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Ex-NBA star Patrick Beverley makes his thoughts clear on Paul Bissonnette's restaurant fight

Modified Dec 02, 2024 22:37 GMT

Former NHL player and current analyst/podcaster Paul Bissonnette was assaulted late last month in a suburban Arizona restaurant. According to reports, he was attempting to intervene after a group of unruly patrons became verbally and physically abusive toward the restaurant staff.

It drew the attention of former NBA star Patrick Beverley, who now hosts "The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone."

While discussing the incident, Beverley appeared to fully support Bissonnette and said that there are some adults who still need to experience corporal punishment.

"You're trained to fight and loose teeth. He the MF who skating without a stick. I am here for it," Beverley said. "When you're a kid, you did something wrong, you got punished for it. That stops at a certain age. That don't mean you stop doing f**ked up sh*t as a young adult. And as an adult it causes me to say, you need your a*s whooped more as an adult."

Bissonnette played in 202 career games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Arizona Coyotes during his NHL career.

Paul Bissonnette pledges to ruin the lives of the patrons who assaulted him

The incident, which saw a brief trip to the hospital for Bissonnette, resulted in him promising retribution.

In fact, video footage confirmed that the individuals in question were already up to no good at a local golf club before making their way to the restaurant where the violence took place.

"After this, these motherf*****s came over to Houston’s restaurant to do the same f**king thing," Bissonnette wrote on X. "Released with no bail the following day. Complete scum of the earth. I’m going to do everything I can to ruin these f***s. This is a disgrace."

Bissonnette explained that he later sought refuge in a local CVS store.

"I’m just glad I got in that CVS, although the lady working the CVS was like, ‘Sir, you can’t be in here.’ And I’m like, ‘Ma’am, there is a pack of hyenas out there that is ready to attack me if I leave the store,’” he said via Sportsnet on Tuesday.

Thankfully, Bissonnette escaped the incident with no serious injuries, and it sounds as though he will make the perpetrators pay to the fullest extent of the law.