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Charles Curtis

Shaq beat up a helpless Charles Barkley in a wrestling ring

There is a long, long, loooooong history of Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley going at each other, many times verbally, but also physically.

And it continued again on this week’s Inside the NBA … and guess who ended up pinned to the ground?

With Chris Jericho in the studio to promote AEW on TNT, O’Neal went right at the fellow Hall of Famer, who immediately started screaming, “Shaq, I’m hurt! I’m hurt!” before he was pinned and counted out by Kenny Smith. And with everyone in stitches (not literally, thank goodness), O’Neal kept showing off his in-the-ring prowess.

Here’s the clip:

And now, some other clips of Barkley-O’Neal bouts:

Don’t forget that they got into it while in the league back in 1999:

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