We're not sure if we'd be so brave and crazy as to pick a fight with Axl Rose while we were holding a three-week old baby in our arms, but by his own account that's exactly what Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain did at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

As Cobain tells it, "Axl Rose walked by us (Cobain and wife Courtney Love), and we yelled at Axl, we said (sarcastically), 'would you be the godfather of our child?'" Reportedly, the Guns N' Roses frontman turned to Kurt and declared, "You better keep your wife shut, or I'm gonna take you to the pavement." Luckily, cooler heads prevailed, and nobody was hurt except Nirvana's goofball bassist, who threw his instrument high in the air and caught it with his own head that same evening.

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