Great Willie Mason laughs at ‘hilarious’ Paul Kent video as former NRL star slams 54-year-old journalist for ‘acting like he’s 18’

Willie Mason has slammed Paul Kent for ‘acting like he’s 18’ after reacting to ‘hilarious’ footage which went viral over the weekend.

The Fox Sports commentator was suspended from his role on NRL360 on Sunday after footage showed Kent, 54, fighting with a younger man outside Rozelle’s upmarket venue Totti’s in Sydney’s inner west , Saturday night.

Kent, who was previously fired from the network for nine months after being accused of assaulting and strangling his ex-girlfriend, was only reinstated as the show’s co-host in February after being acquitted by the court.

A 35-year-old man was charged on Sunday as police investigations into the incident continue.

Mason added his name to a number of football personalities to weigh in on the episode, which he described as “hilarious”.

Willie Mason says Paul Kent video was ‘hilarious’

Kent, 54, was involved in a street brawl in Sydney on Saturday night.

“Imagine waking up to this shit and just wondering ‘what the hell just happened?’ ” he said on his podcast, Levels.

“You think you just came out of a nightmare. You would see your phone explode.

‘That’s fucked up. You expect this shit from a fucking 18 year old at a festival. This is not a 50-year-old man who is an omnipresent figure on television.

“That’s fucked up. It’s hilarious, I thought it was hilarious. He tried to do a cartwheel on a fucking tree stump. He was hit from the hip.

“Can you believe this happened?” This guy is 50 years old. At least win this damn fight.

Following the alleged incident on Saturday evening, Kent was visited by his friend John Elias and four others at his home in Lilyfield, in Sydney’s west, on Sunday morning. – just moments after the announcement of the journalist’s suspension.

Elias, 60, is a former professional footballer and rugby league coach who played for clubs in Sydney, Brisbane, England and France in the 1980s and 1990s.

Rugby great Mason slammed Kent, 54, for ‘acting like he’s 18’

During his career he played for numerous teams including the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Balmain Tigers.

However, he began living a double life as he turned to crime off the field, leading to him being imprisoned several times, including for firearms and drugs offences.

He was jailed for nine months in 1995 after pleading guilty in the NSW District Court to two counts of supplying amphetamines and spent four years in prison after a jury found him convicted in 2004 of shooting a man in the leg.

Elias was also given a suspended sentence in 2014 after being found guilty of threatening a confectionery seller by phoning him to warn “there would be consequences” if Cadbury Schweppes did not make a ” good deal” to his associates.