- Willie Mason has expressed his opinion on the Paul Kent incident
- Kent, 54, was involved in a street fight on Saturday.
- Mason criticized the expert for acting like an 18-year-old.
Willie Mason has slammed Paul Kent for “acting like he’s 18” after giving his reaction to the “hilarious” footage that went viral over the weekend.
The Fox Sports commentator was suspended from his role on NRL360 on Sunday after footage showed Kent, 54, allegedly fighting with a younger man outside Rozelle’s upscale venue Totti’s in Sydney’s inner west , Saturday night.
Kent, who had previously been removed from the station for nine months after being accused of assaulting and choking his ex-girlfriend, had not been reinstated as the show’s co-host until February, after being acquitted in court.
On Sunday, a 35-year-old man was charged as police investigations into the incident continue.
Mason has added his name to several prominent football figures to comment on the episode, which he described as “hilarious.”
Willie Mason says Paul Kent video was ‘hilarious’
Kent, 54, was involved in a street fight in Sydney on Saturday night.
“Imagine waking up to that shit and just being like, ‘What the fuck just happened?'” he said on his podcast, Levels.
‘You think you’re coming out of a nightmare. You would be watching your phone explode.
‘This is screwed. You expect that shit from fucking an 18 year old at a festival. He is not a 50-year-old man who is a frequent figure on television.
‘That’s fucked up. It’s hilarious, I thought it was hilarious. She tried to do a cartwheel off a damn tree stump. They hit him on the hip.
‘Can you believe that happened? This guy is 50 years old. He at least he wins the damn fight.”
Following the alleged incident on Saturday night, Kent was visited by his friend John Elias and four others at his Lilyfield home in Sydney’s inner west on Sunday morning. – moments after news broke that the journalist had been suspended.
Elías, 60, is a former professional rugby league footballer and coach who played for clubs in Sydney, Brisbane, England and France, during the 1980s and 1990s.
Rugby great Mason criticized Kent, 54, for ‘acting like he’s 18’
Throughout his career he played for many teams including the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Balmain Tigers.
However, he began to live a double life by turning to crime off the field, which led to him being imprisoned several times, including for firearms and drug crimes.
He was jailed in 1995 for nine months after pleading guilty in the New South Wales District Court to two counts of supplying amphetamines and spent four years in prison after a jury found him guilty in 2004 of shooting a man in Leg.
Elias also received a suspended sentence in 2014 after being found guilty of threatening a candy seller by calling him to warn him that “there will be consequences” if Cadbury Schweppes did not make a “good deal” with its associates.
