Indie wrestler Matt Cage had no time for a fan’s bigotry during a recent match and made sure everyone knew the type of fan he was dealing with.
During his match, Cage, a black man, heard a fan call him the N-word, and afterwards, got out of the ring and spoke directly to the fan. He said,
“If there’s one thing that I can’t stand, it’s some bigotry. If there’s one thing that I can’t stand in the year of our Lord 2026, it’s somebody that has the gall to open up their toothless stank-ass halitosis breath to say anything to me with some bigotry.
“That brings my attention to this woman over here and it’s so interesting that you have a cane, which means that you probably have trouble walking. But let me walk you through this real quick, sweetheart… I’m about to make y’all uncomfortable; she just made me uncomfortable. She fixed her lips to call me a N*****.
“I’m proud of who the f*** I am! Can you say the same? Well, why don’t you stand up without that cane and say it to my face again? Call me a N***** again. Because I guarantee you this: If you do, it’ll be the last time that you ever fix your lips to say those words to anyone of any race in this building.”
The fan, who had been happy to make racist remarks earlier, did not seem as confident in their racist views when the attention was on her.
When Cage gave her the chance to apologize, the fan took it, though did not say anything more than “I apologize.”
The fans who sat with the racist woman did not seem comfortable when the spotlight was on her either, and spent much of the incident looking at their shoes.
