Fights

Pat McAfee's "Big Night Aht" event turned into a fight club in one section Wednesday night in Pittsburgh ... 'cause some yinzers started going at it in the crowd -- and the whole thing was caught on video.

While it's unclear what sparked the scrap, multiple parties were involved at PPG Paints Arena. At one point in the chaos, a man in a black shirt tried to break things up before getting sucker punched by a guy in a plaid shirt.

The two went tumbling down the stairs, with the guy in the plaid shirt landing some blows as his opponent was down. The two were eventually separated as arena staff tried to get a handle on the situation.

Tyreek Hill and his estranged wife, Keeta Hill, were captured on video during their alleged domestic dispute earlier this week.

The footage, obtained by WPLG Local 10, shows the Hills on the balcony of their 35th-floor residence on Monday afternoon ... as they allegedly quarreled over a comment Keeta had made about Tyreek's parenting efforts.

In the clip, you can see Keeta look down on the street below their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. home ... before Tyreek -- with the couple's baby in his arms -- does the same.

Aaron Pico is officially a UFC fighter -- and while the featherweight star is pumped -- he says the work is only beginning!

"It's a big day for me, honestly. I'm really happy," 28-year-old Pico told TMZ Sports.

"It's something that I've been working for my whole life. I wanted to be a UFC fighter since the beginning. But I got the job, but now the work isn't done. I have the biggest test ahead of me with these UFC guys. But I'm ready to fight them all."

Two security guards have been busted and slapped with felony battery charges after a wild, caught-on-camera beatdown of a guy at an Indiana bar -- and the footage is brutal.

The distressing video allegedly shows security guards Sean Shell and Johnathon Turner going off on Shane Hendrix ... kicking, punching, and dragging him across the floor at Chaser's Bar & Grill in Evansville -- all after he was accused of a confrontation with a bartender over an unpaid tab.

According to authorities, the guards didn’t even try to escort him out first -- they went straight into full-on assault mode.

Raul Rosas Jr. has experienced a lot of success early into his UFC career ... but he's now ready for the next step -- telling TMZ Sports he wants a top-15 opponent!!

We caught up with the 20-year-old bantamweight following his unanimous decision win in Mexico City last Saturday ... a performance he graded quite highly for himself.

"Good control, good everything and especially I push myself to keep staying in the fight," he said. "I'll give it an A because I would like to finish. I'm always looking for the finish, so next time, I'll fix these mistakes to be able to go out there and get the finish next time."

2:02 PM PT -- Law enforcement sources tell us Dylan and Paul got into a fight at work, where they observed surveillance footage of Dylan slapping Paul two times.

The warrant for his arrest was then issued and police located Dylan and arrested him.

Dylan John, the reggae rapper whose ego was even too big for Diddy on the 2nd iteration of his infamous "Making The Band" series, was arrested this week for allegedly not keeping his hands to himself when cops say he smacked another man's face!!!

The Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes seemed to briefly forget they were playing a hockey game on Wednesday ... 'cause they were using their fists more than their sticks at the Lenovo Center!!

There were three fights in the third period of the contest ... with the final brawl in the trilogy -- which involved Washington center Connor McMichael and Carolina defenseman Jalen Chatfield -- taking the violence to another level.

It grew intense early as both players' helmets came off in the scrap – but Chatfield wasn't content with just throwing punches.

The NBA just handed down several punishments in relation to Sunday's Pistons vs. Timberwolves brawl ... with Detroit big man Isaiah Stewart getting the the stiffest penalty.

NBA Executive VP and head of basketball ops Joe Dumars announced the consequences of the scuffle on Tuesday ... saying Stewart is banned two games for "escalating an on-court altercation," adding his history of "unsportsmanlike acts" played a role in the length.

A handful of one-game suspensions were also shelled out for Detroit's Ron Holland and Marcus Sasser ... as well as Minnesota's Naz Reid and Donte DiVincenzo.

