Some at the venue stated it was instigated by Shane. Then you have others saying it was instigated by Robb. A few players who saw the beating say that Shane's beating did not warrant whatever Robb did. Of course, we get into the three sides of the story. Majority of us on this thread weren't there and were not eyewitnesses to the incident.
I went to a Carolinas Open at a closed bar, Fast Eddie's in Goldsboro, NC. There were two kids from Florida there who were drunk as skunks. They were flashing a lot of cash and wanting to gamble. They were young, loud, and probably weighed about 110 pounds wet.
They went up to Gene Hooker, one of the owners of Fast Eddie's, and started barking at him. Whatever they said--I didn't hear it--four HUGE men weighing probably 250 to 300 pounds carried these two Florida kids outside and beat the crap out of them, stomping them, hitting them in their face, kicking them in their back. It seemed as if it was 15 minutes of beating. It was horrible to see. Four great big guys beating these two drunk kids up. I'm sure they suffered lifetime injuries from this beating.
My point in sharing the story is that nobody deserves to have physical harm come to them in this manner. When a guy is down, you don't continue to pound their face in over and over and over again until you crack their eye socket and scratch their cornea. I don't give a damn what happened before that time. It's wrong.
The owner of the venue may want to take measures to prevent this from happening again. Places get shut down because of things like this. They can lose their liquor license, et cetera.
