Street fight between security and patrons outside Cali Beach Club in Surfers Paradise

A visitor involved in an ugly street fight with a popular Gold Coast nightspot’s bouncers is facing a lengthy party precinct ban and a court date. See video, read latest.

An ugly street fight between patrons and security outside a popular Gold Coast nightspot left one man unconscious, with a visiting family calling it “horrific” to see.

Security guards at the rooftop Cali Beach Club ended up in an altercation outside on Surfers Paradise Boulevard near the Elkhorn Avenue corner with two patrons. It left one patron’s face covered in blood and the other knocked out cold.

In scenes called “horrific” by a witness, they described security staff and the two patrons fighting on the street in visitor magnet Surfers Paradise. The security team eventually restrained the two men - with one unconscious. Security were holding them on the ground in a footpath plantation garden.

Half a dozen police and ambulance paramedics arrived soon after.

Emergency services including half a dozen police and ambulance paramedics at the scene of a fight between Cali Beach Club security and two patrons about 10.30pm on Friday night.

Police restrained the man whose face was covered in blood on arrival, as he shouted in distress “I was just trying to save my mate”.

“I’m a f--king law abiding citizen. I pay my taxes. I pay your f--king wages. Oi Oi - my friend is f--king suffering right now,” he continued.

“I haven’t done s---. I’ve done nothing wrong.”

His “mate” lay unconscious beside him under a curbside palm tree.

Cali Beach Club manager Nathan Claridge said he understood it started when the two patrons had had some sort of altercation with an unknown 18-year-old male inside the Cali lift. His security then went outside the venue to restrain them before police arrived.

“We called our guards at the front door and they have come around and these two guys are hoo-haahing and being macho men - and our guys said ‘Listen you are staying here because this (young) guy is pressing charges,” he claims.

“And they were pretty much like ‘Go f--- yourselves, we’re not having a bar of that, we’re going’. And then they started kicking off and our guards went ‘We’ll have to put you down’ and when they tried putting them down they’ve grabbed one of the guards, ripped his shirt, socked him and then - well - my guards had to use force a little bit,” he claimed.

Police and paramedics attend two patrons involved in a fight with Cali Beach Club security outside the venue on Surfers Paradise Boulevard near the corner with Elkhorn Avenue just after 10.30pm.

Police put the man whose face was covered in blood in the back of the police wagon and paramedics stretchered the unconscious man into an ambulance.

Bystanders including a visiting couple with young children - who had been walking back to their accommodation after dinner - said it was extremely violent and they tried to implore all sides to stop.

“I don’t know what happened inside,” one witness said, but added the security team “absolutely cleaned them up”.

“(The guy in the police wagon) was just trying to protect his mate - that’s why he was blowing up.”

Two patrons involved in a fight with Cali Beach Club security outside the venue - in the aftermath one man was restrained by police and the other was knocked unconscious. It occurred on Surfers Paradise Boulevard just after 10.30pm

Another witness said: “I told them I’ve got my kids here, what are you doing?’ That was horrific. Thank god we don’t live here.”

The Queensland Police Service said they were called to a “street disturbance” at 10.35pm “where a group of men were allegedly fighting”.

On arrival, police found a 29-year-old man lying in the street unconscious, QPS said in a statement on Saturday morning to the Bulletin.

He was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital for treatment and was described as “stable” at the time.

A man is stretchered into an ambulance in the aftermath of a brawl involving two patrons and Cali Beach Club security outside the venue on Surfers Paradise Boulevard. The man was transported to Gold Coast University Hospital and is said to be in a stable condition.

“Early investigations indicate that two men were evicted from a nearby licenced premises due to behaviour and an altercation has occurred with security of that premises,” QPS said.

A 32-year-old man from Camp Hill has been charged with commit public nuisance at a licensed premises or in the vicinity of licensed premises. He is due to face Southport Court on October 21. He has also been banned from the Safe Night Precincts which includes Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.

Police investigations are continuing into the incident, the statement added.