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Wrestling legend Ric Aptitude has addressed his belligerent habits that was caught on video and obtained him kicked out of a restaurant in Gainesville.
In video that went viral on the web on Tuesday, Ric Aptitude was seen and heard moving into it with staff at Piesanos Stone Hearth Pizza in Gainesville. Aptitude was on the town to attend commencement ceremonies on the College of Florida.
He claimed on social media that he spent $1,500 within the restaurant solely to “be disrespected greater than I ever have in my whole life.”
Aptitude claimed that regardless of “taking 20 footage with clients and workers” he was requested to go away due to a problem he “had with the kitchen supervisor taking too lengthy within the toilet.”
No, none of this makes any sense. And neither did the video of the 75-year-old Ric Aptitude nearly getting right into a bodily altercation with restaurant workers.
On Wednesday, Aptitude appeared on The MJ Morning Present and addressed the incident.
“All I can let you know is that this,” Ric Aptitude started. “I had a disagreement with apparently a kitchen worker within the toilet. Which nobody was round, simply me and him and I, um, bear in mind after I nearly died in 2017?
“So I’ve clearly, my intestinal, my physique works in another way now.”
Aptitude was then requested concerning the video of the confrontation he had with what gave the impression to be the bartender that went viral.
“No, the 2 folks that have been tending bar have been very good. I gave them a $1,000 tip,” Aptitude claimed.
“It was the 2 individuals by that I had not met prior, popping out of the toilet. They only descended on me, telling me that I used to be out of line and I stated, ‘nicely how would you even know, you weren’t in there?’
“After which it simply escalated and I used to be fallacious for getting mad, however I form of felt like I used to be defending my place. I’m with my spouse and my stepdaughter who’s obtained a level in criminology and goes to work for the FBI and so they got here on so robust that she obtained scared and ran out the door.”
Ric Aptitude was then requested if he nonetheless needs individuals to keep away from the restaurant, as he strongly instructed on social media on Tuesday.
“I ordered meals to go from Paisanos at 6 o’clock and so they delivered it,” he replied, including, “They really had nice meals.”
So all’s nicely that ends nicely, it feels like.
After the incident, the supervisor of a sister Paisanos restaurant wrote on X (Twitter) that “Mr. Aptitude was being drunk and disorderly.”
Aptitude denied that he was drunk to The MJ Morning Present, saying he solely had Michelob Ultras and “most likely” two combined drinks.
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