Whole thread here... urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi?board=streetart&action=display&thread=86681&page=5

Don't believe everything you read in the papers, even though the news of the world is no more the inaccurate reporting of news and significant amounts of added bs continues

Didnt necessarily believe it, but they did leave you wondering. Was it a fall, was it a kicking etc. They certainly failed to mention he fell down the stairs outside his house.

At least 5 of my friends who don't really follow the scene but caught the show, have all asked me if I knew what happened, because they got the impression he was attacked, possibly by friends of Banksy over the "paint war".

And must admit I thought the way the show ended was aimed to be controversial and leave that thought as a possibility.

Same here, and the fact that he got this together a day or two before the auction seems slightly insensitive, a legal challenge or not im sure a few days wouldnt of made much difference.

That show was interesting and I am unsure it was really a hatred war, as there was some sort of mutual respect and fun / humor during the feud war... If I'm not mistaken, no Banksy piece was really defaced. Some Robbo team comments were tagged next to the piece, not directly on it and if so, not really definitely defacing the piece. It would have been easy to destroy completely some pieces. For example, the Hastings beach piece was tagged on perspex. It could have been destroyed by pouring paint behind the perspex...
The TV show was uncomfortable to watch because it was obviously pro-Robbo and the end left a sour taste. One would expect a documentary to listen to both sides partisans. Robbo seemed more than happy to be exhibited at Pure Evil and having that moment of glory as a cinema "star". I really had the feeling too that the doc left wondering if Robbo was agressed by Banksy-ers. And the doc had several mistakes or inconsistancies : it is not obvious that the 1985 Robbo piece was really in a poor shape before Banksy painted over it.
To this day, it is not clear what really happened to Robbo and I think this should be cleared or it will soon become an "urban legend". I read up there he fell in his stairs ?

Not sure where you have been, but nearly every Banksy piece painted in the last 18 months was trashed by 'Team Robbo'. Id guess most of that is documented on here. Most of that wasn't wit either... they were simply trashed within days of going up

yes

I'm not aware of any other Robbo pieces that were altered (or even still existed) other than the canal pieces which were changed several times by both artists.......

I'm not sure that spraying over robbo's piece salvaged it but it certainly gave it more limelight and fame that it would ever have had (or has had) in it's 20 year history. That is without doubt. I'd never even heard of Robbo until the feud (which was my bad I guess) but Banksy's alteration of his piece made it and him famous and cemented it in street art history where otherwise it would have faded away behind a thousand tags.....which can't be bad.