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’ fastidiously put considered 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’ll be able to see, the pal selected the previous, and the outcomes have been precisely what you’d anticipate.
“He Misplaced in poker final evening,” Weidman wrote. “It was both pay 5k or get choked unconscious! What do you do?”
It’s definitely not the primary time an expert fighter has taken the chance to choke out a pal or fan. Who can keep in mind the time Steve-O stepped contained in the Octagon so one other former middleweight titleholder — Michael Bisping — may put him in a chokehold?
Then there’s the time that Dillon Danis put Elle Brooke to sleep stay on digicam, just for her to spring alive and exclaim that the expertise was higher than medication.
Dana White encourages Weidman to retire following brutal loss at UFC 310
After ending a three-year-long streak and not using a victory, Weidman climbed again into the win column final 12 months with a technical determination over Bruno Silva, although the W got here with a heaping spoonful of controversy.
Sadly, ‘All American’ couldn’t preserve the momentum moving into 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 closing pay-per-view occasion of 2024.
Following the loss, UFC CEO Dana White strongly instructed that Weidman lay down his gloves and name it a profession.
