Los Angeles Lakers legend Shaquille O’Neal does not stop at basketball it comes to following a passion for sports. The 51-year-old is a ‘multipotentialite’, keeping an interest in the latest happenings that occur around the world of different sports like the MLB, UFC and Boxing.
A prominent TikTok personality dominated the latest BKFC fight, and Shaq’s 20-year-old son followed in his father’s footsteps to cheer on.
Bryce Hall’s victory gets a shoutout from the 20-year-old son of Shaquille O’Neal
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The official Instagram handle of the Gen Z-targeted sports company, ‘Overtime’, recently uploaded a reel. It featured a clip from the highly anticipated bare knuckle fight between TikTok star Bryce Hall and Gee Perez. Having been a social media sensation for the past 9 years now, the 23-year-old made his official ‘bare knuckle boxing’ debut as part of the championship fight conducted by the BKFC.
The fight was held a few hours ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It began with Hall catching Perez in a right hand, causing him to hit the canvas. The same round resulted in Perez ending up with an elbow injury, causing him to fight with just one hand. Still, the fighter was able to get in a few shots and even get some blood on Hall’s face.
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By the time the second round ended, however, Perez’s elbow injury became too much to endure. This resulted in his corner waving off the fight. The TikTok sensation was declared the winner of the fight.
The clip uploaded by ‘Overtime’ features the very same moment when Hall was able to drop Perez into the canvas.
The exciting moment was not to be missed by Shaquille O’Neal’s 20 year old son and college basketball player Shaqir O’Neal. The young star took to Instagram to share the story with his 890000 followers.
Fans react to Bryce Hall’s victory over his opponent
Shaqir wasn’t the only one who was caught up with excitement over the memorable moment. As of this moment, the reel has received more than 111800 likes and has been viewed over 1.2 Million times. Aside from leaving likes, users also took to the comments section to state their opinions regarding the fight.
Many people came out in support of the social media personality through comments like “Yo this fight is pretty good (fire emoji) im impressed”, “bro on demon time”, “Gyaddddd damnnn” etc.
Comparing his skills to that of a street fighter, a few impressed viewers wrote “he finally used his street fight knowledge”, “He wasn’t lying about his 40-0 street fight record”, “Bro became a boxer said he wasn’t then became a street fighter lmfaoo”, “blud is using his street fight power” etc.
While Hall wasn’t short of receiving praises from his fans, many people also descended to criticize what they saw.
A few users couldn’t believe that Hall got the desired outcome on the basis of his skills. They wrote “I think bro just got lucky”, “That sh*t so scripted Lmaoo”, “That’s sh*t fake he got paid to take that dive” “this made his ego even bigger” etc.
Another person, who was not satisfied at the duration of the fight lasted, wrote “Can’t believe I waited all that time for the fight to end like that. That is so annoying”
A few of the users brought media personality and professional boxer Jake Paul into the conversation. They wrote comments like “Don’t care Jake Paul would sleep him”, “At least better than that Jake Paul fight”, “Better than jake Paul” etc.
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