Rich gets headlines again… but is it getting blown out of proportion?

These days it seems that feuds are more prevalent than ever. Whether it’s for added buzz or a publicity stunt, members of the fitness industry constantly seem to be bumping heads and it’s made for some pretty entertaining and cringe worthy occurrences in the past few years. Internet beefs have been springing up all over the place lately. If you thought the beef between Phil Heath and Kai Greene then you haven’t seen the bad blood between Rich Piana and Jason Genova.

Not many people may be aware of this, but apparently Genova, an avid bodybuilding fan, amateur competitor, sparked the beef with Rich when he took to his social media and stated to his followers that an “Order 66” should be issued on Piana. Suffice it to say, Piana didn’t take too kindly to the statement.

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Genova is an individual who is handicapped yet has garnered a huge social media following and is more than competent when it comes to conducting himself as a bodybuilder. Yet what happened during his recent run in with Rich Piana may have crossed the line.

When Piana and Genova came face to face at a recent meet and greet event, the two decided to settle their beef in a pretty unorthodox manner. Take a look at the video below.

Now many could look at this video as harmless, but really Piana may have grossly overstepped his bounds in this showing. To settle the feud in such a childish and violent manner particularly against an individual with a mental ailment shows just how immature Piana truly is. There were different ways for Piana to handle the situation: have a private conversation, discuss the situation with Genova like a man. Instead he chose to slap Jason a repeated number of times in the hopes that he’d show his superiority, but really it’s only helped Piana lower his own stock?

Do you think Rich Piana went too far?

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