TEXAS CHOKEHOLD ‘EM: Man Put to Sleep by UFC Fighter to Settle Poker Debt

Was former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman being merciful or merciless when he agreed to choke out one among his pals to forgive his $5,000 poker debt? We’re undecided.

What’s just a little unconsciousness between pals? (Picture: Instagram @chrisweidman)

Weidman not too long ago posted a video to Instagram of the strangest means we’ve heard of to settle a playing debt. And it appeared means much less humorous than Weidman apparently thought it was.

“He misplaced in poker final night time,” Weidman wrote. “It was both pay 5k or get choked unconscious! What do you do?”

As proven within the video, the blended martial artist wrapped his arms across the neck of his good friend, who wasn’t recognized by title, and was alerted by another person within the room when consciousness was misplaced and the debt was forgiven.

Weidman’s good friend convulsed whereas getting back from seeing his grandmother on the finish of an extended tunnel of sunshine, then smiled and everybody had amusing.

That features these within the feedback, a few of which have been as brutal as Weidman’s loss by second-round TKO to Eryk Anders at UFC 310 in Las Vegas on December 7 within the catchweight division.

“The place was this throughout your struggle?” requested @discountlandxx wrote.

“Come on champ I might do what you couldn’t do final weekend you might be so significantly better than this please retire,” added @kev_bryant_sr.

Weidman, who holds a 16-8 document within the octagon, dabbles in poker, selling the World Collection of Poker free-to-play app in 2022.

And it’s good that he has a Plan B. As a result of on the post-fight press convention at UFC 310, CEO Dana White stated that Weidman, 40 — in addition to 36-year-old Anthony Smith and 43-year-old Clay Guida, who additionally have been equally brutalized — “ought to all retire tonight.”

Weidman has but to concern a press release about his loss or instructed retirement.