While football fans at the New Orleans bar Saints and Sinners were watching the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers at Sunday’s Super Bowl game, what appeared to be a wild brawl between bar-owner movie star Channing Tatum and UFC middleweight Cung Le broke out.
Maybe Le, a San Jose, Calif. resident, didn’t appreciate his Bay Area Niners taking a whippin. Maybe Tatum, a muscular well-built fellow who has starred in such movies as “Magic Mike” and “Fighting”, was moonlighting in his own bar as a bouncer to cut back on expenses.
According to a New York Post report, about 50 people including “Twilight Saga” star Ashley Greene and MTV star Audrina Patridge, were in a VIP area when the “wrestling match” broke out and onlookers became concerned. One person said they were “putting each other in headlocks and chokeholds”, while another described seeing “scary jiu-jitsu moves”.
Some brave party-goers even moved in to try and separate the scuffle. However, once Tatum and Le were finished with their public grappling session they started laughing and gave each other a “big bear hug”. It was then onlookers realized the two were friends and were just horsing around.
Channing and Le appeared together in the mixed martial arts-themed movie “Fighting” back in 2009 and have been friends ever since. Cung Le made a post on Twitter about his eventful Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans:
https://twitter.com/CungLe185/status/298308909473607680