That whole article was a great read! (here is the Quinn part)
On June 25, 1996, bodybuilder Michael Quinn was sitting in Liquid's V.I.P. room when he called a fellow patron "a black." On hearing this, Paciello sideswiped the former Mr. Universe with a bottle to the head. After suffering a broken nose and facial fractures, Quinn threatened to sue. Paciello sent a message back via an intermediary that the victim would "never live to spend the money" if he pressed the lawsuit.
"The only way this could have happened, where somebody of Paciello's size could have taken somebody of Mike Quinn's size with one shot, would be if it were a sucker punch, which is what it was, and with the use of a weapon, which is the use of a bottle," says Quinn's lawyer, Peter Mineo.