A pal of former UFC middleweight titleholder Chris Weidman was left with an attention-grabbing alternative — pay up your poker debt or get choked unconscious.
In a video clip posted on Weidman’s Instagram, ‘All-American’ rigorously put certainly one of his acquaintances to sleep whereas revealing within the caption that it was both that or pay $5,000 after an evening of playing. As you may see, the pal selected the previous, and the outcomes had been precisely what you’d count on.
“He Misplaced in poker final night time,” Weidman wrote. “It was both pay 5k or get choked unconscious! What do you do?”
It’s definitely not the primary time knowledgeable fighter has taken the chance to choke out a pal or fan. Who can bear in mind the time Steve-O stepped contained in the Octagon so one other former middleweight titleholder — Michael Bisping — might put him in a chokehold?
Then there’s the time that Dillon Danis put Elle Brooke to sleep stay on digital camera, just for her to spring alive and exclaim that the expertise was higher than medicine.
Dana White encourages Weidman to retire following brutal loss at UFC 310
After ending a three-year-long streak with out a victory, Weidman climbed again into the win column final yr with a technical choice over Bruno Silva, although the W got here with a heaping spoonful of controversy.
Sadly, ‘All American’ couldn’t preserve the momentum getting in his return to the Octagon at UFC 310 earlier this month, struggling a brutal second-round knockout in opposition to Eryk Anders within the promotion’s remaining pay-per-view occasion of 2024.
Following the loss, UFC CEO Dana White strongly recommended that Weidman lay down his gloves and name it a profession.
