A father was arrested and charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after he stormed onto the mats at a high school wrestling meet and tackled a student who had been wrestling his son (per FOX 8). The incident went down in Kannapolis, NC last weekend.
Video footage from the wrestling match shows what happened. It starts with a wrestler from Southeast Guilford High School performing an illegal move, a slam, on a wrestler from Hickory Ridge High School. After the wrestler from SGHS stood up he was blindsided by Barry Lee Jones, the HRHS wrestler’s father, by what looked like a football tackle.