Pat Mahomes Sr. and John Rocker in angry confrontation in New Orleans amid rumored 'Rough n' Rowdy' fight

On the backmost of rumors that they're acceptable to combat each different successful an amateur boxing match, erstwhile shot stars John Rocker and Pat Mahomes Sr person been seen confronting each different extracurricular a Bourbon Street barroom successful New Orleans.

Mahomes Sr was successful municipality to ticker his son, Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, play successful Super Bowl LIX against the Philadelphia Eagles - a crippled the Chiefs yet lost.

In a video which appears to person been taken sometime during Super Bowl week, Mahomes Sr and Rocker were seen confronting each different successful the street.

The 2 appeared to effort physically attacking each different earlier being separated by bystanders. One idiosyncratic appeared to admit Rocker.

As Mahomes Sr. got pulled away, Rocker tossed his cupful afloat of crystal astatine him earlier walking off. 

This video emerges successful the aftermath of an exclusive study from DailyMail.com that Rocker and Mahomes Sr are acceptable to combat each different astatine 1 of Barstool Sports' 'Rough N' Rowdy' promotions.

Barstool Sports laminitis Dave Portnoy appeared to corroborate that a combat betwixt the 2 erstwhile rival pitchers was successful the works.

When asked whether the rumor of the 54-year-old Mahomes Sr warring was true, Portnoy said: 'That's a factual rumor.'   

He was past quizzed connected the 50-year-old Rocker, adding: 'Yeah, truthful you're connected it with your rumors.'

He was past asked if the combat was official, revealing: 'I don't know, that's wherefore I don't privation it to get ripped up. I deliberation it is! I judge we person a signed statement for Mahomes Sr to combat John Rocker astatine Rough N Rowdy.

'I deliberation it's 100%, but I haven't seen the signed paperwork yet.'

Rocker and Mahomes Sr were members of rival teams successful the 1999 and 2000 seasons - with Rocker connected the Braves and Mahomes Sr connected the Mets. 

Mahomes Sr past played shot successful 2003 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but successful caller times has deed the headlines for each the incorrect reasons.

He was arrested for driving portion intoxicated successful 2008, 2019 and 2024, and past twelvemonth was banned from driving aft being recovered connected the roads without a valid license.

He spent 10 days successful jailhouse and is present nether 'intense supervision' successful his archetypal twelvemonth of probation.

Rocker is known for his controversies arsenic well. In a 1999 interrogation with Jeff Pearlman of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made a bid of racist and homophobic statements successful a highly-publicized and discussed interview.

Rocker, who was with the Atlanta Braves astatine the time, called Curacaoan teammate Randall Simon a 'fat monkey' and utilized radical stereotypes toward Asian women driving connected the road.

When asked by Pearlman if he'd ever play for the New York Yankees oregon the New York Mets, Rocker gave an infamous punctuation calling it 'the astir hectic, nerve-wracking city' and that he'd discontinue earlier playing there.

'Imagine having to instrumentality the 7 Train to the ballpark (Shea Stadium, erstwhile location of the Mets) looking similar you're riding done Beirut adjacent to immoderate kid with purple hair, adjacent to immoderate queer with AIDS, close adjacent to immoderate dude who conscionable got retired of jailhouse for the 4th time, close adjacent to immoderate 20-year-old ma with 4 kids. It's depressing.

Rocker added, 'The biggest happening I don't similar astir New York are the foreigners. You tin locomotion an full artifact successful Times Square and not perceive anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish radical and everything up there. How the hellhole did they get successful this country?'

MLB commissioner Bud Selig suspended Rocker without wage for the entirety of outpouring grooming - arsenic good arsenic the archetypal 28 games of the 2000 season. After an appeal, the in-season suspension was reduced to 14 games.

Rocker's comments didn't spell implicit good with Mets fans - with whom Rocker already had a contentious relationship. Elsewhere successful Pearlman's piece, the pitcher referred to Mets fans arsenic 'degenerates'.

In summation to his arguable comments - some made successful the Pearlman portion and successful aggregate instances years aboriginal - Rocker admitted to utilizing steroids during his career, saying, 'Yeah, of people I was [using steroids]. I mean who wasn't? Let's beryllium honorable here, who wasn't?' 

Mahomes Sr was spotted passim the week successful and astir New Orleans earlier the Big Game. 

He was spotted successful a casino successful the metropolis connected Thursday night, alongside his ex-wife Randi and his lad Jackson, who himself has been embroiled successful ineligible issues.

In March past year, Jackson was sentenced to six months' probation aft pleading blameworthy to artillery of a waiter astatine a Kansas edifice successful February 2023.

In the case, much superior charges of aggravated intersexual artillery were dropped aft the alleged unfortunate - the proprietor of the edifice - failed to cooperate and refused to attest successful the case.

The pistillate aboriginal reported that she had endured decease threats and had her edifice vandalized. In August 2023, she closed the restaurant.