Old School beatdown

When the SIA license came in and the more anti social people out there realised that they could "bait" door staff, and then have their licence revoked and cost them their jobs.  I personally noticed an increase of people, generally young males, who attempted to do just that because after all, they know their rights, do they hell.

Quite why you'd want to tempt a doorman into hitting you I'm not sure, mainly given the fact that HE'S GOING TO HIT YOU!   

So I've come to the conclusion they're either manipulative sadists or just plain stupid, either way no great loss to society in my opinion and seeing as how these days more of them end up getting locked up themselves maybe soon they'll realise it doesn't work. Usually.

What happened In Carringtons nightclub years ago was along these lines, there was an Mexican/American in, he was a 6ft shaven-headed muscular twat, and spent most of the evening telling everyone how he was an unarmed combat instructor on a local American Military base.  Drawing close to the end of the night he became increasingly boisterous and started offering doormen outside for a spar, then grew even more agitated when we all refused.  

He then tried to get us to go outside and fight him for real, claiming he could beat any of us up.   Knowing trouble was imminent several of us began to position ourselves around him, close enough to move quickly if necessary but not close enough for him to feel threatened.  The head doorman was talking to him trying to calm him down but I think we all knew it was just a matter of time before it exploded.  But it didn't. 

If I was the head doorman I'd probably have tried to talk and then made sure my guys were in position and basically said yes to the guy, he should walk to the door with me and when there we form a wall and call the police if we had to.  This has happened to me and it does work but can be tricky to manage but at least any violence is now outside and not in the venue.   

In this case though before it got to that stage the head doorman was interrupted by an old school retired doorman who'll i'll call Smokey to protect his identity as he said yeah I'll fight you to the American and proceeded to kick ten shades of shit out of him outside the club.  20 years of street fighting and bar brawling seems to win out which we all found amusing, even more so when the American stumbled off shouted how he was gonna come back and bust a cap in our asses!  Yes he really did say that, but of course, didn't.