Javon Walker: The "Real" Story

While investigators and Oakland team officials work to piece together who was responsible for Raider wideout Javon Walker getting the consciousness beat out of him the other night, I'm going to go ahead and share an account of what allegedly happened from a friend of a friend who knows a bartender who works with another bartender who was in Vegas with Walker the night of his assault (in other words, assign as much credibility to this unsubstantiated account as you see fit; and I'm not naming certain names because I don't have time to substantiate it myself): "My friend who bartends at this one L.A. strip join told me that Javon Walker's best friend works as a bartender there as well, and Javon normally comes in twice a week. Walker's friend asked my buddy to bartend for him Sunday night, telling him he was going to Vegas with Walker. Yesterday, my bartender friend sees the ESPN report where Walker got beaten up and figures his bartending partner was with Walker and was worried he might be laying dead somewhere. He calls into the strip joint where they work and asks the GM if his bartending partner has called in yet. He says that he did and was OK, but was with Javon in Vegas on Sunday night."

"Evidently, Walker was at a club drinking and a well-known boxer (Update: Spy On Vegas' party roundup puts Floyd Mayweather at the scene, so yeah, that's who our tipster's talking about here) was at another table. Walker ordered 5 bottles of Vodka, so the boxer orders 10 bottles of vodka trying to one-up him. Walker then orders another 5 bottles for his entourage. Evidently, both groups were pretty hammered and words were exchanged. When Walker leaves to go back to their hotel, they are followed by some chick. Walker jumps out of the cab at the traffic light and gets in with the chick following behind. That was the last they saw of Walker. Evidently, another vehicle was following behind the chick and ran the chick off the road and beat the heck out of Walker. Reports haven't been released that the boxer was involved, so we'll see what transpires. As you know, the boxer lives in Vegas and it's his town. His thugs probably beat the heck out of [Walker] and stole his watch and wallet, making it look like a robbery. They left him in some alley. They say Walker may never play again as his face sustained multiple fractures."