The Oklahoma soccer player who nearly lost an eye in a bar fight this month, according to the other side, came.
Walker Brown said he was “defending myself” when he charged the Sooners’ showman and placeholder in the bathroom of Logies on the Corner in Norman, Okla.
A 58-second video that went viral last week captured the moment Brown, a junior at the school and a fighter and a fighter for mixed martial arts, landed several blows and put Jones in a stranglehold has.
Jones, an elderly red shirt, underwent a four-hour procedure to rebuild his left orbit, according to The Athletic.
Police are investigating the incident, which apparently took place in the early morning hours of February 14.
No arrests were made.
The video begins with Jones telling Brown to ‘get the fk out of here.’
Brown was then bumped by someone standing next to Jones. Seconds later, Brown wipes blood from his face and hits Jones.
“There was something that happened before the video started because my nose was bleeding for no reason,” Brown wrote on a GoFundMe page to help pay for his medical expenses.
Brown tore his bicep according to the page that raised $ 35,745.
Woodrow Glass, a lawyer representing Jones, said his client was “trying to aggravate the situation” and that the blood on Brown’s face was not caused by Jones.
According to Glass, Jones went to the bathroom to look at his friend when he ended up in the middle of an argument.
The video also showed Brown’s brother, Braden, fighting with another man in the bathroom.
Braden Brown, who is also a student at Oklahoma, tweeted on Saturday that he and his brother have been wrestling since we were in diapers and MMA / Cage Fighting since we were 12. They unfortunately did not give us any options. We showed self-control. ”