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Anthony Rizzuti

Panthers great Cam Newton obliterates Olympic gold medalist in bloody reality show fight

If there’s one lesson we’ve learned about Carolina Panthers great Cam Newton over the past calendar year, it’s that he’s probably best left untested.

The latest episode of FOX’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test pitted its celebrity contestants against one another for a “controlled aggression” challenge—where the “recruits” squared off in hand-to-hand combat. Newton was matched up in a heavyweight bout with competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian.

Here was the result . . .

Newton made headlines last February when he was involved in a brawl during a 7-on-7 football event in Atlanta, Ga. His challengers in that fight experienced the same fate as Adrian did . . .

Oh, and lest we forget Newton’s famous training-camp tussle with cornerback Josh Norman in 2015 . . .

Anyway, Newton—who impressively jumped into a helicopter from a moving boat on the show’s season premiere—has successfully made it through the first four episodes of the competition.

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