29 Nov 2025 Beginner This material is for beginner players The player with the most World Series of Poker Circuit titles is in another scandal. There is a video online this week that shows Maurice Hawkins getting into a fight during what looks like a private underground poker game. Poker pro Rob Kuhn posted the video online on Thursday. It went viral very quickly and has caused a lot of discussion in the poker community. 🚨BREAKING🚨 MAURICE HAWKINS GETS BEAT UP IN POKER ROOM pic.twitter.com/txZOBlUItd — Rob Kuhn (@RobKuhn_) November 28, 2025 The video shows Hawkins and another man fighting. The other man is throwing punches at Hawkins while Hawkins tries to put him down. In the background, you can hear people yelling as the short but wild fight erupts. A few hours later, Hawkins put up his video to tell his side of the story. His video doesn’t show the fight itself. The Narratives are hilarious . A guy tried to sucker punch me and sneak attack me . While I am in my seat. Then you post I got my ass whoop. Fucking hilarious . What you think happens . If I don’t get grabbed . When I got to my feet . Here you go . The truth of what happened . pic.twitter.com/Kz5mZSRA3R — EatingOnAllStages (@mauricehawkins) November 28, 2025 What it really shows is people leaving a house through the back door and entering a backyard area with a grill. This proves that the game really did happen at someone’s residence. For all you Twitter warriors.Think about this. I knew he had a gun and didn’t give a fuck . I either don’t have a regard for my life or I may be someone not to FUCK WITH . Because I live in the REAL WORLD, with REAL LIFE PEOPLE. WHO DO REAL SHIT . Now you go back to your Tweets. — EatingOnAllStages (@mauricehawkins) November 28, 2025 Hickins wrote in his post that the other player tried to “sucker punch and sneak attack” him before the fight started, saying that he was the victim. If your ignorant ass people knew. I was trying to deescalate the situation. With a take down . Instead of literally hurting buddy with my hands . I KNEW THEN THE Headlines would read something different. Because, I remind you of what you couldn’t accomplish . CONSISTENCY — EatingOnAllStages (@mauricehawkins) November 28, 2025 What Started the Fight? No one knows exactly what started the fight, and Hawkins’ tweet didn’t provide many details. An unnamed source informed PokerNews that Hawkins had been boasting about his boxing skills. Another player at the table, Tray Rock, asserted that Maurice was not the aggressor in the attack. Rock claims that the two guys started to argue about their nationalities. Hawkins told the other guy they could “box about it," so he got up and punched him while he was still sitting. Rock alleges that Hawkins didn’t see it coming. However, Hawkins’ video portrays a different scene and does not show him being hit while he is sitting down. After PokerNews released its version of what happened, Hawkins wrote in a post on Friday evening that he would sue the media outlet. At the moment, it’s still not clear what happened because there isn’t a full video of the whole incident. Hawkins and Ongoing Controversies Despite Hawkins's lack of violence, his name has been associated with numerous controversies. This year, at the Horseshoe Tunica stop, he topped the $400 monster stack to win his nineteenth WSOP Circuit ring. Soon after, Denise Pratt, a regular on the Circuit, claimed that he wouldn’t refund her for backing him in several events. Hawkins used Pratt’s money to run deep in several events, including the one he won, but he didn’t give her a penny of the money he won. Her claims brought up a familiar issue from 2019: Hawkins lost a court case to Randy Garcia, a former backer who claimed that Hawkins didn’t pay him. After a while, Garcia wrote that he still hadn’t gotten the six-figure sum despite the court ruling. Even though these financial concerns are still going on, Hawkins continues to be successful on the felt. Since then, he’s won two more rings, giving him a total of twenty-one. This is still the most rings ever won in WSOP Circuit history. Sadly, fights between players in poker constantly happen. A player at Red Rock Casino was knocked out during a fight in May of last year. Italian poker player Michele Nizzardelli was kicked out of a European Poker Tour event in 2023 for fighting someone he had just eliminated. In 2020, an Aria dealer struck a player after yelling and throwing beer at him. Poker Community Reaction There has been a lot of talk in the poker world about this latest fight, and many people have responded to the video that was shared online. @BobbyHReports: Is the fist okay? — Bobby Harr (@BobbyHReports) November 28, 2025 @CryptoBiff1955: Is there an unhealthy amount of times watching that? — CryptoBiff (@CryptoBiff1955) November 28, 2025 @KyleK_poker: Happy Thanksgiving lol — Kyle Kitagawa 'Cali Kidddd' (@KyleK_poker) November 28, 2025 @SanFranAnt: Love it finally a white guy beating up a black guy — Kris (@SanFranAnt) November 28, 2025 @brian_raben: Everyone has been trying to figure out how do we get poker back on ESPN. This is the solution. Imagine if we had fighting like the NHL does. People would tune in to watch — Brian Raben (@brian_raben) November 28, 2025 @mrshaggy_14: You could say Maurice took “a bad beat” at the poker table today. 😂 — mrshaggy_14 (@mrshaggy_14) November 28, 2025 @Bradley88995765: Damn that does look like him. I just seen him in Hollywood. With all those burnt bridges its bound to catch up to him — Bradley Martin (@Bradley88995765) November 28, 2025
