Reporter Fight Club....
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FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that two Milwaukee TV Reporters got into a fight at a Brewers game and one of the Reporters ended up being arrested.
WITI Reporter A.J. Bayatpour got into an argument with WTMJ Reporter Ben Jordan and it ended with Bayatpour (mugshot pictured) taking a trip to the crossbars hotel.
The Milwaukee Journal has some details on how this fight went down and it includes a bulldog and NFL quarterback Jay Cutler.
The Journal writes that Ben Jordan, a reporter at WTMJ, was at the Brewers vs. Cubs game Friday night with his fiancée, Madeline Anderson, a reporter with Bayatpour at WITI.
The couple noticed Bayatpour at the game and invited him to sit with them in extra seats. Around the sixth inning, Anderson showed Bayatpour a photo of a bulldog on her phone and said it represented how she felt.
He said he thought Anderson looked disinterested. Anderson perceived the comment that she appeared disinterested as somehow pertaining to her on-air appearance as a TV reporter. Jordan asked Bayatpour to step away, but he said he was still watching the game.
When the game was over, Jordan asked Bayatpour to apologize to Anderson, which he did, but again said she seemed disinterested. That led Jordan and Bayatpour to confront each other while trading insults.
Suddenly, Jordan told police, Bayatpour punched him three times in the face before people around them intervened and Bayatpour left the area.
Police found Jordan about 11:20 p.m. on the loge level near Section 225 of Miller Park, bleeding from the face. He was taken to a hospital and diagnosed with a broken nose, a chipped tooth and orbital bone fractures.
After his arrest, Bayatpour confirmed Anderson's account that she had shown a picture of a bulldog on her phone during the game, and said it represented how she felt. He said he told her the picture seemed to suggest disinterest instead of anger and teasingly told Anderson she should have shown him a picture of Jay Cutler, the former Chicago Bears quarterback.
Bayatpour said that during his insult-laden dust-up with Jordan about the apology, Jordan made a threat and Bayatpour "instinctively" stepped back and hit Jordan first.
Jordan declined to discuss the incident.
And that is the first rule of Reporter Fight Club.
