It was funny but my point is that the optics of that indecent make Pedro look like he is a bully and many people chastised him for what he did.
I don't get, though. Some crazed old man takes a run at you what are you to do exactly? Stop to intellectualize your response? Meanwhile a 230 pound man is trying to hurt you.
Pedro could have stood there and traded shots with Zimmer. That could have been catastrophic.
Throwing him to the ground ended it before it had a chance to be really bad.