CFL Brawl Fight Lions Alouettes Kemoko Turay Punch
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A walk-off win in the Canadian Football League very quickly devolved into chaos as an all-out brawl broke out between the British Columbia Lions and the Montreal Alouettes. Former second-round NFL Draft pick Kemoko Turay was the instigator.
It got ugly in a hurry!
The Alouettes took a 17-9 lead into the fourth quarter of Saturday’s CFL game against the Lions at Molson Stadium in Montreal. However, the visitors started to mount a comeback with less than five minutes remaining. Former University of Ohio quarterback Nathan Rourke dropped a deep ball for the go-ahead touchdown with four minutes and 52 seconds left on the clock.
NATHAN ROURKE LETS IT FLY FROM DEEP TO STANLEY BERRYHILL III 😱
BC TAKES THE LEAD LATE IN THE FOURTH 🦁 pic.twitter.com/V3x1nm9a8J
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) July 6, 2025
British Columbia ultimately walked it off with a 44-yard field goal.
Although Canada Day was on Tuesday, the crowd was treated to some postgame fireworks. Just not the good kind.
Turay, who was previously drafted into the NFL with the No. 52 overall by the Indianapolis Colts in 2018, tried to follow the home team into the tunnel. The Alouettes did not allow that to happen. Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund stopped the Lions defensive lineman from entering into the locker room. He lunged at Turay, who then threw a punch. An all-out melee ensued with haymakers flying on both sides.
Kemoko Turay was eventually put in a headlock and wrestled to the ground at which point his teammates rushed to his defense. They hopped over the advertisement boards as the brawl escalated further.
Here’s another look:
Here is an on-field angle:
Some close-up footage about the incident after the game. #CFL #Als pic.twitter.com/SInQdXY8Si
— Pablo Herrera-Vergara (@PabloHerreraVe3) July 6, 2025
Montreal head coach Jason Maas did not see what happened.
Apparently, someone tried to get into our locker room, and you’re just not going to get into our locker room. You’re on somebody else’s team.
I don’t know what happened. I know our team, our guys, did not feel very good about someone else trying to step into our locker room after that game, but I’ll let everything get sorted out. I’m sure they got plenty of video on it to see what did transpire. I don’t think any player around the league needs to go into an opposition locker room right after a game, let alone that kind of game.
— Jason Maas
Kemoko Turay, through a statement from the Lions, tried to put some blame back on its opponent. He was not entirely at fault because he Alouettes started it!
Turay said that he was having a conversation with Alouettes’ offensive lineman Jamar McGloster, who he knew previously, when he was approached by another individual who was trash-talking and telling him to leave the area. Things then escalated, with him claiming it was Adeyemi-Berglund who landed the first punch.
— British Columbia’s statement via 3DownNation
Adeyemi-Berglund had a very different account of what happened.
I don’t really know why (it happened). I wanted to give some passes to my family because they were here visiting and they (Turay) were already in our locker room, screaming profanity and throwing punches at coaches and players. What else can you do?
This is where we’re at, this is our locker room, and somebody is entering the locker room. It’s not gonna fly, man. It is what it is, we’ll let things go how they go, and I don’t really got to say nothing. You just got to protect the locker room. It’s our players in there, it’s our coaching staff, it’s our trainers — we don’t know what’s gonna happen.
— Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund
Regardless of how it all went down, both teams are expected to receive supplemental discipline from the CFL next week. The league will review the incident over the next few days. It will then issue punishment as it deems necessary. I would expect Adeyemi-Berglund and Turay to be suspended and/or heavily fined.
Grayson Weir BroBible editor avatar