On the back of rumors that they are ready to fight each other in an amateur boxing match, former baseball stars John Rocker and Pat Mahomes SR have seen each other who are confronted with a Bourbon Street -bar in New Orleans.
Mahomes Sr was in the city to see how his son, Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, played in Super Bowl Lixt against the Philadelphia Eagles – a match that the Chiefs eventually lost.
In a video that seems to have been taken somewhere during the Super Bowl week, Mahomes Sr and Rocker saw each other confront each other on the street.
The two seemed to attack each other physically before they were separated by bystanders. One person seemed to recognize Rocker.
While Mahomes Sr. Was pulled away, Rocker threw his cup full of ice at him before he walked away.
This video comes to the fore in the aftermath of an exclusive report from DailyMail.com that Rocker and Mahomes SR will fight against each other at one of Barrestool Sports' Rough N 'Rowdy' promotions.
Ex-MLB-Duurers John Rocker (L) and Pat Mahomes Sr (R) were seen in a confrontation
Mahomes Sr (seen with son Patrick Mahomes (r)) is set to fight Rocker in a boxing match
Barrestool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has revealed that Mahomes SR has been set for a boxing fight
Mahomes Sr was arrested for driving while he was drunk in Texas in February last year,
Barrestool Sports founder Dave Portnoy seemed to confirm that a fight between the two former rival -ranging pitchers was in the making.
When asked whether the rumor of 54-year-old Mahomes Sr fights was true, Portnoy said, “That is a actually rumor.”
He was then interviewed about the 50-year-old rocker and added: “Yes, so you're working on it with your rumors.”
He was then asked if the fight was official and revealed: 'I don't know, that's why I don't want it to be torn. I think it's! I believe we have a signed agreement for Mahomes SR to fight John Rocker at Rough n Rowdy.
“I think it's 100%, but I haven't seen the signed paperwork yet.”
Rocker and Mahomes SR were members of rival teams in the 1999 and 2000 seasons – with Rocker on the Braves and Mahomes SR on the Mets.
Mahomes SR last played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2003, but has recently been achieved the headlines for the wrong reasons.
He was arrested for driving while he was drunk in 2008, 2019 and 2024, and was banned last year after he was found on the roads without a valid driver's license.
He spent 10 days in prison and is now under 'Intent Supervision' in his first year of probation.
Rocker (seen in 2000) is known for making controversial racist and homophobic comments
Mets -fans protest at the 7 -train station outside Shea Stadium for a competition in June 2000
Rocker is also known for its controversies. In an interview in 1999 with Jeff Pearlman of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made a series of racist and homophobic statements in a very published and discussed interview.
Rocker, who was at the Atlanta Braves at the time, called Curacaoa teammate Randall A 'Fat Monkey' and used racial stereotypes for Asian women riding on the road.
When asked by Pearlman if he had ever played for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets, Rocker gave a notorious quote and called it “the most hectic, nerve -racking city” and that he would retire before he played there.
'Imagine having to take the 7 train to the margin (Shea Stadium, former house of the Mets) that looks like you are driving through Beirut next to a child with purple hair, next to some weird with AIDS, right next to a guy That a guy I just got out of prison just for the fourth time, right next to a 20-year-old mother with four children. It is depressing.
Rocker added: 'The largest I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk a whole block on Times Square and don't hear anyone who speaks English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish and everything above it. How the hell did they get in this country? '
MLB Commissioner Bud Selige has suspended Rocker without payment for the entire spring training -as well as the first 28 games of the 2000 season. After a profession, the suspension was reduced to 14 games in the season.
Rocker's comments did not go well with Mets -fans – with whom Rocker already had a controversial relationship. Elsewhere in the Pearlman piece, the pitcher referred to Mets fans as 'degenerates'.
In addition to his controversial comments – both made in the Pearlman piece and in several cases later – Rocker admitted that he used steroids during his career and said: 'Yes, of course I was of course [using steroids]. I mean, who wasn't that? Let's be honest here, who doesn't? '
Since it retires, Rocker (L) has made several performances at Reality TV (seen in Survivor)
The father of the Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback will fight Rocker at Barstool's Rough N 'Rowdy
Mahomes Sr was spotted in and around New Orleans before the big game during the week.
He was seen on Thursday evening in a casino in the city, next to his ex-wife Randi and his son Jackson, who is involved in legal issues.
In March last year, Jackson was sentenced to six months conditional after he had declared guilty in February 2023 on a battery of a waiter in a restaurant in Kansas.
In the case, more serious accusations of aggravated sexual battery were withdrawn after the supposed victim – the owner of the restaurant – could not work together and refused to testify in the case.
The woman later reported that she had endured death threats and had her restaurant destroyed. In August 2023 she closed the restaurant.
