Chris Brown - Drake night club brawl over Rihanna

Chris Brown tweeted a picture of his injury after alleged fracas with Drake. Copyright [Twitter/Chris Brown]

Hip-hop rivals Chris Brown and Drake turned a New York City nightclub into a war zone that sent four innocent bystanders to the hospital early Thursday when they started a brutal brawl over the pop music diva Rihanna. 

One of the club-goers caught in the middle was Hollie C, an Australian tourist who was rushed to Bellevue Hospital after she was smashed in the head with a flying bottle during the fight.

A gruesome photo shows a gash in her head and her face covered with blood. She needed 16 stitches to close the wound.

Witnesses say the two recording stars started fighting after Chris Brown sent Drake a bottle of Champagne as a peace offering. Drake reportedly sent the bottle back with a note: 'I'm f****** the love of your life, deal with it.'

Horrific: Hollie C, a 24-year-old Australian tourist, received 16 stitches to close a head wound she received when she was hit with a flying bottle during the fight

As they were squaring off, someone -- police don't know who yet -- threw a bottle.

Drake, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, was not in the group that confronted Chris Brown, NYPD Lt John Grimple told Mail Online.  

Hollie, the injured tourist, told TMZ.com she went to W.i.P. with friends on Wednesday night, unaware they were sitting in between two angry rappers and their entourages.

Suddenly, all hell broke loose.

'Within a few moments of noticing glass being thrown around, I saw a glass bottle headed towards me, consequently hitting me in the head.' she told TMZ.

'I immediately started to bleed and proceeded to fall in and out of consciousness.'

She was one of eight people treated as a result of the fight. Hollie and four others had nothing to do with the bar brawl.

Big Pat, is Chris Brown's bodyguard,. A photo shows him laying in a hospital bed with a bloody, wound on his head. 

Chris Brown was also injured. He posted a picture of a gash on his chin -- apparently sustained from the fight with Drake.

His female companion was hurt, as well.

Brown allegedly flew into a rage after Drake taunted him by returning a bottle of champagne he'd sent over as 'peace offering' with a note reading:  'I'm f****** the love of your life, deal with it'.

Drake's crude response was clearly a reference to Brown's ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

According to website Global Grind, Chris reportedly flew into a rage and confronted Drake. 

Drake allegedly threw a punch but before the singer could retaliate, another man hit Brown in the face with a bottle.

A source told the New York Post: 'They were on opposite sides of the room, Drake went over to the middle of the club to talk to someone, then words were exchanged with Chris and his entourage.

The source said someone from Drake's entourage, possibly the singer himself, threw a bottle.

'Once the bottle was thrown, all hell broke loose and there were more bottles thrown.'

Gruesome: Chris Brown's bodyguard, Big Pat, recovers from a head wound he received during the bar fight.

Chris Brown, 23, dated Rihanna until she dumped him after he savagely beat her on the eve of her performance at the Grammy Awards in 2009. After their breakup, the beauty from Barbados was romantically linked with rapper Drake. 

Reports indicate Rihanna, 24, is in the process of getting back together with Chris Brown. 

The New York Police Department is investigating the fight, which broke out at Club W.i.P in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. 

A spokesman said investigators believe Chris Brown, his bodyguard and a woman with him were trying to leave the club about 4am when they were confronted by five members of Drake's posse. 

The aftermath: Broken glass can be seen strewn across the bar following the Chris and Drake fight.

The fight allegedly kicked off as the last song was playing, just before 4 a.m. 

Police were already at the scene because it was closing time and that they 'were on it in seconds and began getting everyone out of the club.'

Pictures of the aftermath show the club floor strewn with broken glass.

Brown was pulled out of the situation by his own security and helped out of the club while Drake was pulled to the back of the club, the source said. '[Drake] was one of the last out of W.I.P.'

The New York Police department confirmed to the Global Grind that the two singers' crews got into a fight at Manhattan nightclub - 5 people were injured in the melee including Chris' bodyguard who suffered a serious cut to the head, two other men and two women suffered minor cuts. At least three were hospitalised.

Police were looking at surveillance footage and talking to patrons who witnessed the melee. No arrests have been made and no complaints filed.

Drake has today denied he was involved in 'any kind last night at W.i.P.' His spokeswoman said in a statement: 'He was on his way out of the club when the altercation began.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159544/Chris-Brown-Drake-nightclub-brawl-Innocent-girl-caught-middle.html#ixzz1xqZ32eu0

Boxing's Integrity Takes Another Black Eye After Incomprehendable Bradley-Pacquiao Split Decision

What’s that line from Forrest Gump?  Stupid is as stupid does?

