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

Posted on: December 24, 2024, 11:39h. 

Last updated on: December 24, 2024, 11:55h.

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Was former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman being merciful or cruel when he agreed to choke out one of his friends to forgive his $5,000 poker debt? We’re not sure.

What’s a little unconsciousness between friends? (Image: Instagram @chrisweidman)

Weidman recently posted a video to Instagram of the strangest way we’ve heard of to settle a gambling debt. And it seemed way less funny than Weidman apparently thought it was.

“He lost in poker last night,” Weidman wrote. “It was either pay 5k or get choked unconscious! What do you do?”

As shown in the video, the mixed martial artist wrapped his arms around the neck of his friend, who wasn’t identified by name, and was alerted by someone else in the room when consciousness was lost and the debt was forgiven.

Weidman’s friend convulsed while coming back from seeing his grandmother at the end of a long tunnel of light, then smiled and everyone had a laugh.

That includes those in the comments, some of which were as brutal as Weidman’s loss by second-round TKO to Eryk Anders at UFC 310 in Las Vegas on December 7 in the catchweight division.

“Where was this during your fight?” asked @discountlandxx wrote.

“Come on champ I could do what you couldn’t do last weekend you are so much better than this please retire,” added @kev_bryant_sr.

Weidman, who holds a 16-8 record in the octagon, dabbles in poker, promoting the World Series of Poker free-to-play app in 2022.

And it’s good that he has a Plan B. Because at the post-fight press conference at UFC 310, CEO Dana White said that Weidman, 40 — as well as 36-year-old Anthony Smith and 43-year-old Clay Guida, who also were equally brutalized — “should all retire tonight.”

Weidman has yet to issue a statement about his loss or suggested retirement.