The fight between Patrick Mahomes Sr. and John Rocker is off.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy broke the news that the ex-MLB stars wouldn’t be going mano-a-mano at “Rough ‘N Rowdy” after Mahomes’ son, Patrick, and his wife, Brittany, got wind of things.
“No, this fight is canceled,” Portnoy said on the “Unnamed Show” on Friday. “Mahomes’ agent — the football player — and Brittany, from what I am told, intervened and said, ‘There’s no way this fight happens; we’re going to cut this guy off if he does it.”
3 Dave Portnoy announced the Patrick Mahomes Sr.-John Rocker fight was canceled on Friday. Barstool Sports/X
The fight, originally slated for Barstool Sports’ “Rough ‘N Rowdy” boxing show on Apr. 19, gained notoriety when Mahomes Sr., 54, and Rocker, 50, got into a tiff in New Orleans during Super Bowl 2025 week.
In court, Mahomes Sr. told officials that the scuffle was an attempt to build momentum for the bout.
Other than getting the combatants to sign on for the fight, Portnoy denied having anything to do with it.
“They came to us to do this,” he said. “How would we ever come up with this concept, ‘Oh, let’s put up John Rocker versus Pat Mahomes Sr.’? Who would ever think of that? They came to us, said they hated each other wanted to fight.”
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Breaking: The fight between John Rocker and Patrick Mahomes Sr. has been canceled
Dave Portnoy blames Patrick Mahomes for getting John Rocker fight canceled
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