For a sport that is losing ground to MMA and UFC fighting, the only way to maintain integrity and respectability is to ensure fair play and fair assessment of play.

On Saturday night in Vegas, undefeated Timothy Bradley earned a split decision victory versus the much celebrated Manny Pacquiao.  The fight scoring was 115-113 by all 3 judges, but 2 sided with Mr. Bradley while only one sided with Mr. Pacquiao.

Judging from experts and social media feedback, the official scoring was inconsistent with others’ perspectives:

- Yahoo! Sports scored the fight 117-111 for Pacquiao;

- Tim Dahlberg of the AP scored the fight 117-111 for Pacquiao;

- Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal scored the fight 117-111 for Pacquiao;

- Dan Rafael of ESPN scored the fight 118-110 for Pacquiao;

- HBO’s Harold Lederman scored the fight 119-109 for Pacquiao.

Furthermore, live streaming feeds which I followed on Yahoo Sports and ESPN during and after the fight were overwhelmingly lopsided in favor of Pacquiao.

According to CompuBox, Pacquiao landed 34% of his punches compared to 19% for Bradley.  Furthermore, Pacquiao landed 82 more power shots.

Unfortunately, it’s these sorts of results that make skeptics of us all.  Make us wonder if someone within the sport thought they could drum up greater interest in a Pacquiao-Bradley rematch if Pacquiao lost the first bout.  Seems far-fetched, but in light of the circumstances I wouldn’t blame anyone that draws this conclusion.


At the end of the day, it’s no skin off my nose if boxing doesn’t care enough about its own image to ensure that fair play and fair assessment of that play is of tantamount importance to the credibility and re-branding of the sport.

But from strictly a business perspective, especially with MMA and UFC gaining such strides in popularity, perhaps boxing needs to consider re-evaluating its judging process…be it more judges or some other solution.

Because without a re-assessment of such procedures, I fear that boxing will keep taking uppercuts to perceptions of its integrity…or lack thereof.

Failing to undergo such self-evaluation could cost the sport even more fans long term who may not want to purchase a fight on Pay-Per-View or attend in person if they think the match evaluation process is fundamentally flawed, inconsistent, and unfair.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/2012/06/10/integrity-of-boxing-takes-another-black-eye-after-incomprehendable-bradley-pacquiao-split-decision/2/

North Korea rocket has failed

(Reuters) - North Korea's much hyped long-range rocket launch on Friday ended in apparent failure, South Korean officials said, dealing a blow to the prestige of the reclusive and impoverished state that defied international pressure to push ahead with the plan.

North Korea said it wanted the Unha-3 rocket to put a weather satellite into orbit, although critics believed it was designed to enhance the capacity of North Korea to design a ballistic missile deliver a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States.

A spokesman for the Defense Ministry in Seoul told journalists that the rocket had broken up and crashed into the sea a few minutes after launch.

Officials from Japan confirmed the mission had failed, while ABC News cited U.S. officials saying it had failed, although there was no immediate indication of where it fell.

The rocket's flight was set to take it over a sea separating the Korean peninsula, with an eventual launch of a third stage of the rocket in seas near the Philippines that would have put the satellite into orbit.

This was North Korea's second consecutive failure to get a satellite into orbit, although it claimed success with a 2009 launch and there was no comment on the launch from North Korea's official media.

The Unha-3 rocket took off from a new launch site on the west coast of North Korea, near the Chinese border.

The launch had been timed to coincide with the 100th birthday celebrations of the isolated and impoverished state's founder, Kim Il-sung, and came after a food aid deal with the United States had hinted at an easing of tensions on the world's most militarized border.

(Additional reporting by TOKYO newsroom; Writing by David Chance and Jonathan Hopfner; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

The failed launch of the North Korea rocket made buzz all over the internet especially the micro blogging site Twitter. here are some of the comments.

Chris Toronyi ‏ @christoronyi

I feel kinda bad for the people who hosted those North Korea missile launch viewing parties. Bummer.

Barbara Maningat ‏ @BarbaraManingat

Still no word rationale from #North Korea "North Korea rocket breaks up after much touted launch"

Justin Stangel ‏ @Justin_Stangel

It's a good thing North Korea censors the internet or they’d realize the long range rocket test was a failure

Jason Davis ‏ @astrosaur_u

No matter the political stance on North Korea, there's something sad about hearing a rocket split into 4 pieces a minute into flight.

ExSubSpy ‏ @ExSubSp 

People will be killed for this! #NorthKorea launches a rocket, reports suggest it broke up shortly after launch.