Dave Portnoy may have gotten the last laugh in his growing beef with Patrick Mahomes.
Just a week after posting about Chiefs star’s dislike for his media company, Barstool Sports, Portnoy said he has put together a fight involving his QB’s father, Patrick Mahomes Sr.
The ex-Mets, who has loads of off-the-field issues, is slated to fight ex-Braves pitcher John Rocker in some sort of boxing match at Barstool’s next “Rough N’ Rowdy” event on April 19.
Rocker, 50, and Mahomes Sr., 54, had a near-physical confrontation on Bourbon Street in New Orleans while in town for the Super Bowl 2025. There was some suspicion the encounter occurred as a vehicle for the then-rumored Barstool bout.
It appears in a video circulating on social media that Rocker saw Mahomes Sr. and tried to shake his hand before Mahomes Sr. ripped his hand away and the two had to be separated.
“This f–king loser can’t take a damn joke,” Rocker posted on X after the scuffle. “Wish I laid him out right there and ruined his bulls–t weekend even more.”
Well, now he gets his chance, according to Portnoy.
“Breaking news, I’m not sure if you saw this little beef on Bourbon Street this past weekend, John Rocker and Pat Mahomes Sr. going at it. I guess they hated each other since their playing days, baseball. I guess not surprising everyone has beef with John Rocker. But they signed the f–king paperwork. Guess what we got boys and girls: Rough N’ Rowdy, April 19th, Wheeling, West Virginia. Bad Friday,” Portnoy said on X.
“I know Patty Mahomes the Super Bowl guy, the guy who just got his doors blown off said he hated Barstool. Well, now your dad’s fighting in our company against John Rocker. I’ll save a seat, free of charge. Patty Mahomes and crew, no bad blood we can make up and watch your dad fight. That’s an open invite. You said you don’t like us, I get your dad to fight Rough N’ Rowdy.”
Portnoy made it clear the bout was possibly happening in an interview published a few days ago with street journalist Adam Glyn, but he hadn’t seen the signed paper work at that point.
The QB Mahomes previously told Taylor Lewan and Will Compton of “Bussin With the Boys” that he was more inclined to do their podcast after they told him they left Barstool.
“I don’t know if you’ve seen the news, but ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ is leaving Barstool Sports,” Lewan said to the Chiefs quarterback during Super Bowl Opening Night. “Is it safe to say they could see you as a guest in this upcoming offseason?”
“It definitely improved y’all’s chances for sure,” Mahomes replied. “We’ll have to make that happen now.”
It appears Portnoy took that personally and is ready to attempt to publicly embarrass the star quarterback further after he lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles.
Mahomes Sr. has had multiple DUI’s and even served jail time last October after he was arrested during Super Bowl week 2024.
Rocker will have an obscene size advantage if this fight takes place, as he stands a solid 6-foot-4 while Mahomes is a slender 6-foot-1.
Rocker and Mahomes were on opposite sides of the heated Mets-Braves rivalry during the 1999 and 2000 seasons, which saw Atlanta defeat the Amazin’s in the 1999 NLCS.
Mahomes and the Mets reach the World Series in 2000.
Rocker became infamous in New York after his offensive rant in a 1999 Sports Illustrated article where he said he disliked going to the city because it featured a large immigrant population and minorities, among other things.
This story originally appeared on NY Post
