Update: So, remember when the Biebs got into a fight in Cleveland during last year’s NBA Finals? If you don’t, video of the tussle is below.
The party not named Justin Bieber has apparently filed a police report naming Bieber and his bodyguard as the assailants, claiming “he went to the hospital with various injuries, including a concussion,” according to TMZ.
Why the delay? SOURCES tell TMZ that the dude wanted to take care of everything outside of court but couldn’t get anything done with the pop star.
This is a developing story. No charges have been filed.
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(Original story 6/9/16): Bieber was in town yesterday to enjoy the Cavs’ beatdown of the Warriors. What he didn’t plan for was being on the receiving end of a beatdown himself. (See what we did there? Some pro local TV news turn of phrasing.)
Anyway, TMZ has a brief Snapchat video of the fight between Bieber and a guy much larger than Bieber exchanging blows outside his hotel.
The best part: The guy recording the scuffle who says, “Shit, I’m gonna get on TMZ.”
Congrats, sir. You did.
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2016.

Welcome to Cleveland homey.
Cleveland is soft. Cali made cleveland.
I want to shake that guys hand who hit biebers punk ass. And cutwest, that shit makes no sense. How the hell did cali make cleveland? Ignorant ass haters
Cutwest I’d like to know on what level cali made Cleveland. Because historically speaking Cleveland was a city more than 30 years before cali was a state…. if we are talking about some other kind of “made” please pay attention to the language we’ve all agreed upon and explain in better terms… oh and we have the best heavy weight martial artist in the world… 🙂
Jealous much, Cleveland? Hope that jerk got his ass whooped by Justin.
He got his ass whoop for talking shit all this celebrity want to come to town nd talk down on cleveland like we some punk bitches bitch go back to canada
Actually, many 49ers were probably from Ohio, or at least passed through it on the way from the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic states…so it would be more accurate to say Cleveland made Cali.
Jealous of what? Justin Bieber? Absolutely not; we love our thriving LGBT community and welcome any additions (as long as they behave themselves). Oakland? Nah. San Francisco? Doubt it. San Diego… Sacramento? They’re okay. LA? Sheeeit! LA isn’t even a city; it’s a collective of low-grade-plastic sluts that banded together to out-slut all the other all other females. It’s like this: Cleveland is America’s little brother. You enjoy picking on us, but deep down inside you love us, and you hope we win 😉
Cleveland is huge on love for there sport teams… respect is earned not giving. Born n raised Collinwood st.clair
Hope that dude who thought he could throw a punch at Bieber watches his back…payback is a mother
What is wrong with you people.
He was in town SUPPORTING the Cavs.
He was surrounded by Warriors fans, taunting him. He took on a dude 3 times his size.
I’m no Bieber fan but his balls are twenty times larger than yours and if your hate of Bieber is greater than your love of the Cavs then just go away.
Cleveland steel built cali. Do your fn homework. If you from cleveland, new york, or chicago, than you see how the grand architects built oakland to represent the great lakes of industry.
Well everybody who had any part in building either cleveland or california are DEAD and have been for a long long time so I think everybody can STFU about left coast vs. middle coast bullshit and just rejoice in beiber getting his ass handed to him.
@ Lee Hawkins : This may get long so I apologize in advance. I am living in LA right now and it SUCKS. Single most terrible sack of feces suburb posing as a city anywhere on the planet. There is a song by the decemberists called “Los Angeles I’m Yours” that does a perfect job of describing the LA experience and sums up the city’s character even more beautifully: “an ocean’s gargled vomit on the shore”. I’ve lived in cities with open sewers which felt cleaner than this slimehole. Yeah the beaches are nice but the rest of this place should be made into an open-air nuclear testing site WITHOUT notifying the residents. Yeah it’s that bad.
San Francisco which was my home base for the decade preceding 2014 on the other hand is perhaps the single most plesant city on the planet other than maybe amsterdam. Amsterdam wins in history and culture but SF wins in lack of vomiting british tourists, less whores, less marijuana (though not by much) and friendlier people. There are few other places with any appreciable population density where I find it hard not to end up in a philosophical conversation with someone I’ve never seen before randomly while waiting at a crosswalk for the light to change or at a bus stop. Even the crackheads in the Tenderloin are surprisingly nice, for the most part. It is also one of few cities I’ve experienced with little or no recognizable “locals” bias, transplants are more than just accepted they are appreciated, for their often unique perspectives it seems. And the LGBT community in SF is beyond just accepted, there it’s not even relly a “thing” – they are an integral part of the community and thoroughly appreciated for their contributions while being thought of much like any other self-identifying group and treated just like anybody else. Hell everybody and their grandmother shows up for the pride parade for example, non-LGBT supporters/participants probably outnumber LGBT participants despite LGBT ppl flying in from all over the world for it. This Includes many straight people one would not expect, the types one would probably see protesting similar events or yelling derogatory BS from pickup truck windows while passing by two men holding hands in most other cities. The city government also contributes wholeheartedly to the cause, the square in front of city hall becomes a party the whole weekend. There are plenty of other LGBT events and they probably have an easier time getting permitted than a church group renting a picknick shelter in the midwest, because everybody seems to like them and they behave themselves. Just an example I thought would illustrate the degree of acceptance, and is all the way it is despite the fact that there is actually a higher per capita LGBT population in several other US cities which I don’t see at all the same sort of integration, Chicago topping the list last I checked as the US’s gayest city has a much lower degree of acceptance IME.
The attitude of inclusion and equality is pervasive: I even witnessed a (very, very straight) police sergent in charge ofhe city’s security during the folsom street fair accept a request to get his picture taken posed bent over the knee of a 6’5″ black transvestite in a leather halter top, hooker boots and a leather “pouch” while a “cowboy” wearing nothing but a stetson, snake boots and assless chaps posed like he was whipping the sergent’s ass with his bullwhip. In the middle of a public street, in broad daylight. Good stuff.
I’ve never been to ohio though, let alone cleveland, so I can’t really compare. Somehow I’ve managed to hit all but 3 states in India, one province in China (including the autonomous regions), hit every county in Ireland (both NI and the Republic) and all Scotland plus around 2/3 of England’s “shires”. Every province in France, Spain, Nepal, Morocco, Somalia, every country in SE asia and so on. Yet the only US state other than Hawaii and Maine I haven’t spent at least a month or more in would be Ohio. No idea why.
Anyway I hope I convinced you to stop hating on SF just because it is in the same state as LA. It’s not really, SFO is in Upper California, LA is Lower CA’s buttcrack: they are truly different states and the north should secede. Peace.
Bieber was prowling the streets in search of Johnny Football.
I hope this little no-talent asshole got a clocking that he won’t soon forget. Doesn’t he have any beefy thugs to do his fighting for him after he gets in someone’s face? That’s the celebrity way. WTF is wrong with this POS? Has he learned nothing from being famous? Christ!
Chuckles the Clown
So now it’s nine months later and the little bastard is too cool for school and too busy to settle out of court and pony up? Fine. I hope he’s found guilty and fined and once again made to look like the punk he really is. Jail time would be nice, too. He might learn a few life lessons, the hard way (sick pun intended).
To be quite frank (sorry Mister S), I have never understood exactly what is being “celebrated” about this pissant “celebrity.” If the world is lucky, maybe some unknown nobody will one day get sore enough to pound him into the pavement and rearrange Bieb’s facial features–and then even his mother won’t want to look at him, let alone see him perform whatever it is he does onstage. And neither will anybody else.
One can only hope!
Chuckles the Clown