Curtis Woodhouse doesn’t know who you are, but he has a very specific set of skills.
And if you’re talking trash on social media—he will find you.
After losing his light-welterweight title in a hard-fought bout last Friday night, British boxer Curtis Woodhouse logged onto Twitter and found an old nemesis—@Jimmyob88—sending messages to him and calling him a “waste” and a “complete disgrace.”
Woodhouse—a former Under 21 soccer player turned pro boxer—attempted to brush the troll bile off his shoulder, initially retweeting his detractor’s messages and tweeting back “lol.”
But when @Jimmyob88 kept at it, telling Woodhouse to retire and calling him a “joke,” that’s when Woodhouse said enough was enough.
After that, Woodhouse put the word out—tweeting he would pay anyone £1,000 who could find him the address and the picture of @Jimmyob88.
The troll continued to do troll things. Obviously, Woodhouse wasn’t serious. Plus would never be able to find him, right?
But oh my God, was Woodhouse serious.
At this point Woodhouse had the user’s real name and the name of the street he lived on, and he tweeted he planned on stopping by his “old friend”’s house for a spot o' tea.
True to his word, the 32-year-old boxer hopped in his car and freaking started driving. live-tweeting his journey to find “Jimbob” and counting down the mileage with increasing excitement.
Realizing that he actually was about to be faced with a strong man who gets paid to beat other strong men’s faces in, the keyboard Karate Kid started backpedaling, tweeting the following:
Via @Jimmyob88
"chill out pal i was only doing it so you would bite back it was only abit of harmless fun."
"i was only joking about Didnt think you would be bothered thought you would take them as a joke."
But it was too late, Woodhouse was blasting down the road with a head full of steam and presumably an unholy troll-smashing gleam in his eyes. And he was not about to turn around .
The countdown continued, Woodhouse ticking off the miles until he finally showed up on the troll’s street.
Unfortunately for Woodhouse (and fortunately for his pocket book), “Jimbob” didn’t come out to play, and the boxer returned to his home. But not without sending a powerful message about cyber bullying.
I doff my cap to you, Curtis Woodhouse. You came. You saw. And you went full Neeson (Liam) on an Internet troll.
Talk troll to me, baby: @Dr__Carson
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