Phoenix Jones is somebody who has come up once or twice around here.
And now he’s apparently beating up racists, so, really, good for him. And he didn’t get arrested this time, either!
There are three things you need to know before watching this:
1. Jones is an undefeated professional MMA fighter.
2. Washington State has a standing law allowing “mutual combat”, meaning if two people want to go at it, they can if they both agree to do so in front of authorities.
3. Jones’ opponent is a possibly drunk man shouting racist epithets who is decidedly NOT an MMA fighter.
The fun starts at the 6:30 mark, and it’s a bit like watching a train wreck. It’s blatantly obvious that Orange Shirt Racist Guy is outmatched, but he seems to believe he’ll win. The best part is that Jones and his fellow superheroes try to walk away, as you can see earlier in the video, and this guy and his friends followed him and actually picked the fight.
Here’s the video…
Yeah, Racist Orange Shirt Guy got one-punched. And, like we said, this is totally legal under Washington state law. You might notice that the police are actually watching this and doing a good job of not laughing.
Reports MyNorthwest.com:
Jones had called 911 and tried to defuse the situation. It was only when the man threatened Phoenix and said he’d follow him home that Phoenix agreed to fight his aggressor.
“I’m not going to let someone follow me to my house,” said Phoenix in an interview with The Dori Monson Show. “I’m not letting some guy who’s violent with other people follow me home. It’s not going to happen. If it had just been about him calling me the N-word, I would have walked it off, like I told the cops. It was just, the cop had said he was going to let that guy follow me. No one is going to follow me.”
In short, a jerk got decked by a super-hero after deliberately picking a fight with him. We love the twenty-first century.
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For a while there it was looking like Jones was gonna be forced into retiring from the superhero gig. There were a string of really bad ideas. You know, beyond dressing up like a superhero and fighting crime in real life.
To be fair, a lot of these guys are just the neighborhood watch in a funny outfit; they call 911, serve as witnesses, and don’t get involved. And Jones tried MIGHTILY not to fight this guy, probably because he knew he’d beat him like a veal.
The dude in the orange shirt got the beating he needed. And the beating he deserved.
I like when one of the super hero guys says, “I hate people”.
Heh, yeah,
That little dude. He needs to be humbled by the Iron Sheik.
Dude, if his “homie” called “quits”, then he’s totally justified.
I just want to know how it was a cheap shot when they were both squaring off.
I think calling quits is only reserved for fights with your older brother.
There are not timeouts in a streetfight. When you make a bad decision, you see it through. This guy… whether or not he realized he was outclassed before the KO or after, begged to fight. He got precisely what he asked for.
I just wish Jones would have fought that 110lbs of fury and mouth at the end.
AB…not according to the law. IT is even explained on thie video that the fight must stop when one wants to.
Wasn’t willing to go round 2 with racist #2?
I think Jones was trying to make a larger point re: being a jackass to people will inevitably get you in trouble.
As soon as you can show me ONE thing either of them said that was racist, then you will have some credibility back.
@Iakawak
8:05 – “You’re a b*tch ass n*****”
Was really hoping for a leg kick TKO. Leave him conscious but crippled for a few days.
I’m perfectly happy with the leg kick warning shots. You can tell Jones is trying to warn this guy that he’s going to wreck him if he doesn’t stop with those. Hint: NOT TAKEN.
Actually, a body/liver shot KO would be best. Shuts down the body, keeps the brain awake. Then again, I watch Bas Rutten videos all day, so I appreciate a good “leever shot”.
You’d think his fighting stance would have been a clue… You don’t see a lot of bar brawlers that dance like that before they punch your skull in.
Drunk or not, I would’ve definitely taken the boxer bounce and the leg kicks (especially the one that almost knocked the guy’s leg out from under him) as a sign that I probably ought to rethink what I was doing.
My avatar was hoping for the leg kick TKO too.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER, get into a fight with someone that has cauliflower ears.
Chris Tucker voice “You got knocked the F%$k out!!!”
I’m just waiting for the inevitable LL Cool J backing track.
you know it’s a bad day when wearing an orange t shirt out is only your second worse decision.
We hear a lot of shit about terrible laws, but seriously, “mutual combat” is probably the coolest law I’ve ever heard of. Washington, you’re doing it right.
It is the second “cool” law I’ve heard about since last week.
So let’s check the score:
Washington – Legalized Marijuana, Mutual Combat
Other states – not so much
Yup, winner: Washington.
At the 4 minute mark the annoying guy in the black cap throws down a VICIOUS back to back “Dawg” followed by “Bro” to end his sentences.
I’m pretty sure Dawgbro was an Awesome Studios superhero from the ’90s. He was a rapper who could turn into any breed of dog and also had metal claws.
Drunk people make the best decisions. Did those cops not expect his friends to get riled up and want to fight Jones?
The cops are fairly familiar with Jones and his friends at this point: He’s been arrested a few times for trying to break up street fights and the like. I’m going to take a wild guess and say they’re also familiar with this guy and his friends, and this isn’t the first time one or more of them has gotten their asses kicked by somebody they’ve picked a fight with.
