A good friend of former UFC middleweight titleholder Chris Weidman was left with an fascinating selection — 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 may see, the good friend selected the previous, and the outcomes have been precisely what you’d anticipate.
“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 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 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 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 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 ultimate pay-per-view occasion of 2024.
Following the loss, UFC CEO Dana White strongly prompt that Weidman lay down his gloves and name it a profession.
