Friday Fights: Padel Might Need Some Enforcers After This Fight Featured Multiple Paddle Bashes To The Skull
Editor's Note: We had two blogs about the same fight video get submitted overnight. So I figured the only way to decide which is best is with a good old fashioned blog off. Enjoy.
Pickleball is currently the fastest growing sport in America. But in Europe, they have padel. If you're interested in the game, I wrote about it here.
It's like if you combined tennis, racquetball, and pickleball. You use a paddle, similar to pickleball. The ball is a slightly deflated tennis ball. There's not a "kitchen" like there is in pickleball, so it's more traditional tennis that way. But you're also enclosed in glass walls, and can play the ball off a wall bounce like racquetball. The sport is fast, it's exhilarating, and clearly it gets the juices going.
From the looks of it, I'd have to imagine that buddy in the light green shirt ended up losing that match. You're never that fired up after a win. But maybe if he swung his paddle like he was during that scrap, he would have gotten out of there with the W. I mean that first overhead smash was a kill shot. The fact that ol' boy in blue just ate it and immediately went into attack mode shows how much heart amateur padel players have. Sure, he was probably immediately concussed which hindered his ability to land that tomahawk punch. But that's where our guy in green showed his true colors, and how much of a pussy he truly is.
You bash a dude in the skull with your paddle once? I mean...fine. It is what it is. But once that dude comes at you with fists flying, you have to drop the paddle and give him an actual fight. You swing the paddle again and clearly you never wanted the smoke in the first place. The first skull smash was a greasy move for sure, but swinging on him with the paddle after that is as gutless as it comes. A pickleball player would never stoop that low. He'd just kick the dude in the face.
I do have to say that I think we're just witnessing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to padel and pickleball fights. The thing that is so great about these sports is that they're perfect for any semi-athletic adult to play. These are all people who probably haven't had those competitive juices flowing like this in years. All that competitive rage has been bottled up inside them for a while now, and they finally have an outlet to let it out. That's naturally going to cause some wires to cross. Couple that with the fact that you're holding a weapon in your hands, and all I'm saying is that we're probably going to see more of these fights before we see fewer.