jackassworld

Since we’ve all been in such a punchy mood the last few days, here’s a solidly thrown moment from jackass days gone by. The time was 2001. The place was some random fighting romper room in Orange County. The main event was supposed to be Ryan Dunn getting his ass-whooped UFC-style by Nigel “The UK Hammer” Hudson, but since that scenario lasted only a few seconds at best Jeff Tremaine goaded Rick Kosick into taking a free shot in the belly. Now if you look at the size ratio here, Kosick clearly occupies more square feet in the world than Nigel (although, for comparison’s sake, not so great a difference as say the Great Khali to Johnny Knoxville), but that mattered not in the world of fighting physics. Nigel didn’t exactly get the nickname of the “The UK Hammer” because he could build a nice tea table, and he laid into Kosick’s tummy with such gusto that he actually left a bruised imprint of his knuckled fist. So while Rick was belly-aching, we were all belly-laughing. Good times!

Incidentally, this all reminds me of an earlier occasion in Gainesville, Florida, when Dimitry Elyashkevich and Kosick decided to swap belly blows after a few rounds of tequila shots on the final night of a Big Brother magazine road trip circa 1999. Granted, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum’s ability to aim a focused punch was a good deal less than that of Nigel’s, but they attempted to do so so many times that when they finally came to in the morning neither could recall why their stomachs were aching and so badly bruised. Good times!

(photo by Sean Cliver; Huntington Beach, CA; 2001)