A good friend of former UFC middleweight titleholder Chris Weidman was left with an attention-grabbing selection — pay up your poker debt or get choked unconscious.
In a video clip posted on Weidman’s Instagram, ‘All-American’ fastidiously put one in every 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 good friend selected the previous, and the outcomes had been precisely what you’d anticipate.
“He Lost in poker last night,” Weidman wrote. “It was either 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 good friend 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 reside on digicam, just for her to spring alive and exclaim that the expertise was higher than medication.
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After ending a three-year-long streak with no victory, Weidman climbed again into the win column final 12 months with a technical resolution over Bruno Silva, although the W got here with a heaping spoonful of controversy.
Sadly, ‘All American’ couldn’t maintain the momentum getting into his return to the Octagon at UFC 310 earlier this month, struggling a brutal second-round knockout towards Eryk Anders within the promotion’s remaining pay-per-view occasion of 2024.