Did anyone hear whether or not that gut’s homie called quits?
Phoenix: “Walk away. Just walk away.”
Other Guy: “YOU walk away.”
Phoenix: “We ARE walking away. You’re FOLLOWING us.”
People say some dumb shit when they’re riled up.
See, if Phoenix could have managed a Lord Humongous voice, none of this would have happened.
If you pick a fight with a random dude and then realize he’s a skilled fighter, I understand being upset after the fact or claiming that you wanted to end the fight after realizing that you’re literally punching out of your weight class. But, when you pick a fight with Phoenix Jones, a well known vigilante and trained fighter and you’ve been given every opportunity to walk away….once that fight starts, you don’t get to “call quits”. You didn’t get suckered into anything, you got the exact bill of goods you ordered. Period.
What’s up with the little hype man in the navy hoodie? He talks and talks and talks, then freaks out when he’s buddy gets knocked out? I loathe guys like him.
the only guy i heard being a racist was the dude who spazzed out after Orange Shirt got laid out…
According to the video description, there’s another video (being held for potential evidence) with Orange Shirt using a bunch of racial epithets before this video starts.
Even that guy didn’t say anything racist.
He was screaming “bitch ass n***** at the end”
Dissident, you’re crazy. That’s clearly friendly banter.
you’re absolutely right. that’s how i regularly greet my black friends.
jkkk i don’t have black friends.
Racist should have just laid down, there is no up and quitting in the middle of a street fight.
The law says you cant hit him while hes down so thats basically throwing in the towel.
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Hey, Lakawak, you’re entitled to your opinion. You’re not entitled to be a jackass. Keep it civil or take it elsewhere. -DS
Why do white guys always need to take off their shirt?
They’re trying to intimidate people with their abs?
hahahahahahaahaha got shown the way. Got to say though great to see guys squaring off one on one. Not no guys hitting women, or rushing one guy or anything like that. It was good, in all fairness I rate everyone for being able to stick to the one on one rule. Old school fights are best. Orange got what he needed for the night of his life. ahahahaa
This was some delicious grade A schadenfreude. My cold black heart has been satiated for the day.
Like orange shirt guy’s buddy said, he obviously called quitsies. That KO was no fair.
In a stand-up fight, quitsies doesn’t exist. Someone upthread said that if orange fight REALLY wanted to quit, he would have laid down or raised his arms above his head and that’s exactly right. Anything said in a fight is either shit-talk or prelude to a cheap shot.
That said, he should have seen Jones’ footwork and realized that this wasn’t happening, even a little. A drunken bar brawl is one thing, a drunk guy fighting a sober guy is another, and a drunk guy fighting a sober, experienced fighter is quite another. I’ve seen a few bar fights and usually if one guy realizes that he’s going to get hurt, bad, he’ll just take a dive and grab his head, or in one case,lock himself in the bathroom.
Shameful shit, but it beats waking up to a couple hundred “Saw you on YouTube bro” texts.
And man, I wish this happened to every dickhead who thinks it’s a rad idea to be a huge racist asshole.
Again, racist asshole…where was the racism in this video? Other than the title which implies that you can NEVER say anything bad about a particualr black person without being racist?
It was in the audio track, which you apparently had muted.
lakawak- Both orange shirt and the second guy pretty clearly toss out some racial slurs at several points. And I’d suspect that’s a bit of why the cops let this go to “mutual combat.”
If he threw a punch, whatver, he gets a slap on the wrist, maybe probation. But to throw a punch AFTER screaming out racial slurs, on the street, recorded, in front of cops? That becomes a hate crime and that becomes years inside. So he actually lucked out pretty good that PJ didn’t do more to him and that the cops let him go.
Hope you got your shirt back.
There wasn’t ONE word on this carefully timed video that was even REMOTELY racist. So it seems to me like this is one of those situations where black people (who are a trillion times more racist than the average white person) claims that you can;t EVER say anything bad about a black person, or disagree with a black person, whithout being racist.
Oh hey guy that got his ass kicked in the video! You should probably just walk away. Your yippy little shirtless friend clearly dropped several n-bombs at the end after you got knocked the hell out.
N-Bombed at 8:07 and possibly 8:12.
You’re defending the guy who pretty clearly screamed racial slurs, then threatened to follow a guy home and hurt him?
I didn’t see any racism in this video. Well unless you count disliking people because they are in super hero costumes as racism.
As noted, there’s a video being held for evidence currently of the men shouting racial slurs at passing cars. It’s why the cops were called in the first place, actually.
Since when is using the n-word NOT racist?
Well, besides 1962, I mean.
otheym, did you get your orange shirt back?
video is mad boring tell these ppl where to fast forward too.
What video are people watching? The little yippy “Hey Spike” white guy at the end repeatedly shouts “You’re a bitch ass Nigger”.
He’s not saying anything we all haven’t heard on a gangster rap track, but it still counts as ‘racist’.
The Orange Gorilla is obviously not apart of Rex Velvet’s Gang
Of course not. Rex Velvet is evil, but he has STANDARDS.
Rex Velvet knows that the cunning warrior attacks neither body nor mind but the heart.