This is probably not a scenario you had on your bingo card.
Video has emerged of Michael Jordan appearing to de-escalate a fight between influencers Wack 100 and Charleston White at the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio in 2015.
In the video clip, you can see Jordan walking through the crowd and stepping between the apparent confrontation.
Jordan stops briefly and appears to tell Wack 100, a major hip-hop manager whose real name is Cash Jones, something to the equivalent of to calm down, while extending his arm to hold Wack 100 back.
At this time, Wack 100 tells someone who appears to be a security guard for the NBA legend, “Don’t push me, get the f–k off me!”
The whole scene lasts under 15 seconds as Jordan’s wife, Yvette Prieto, pulls him away from the confrontation and towards their car.
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Wack 100 has discussed the kerfuffle a couple of times, saying the incident occurred as everyone with floor seats for the fight was leaving MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
“I hear some scuffling and some s–t going on, and I look back and it’s White Boy [Charleston White, a former gang leader who became an activist] coming through that motherf–ker,” the hip-hop manager explained.
“He’s Deebo-ing. [Throwing] elbows,” he continued, referencing the bully character from the movie “Friday”.
“He’s moving the crowd. That n—a got about 5-6 steps from me, and I turnt on him, and squared up on him. He ain’t finna ‘Deebo’ me. You gonna wait.”
At this point, Jordan arrived on the scene.
“Out of nowhere, Michael Jordan appears, and his security. He sees what’s going on because the White Boy froze up. I told the White Boy, ‘Reach for your gun I’m gonna take it and beat you with it. Your option.’
“Mike come up there, [and says], ‘Brother, brother, we’re just trying to [get to our car].’ N—a, I don’t care what you’re trying to do. Either you’re going to walk behind me, or you’re gonna go around me, but you ain’t going through me n—a. Something going to bed. That n—a said, ‘You’re right, we’re going this way.'”
Jordan, 60, is widely regarded as the best NBA player of all-time, and recently sold the Hornets at a valuation of about $3 billion to a group led by financiers Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall.