Prosecutors in Texas are considering criminal charges against the punk who beat the crap out of a fellow student at a junior high school ... TMZ has learned.

The attack happened Friday morning at Hardwood Junior High in Bedford, Texas and viral video shows a student repeatedly punching his peer in the head as he kneels on top of his victim ... finishing off the beatdown, as he's pulled to his feet, with a kick to the other kid's face.

Bedford Police Chief Bobby LaPenna tells TMZ ... the student who allegedly committed the assault was "detained" by police and the case will be referred to the Tarrant County Juvenile Justice Center.

The Pistons vs. Timberwolves game turned into fight night on Sunday ... with both sides getting into a massive brawl that flooded into the stands -- leading to a whopping seven ejections.

The chaos broke out in the second quarter ... when tensions were already high after Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart got T'd up for bumping Wolves guard Donte DiVincenzo.

Shortly after, Detroit's Ron Holland slapped the ball out of Minnesota forward Naz Reid's hands as he was driving the lane -- who responded by getting in his face and waving his finger.

A San Diego FC fan was blindsided by a sucker punch following his favorite team's game Saturday night -- and the big KO blow was all captured on video.

The violence unfolded just after SDFC beat LAFC, 3-2, at Snapdragon Stadium ... when supporters of both teams got into a skirmish near the venue's parking lot.

Footage from the scene shows as a man in an SDFC jacket sprung into a skirmish to escalate a verbal altercation -- another man tagged him in the side of the face with a vicious right hand.

Claressa Shields is determined to prevent other boxers from experiencing the hell she went through with her recent false-positive drug test ... telling TMZ Sports she's working with boxing commissions to improve the entire process.

The undefeated boxing champ was suspended from competing in Michigan shortly after her fight with Danielle Perkins in February for allegedly testing positive for marijuana -- something she claims she's never put in her body.

The Michigan Commission later lifted the suspension "following receipt of additional evidence that a procedural error occurred during the collection of Respondent’s oral fluid specimen."

Brandon Moreno's heading into his main event fight, not with anger or aggression ... but instead with gratitude, telling TMZ Sports he's super thankful the UFC has given him the opportunity to fight at home!

"I'm just very grateful with the company, very grateful with the UFC to keep giving me these opportunities to show my skills to my country, you know, to Mexico. So I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm just enjoying the moment," the 31-year-old former Flyweight champ told us days before the scrap against Steve Erceg.

Erceg, 29 years old, is 12-3 as a pro ... and will be across from Moreno Saturday night at Arena CDMX in Mexico City.

2:38 PM PT -- Bri Stern has just shared her full statement on Instagram ... laying it all out there and saying in part, "Those facts speak for themselves."

Andrew Tate choked his girlfriend Bri Stern with one hand and used his other mitt to beat the crap out of her face ... according to a new lawsuit.

Bri is suing Andrew for sexual assault and battery and gender violence ... and in her lawsuit, she goes into more detail on the alleged choking incident she filed a police report over.

In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Bri says they were having consensual sex in his room at the Beverly Hills Hotel when things suddenly changed and he started being verbally degrading and violent.

GloRilla reportedly ended her concert in St. Louis, Missouri early Monday night over several fights that broke out throughout the show.

Video obtained by TMZ shows one of the fights up close... you can see a woman get violently ripped away from another attendee, nearly being thrown into a shocked onlooker.

GloRilla can be heard in the background asking people to "be calm" several times.

Prison inmate Charles Miles gave notorious wife-killer Scott Peterson a beating behind bars earlier this month ... and now he's sharing his side of the story.

In an exclusive preview clip obtained by TMZ, Charles tells Court TV via phone call he went into "attack mode" after Scott rammed into him during a game of pickleball. He says Scott "aggressively" sprinted at him with his paddle in hand --allegedly to chase the ball -- and made no effort to avoid him.

This pissed Charles off, who says he "beat him down to the ground" and "beat the hell out of him." Charles says there was a bit of a struggle, but once he overpowered Scott, he climbed on him and started pounding him.