Witness explains what caused the fight in the crowd at Maple Leafs games

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Josh tupper
April 16, 2022 (6:23 PM)

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On Thursday night a video began to circulate of a fight that broke out in the crowd at Scotiabank Arena. The claims made in the video implied the attacker was simply defending his girlfriend who'd been assaulted by the victim. The video shows a young man pushing an older male, before taking him down and landing some big punches before security broke up the fight.

Well it now appears we have some witness testimony as to what caused the entire fight. According to the Reddit user they witnessed the following:

I was a couple rows away and watched this whole thing happen. The guy in the Tavares jersey and his girlfriend (in the black and yellow jersey) were trying to leave the row and the big guy wasn't moving. The girl started yelling at him to move but he didn't move for 1-2 minutes. When he did move, the girl walked past as she yelled in his face and gave him the middle finger very close to his face. Then the girl slapped (pretty lightly) the big guy in the face. The big guy immediately hit the girl in the face with his whole arm and then he tackled them both to the ground. People intervened and pulled him off of them he fell backwards before the girls boyfriend (Tavares jersey) jumped on him and started feeding him punches.

As it sounds there is a lot of fault to go around in this incident. After security intervention there will likely be charges involved for at least one party.