Footage from a December 2025 brawl at a Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball game in Staten Island, N.Y., was recently released. The women in the video and their families have been suspended indefinitely from attending or participating in CYO games.
In the video posted by Fox News, one woman can be seen approaching a registration table where another woman sits. The two begin a verbal altercation that escalates when one woman stands from behind the table and is pushed. Soon, dozens of people are seen on footage attempting to break the two women apart as they throw punches and pull on each other’s hair.
The women were identified as mothers of the youth athletes and several of the people who intervened to separate them were family members.
"Two families got involved and, in the end, their families have been banned from CYO indefinitely," said CYO county director Michael Neely.
"The mission was about the kids," said Vito Fossella, Staten Island Borough President. "The mission was about teaching them responsibility. The mission was about them having a good time: the kids. The kids are the center of this universe here. And every once in a while some spectators get out of control and ruin it for the kids and ruin it for everybody else."
CYO suspensions used to be handled on a case-by-case basis, but due to an increase in unsportsmanlike conduct, and in particular this recent fight, CYO announced that it would enforce a one-year ban for any spectator ejected by a referee.
