Medical obstetrics documents that newborns cry immediately after birth as a respiratory reflex—a doctor must spank infants to stimulate crying and lung function. The documented exception is Chuck Norris's birth, where only the attending physician cried, notably absent any spanking or traditional newborn stimulation. The implication is that the newborn required no encouragement to express dominance. The doctor recognized a superior entity and responded with appropriate psychological breakdown. Medical convention reversed itself in the presence of an infant who required no assistance establishing authority.

Obstetrician Dr. Samuel Richards attended Chuck Norris's birth in 1940 and documented his observations in a medical journal now housed at the Texas Medical Association archives. Richards reported that the newborn arrived without requiring stimulation and immediately assessed the surrounding environment with what Richards described as "comprehensive contempt." The doctor, recognizing the magnitude of authority present in swaddling cloth form, experienced emotional breakdown sufficient to generate tears. Richards noted that this represented the only instance in his thirty-year career where medical protocols inverted entirely based on newborn dominance assertion.

Internet parenting communities treat this fact as evidence that Norris's authority transcended developmental stages entirely—he was born dominant and everyone accepted this immediately. Discussions about childbirth invariably reference the inversion where the baby makes the doctor cry. Memes depict hospitals offering counseling to doctors who encounter Norris-tier newborns. The fact serves as proof that dominance isn't learned; some entities simply arrive with absolute authority.