, just ask. This was taped by several people with cell phonecameras, but there were only 50 people down there so I hope the video makes it way to the internet. Regardless, this went down as one of the craziest things Ihave ever seen in my life.
Note from Mike: It certainly seems as if the incident was sparked by fans acting like morons as Jericho was attempting to leave the venue and made worse byinadequate security. It certainly read and looked to me as if Jericho felt he needed to defend himself and get away from the situation and after watching thevideo, I certainly don't blame him for feeling that way. By all appearances, this was obviously a situation where fans were crossing the line.
From Mike Johnson's article:
Matt sent this account of the incident as well:
This afternoon after the WWE house show in Victoria, my girlfriend and I went to see the wrestlers leave the arena (this was my girlfriend's first WWEevent and she wanted to see them leave). The following is exactly what happened right in front of me and about another 50 wrestling fans who happened to bethere are well:
Chris Jericho exited the building, and walked over to his white rental vehicle. The crowd watching him leave was heckling him, but he was ignoring it. He getsin his vehicle and drives out of the arena parking lot, right past the crowd of us. As Jericho stops at a stop sign, a fan runs into the street and startsbanging on his rental vehicle. At this point about 50 people rush into the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic in several directions, with no policeand very inadequate and incompetent security (no WWE security guards period). My girlfriend and I were literally in the very front of the crowd, and this allwent down literally five feet away from us.
Chris Jericho opens the door to his vehicle in the middle of the road, and the fan shuts the door back on him. Jericho then gets out of the vehicle completely,and punches the fan in the face! This prompts another fan to jump in (he was friends with the first) and attack Jericho, and Jericho scuffles with the secondguy. At this point, a woman who knows the second guy who attacked Jericho starts to jump in and get in Jericho's face (because he was fighting her friend).
This is where the Save on Foods Rent-A-Security Guards stopped standing around watching this happen (I swear they thought they were watching a wrestling angleor something), and stepped in to separate Jericho and the woman, who was shoving him. Looking at Jericho's face he was obviously ready to explode and wasrestraining himself...but then the sh**storm happened...
He spit in the girl's face, and curses at her. The woman then spit in Jericho's face. Jericho then started cursing out the woman some more, and wasgetting 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 ofthe 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 waswhere Jericho seriously snapped.
After bumping his head, Jericho went into a sh**storm, throwing and swinging at everybody around him. He knocked one guy to the ground, told another fan thathe was going to "f**king kill you". The woman who got spit on was still yelling at Jericho, so he pie faced her away from him (because the arenasecurity couldn't keep them separated). As soon as he put his hands on the woman, ANOTHER fan jumps in and starts swinging at Jericho. Jericho grabs theguy and starts throwing him to the ground, and at this point I have to yank my girlfriend out of the way and into some other people because Jericho hadliterally 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 grab Jericho and start yelling at him to calm down, to which Jericho responds bytaking 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 shoves the secondguard to the ground and tells him to "stay the f** off me".
Well, as that happens, the chick lunges at Jericho AGAIN, and this time Jericho actually punches the woman in the face, and shoves her to the ground. Thisstunned everyone, and the girl's friends ended up jumping in trying to fight Jericho, to which he fought all of them off, then storms into his vehicleswearing and speeds off, running through a stop sign in the process.
This whole thing happened over the span of about 5 minutes (of the street being blocked by this ordeal), and the woman ended up calling the cops on Jericho.They arrived 5 minutes after Jericho left, complete with a Paddy Wagon. The WWE's head of security did not see the incident, so he was there trying tofigure out what happened along with the cops at the same time while yapping on his cell phone, and the woman is pressing charges against Jericho. As crazy andunbelievable this sounds, it can all be backed up with whatever police report was filed on the scene this afternoon.
I hope this made sense, as a lot of stuff happened. If you have any questions or need clarification, just ask. This was taped by several people with cell phonecameras, but there were only 50 people down there so I hope the video makes it way to the internet. Regardless, this went down as one of the craziest things Ihave ever seen in my life.
Note from Mike: It certainly seems as if the incident was sparked by fans acting like morons as Jericho was attempting to leave the venue and made worse byinadequate security. It certainly read and looked to me as if Jericho felt he needed to defend himself and get away from the situation and after watching thevideo, I certainly don't blame him for feeling that way. By all appearances, this was obviously a situation where fans were crossing the line.
