Tony
18-06-2008, 18:25
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“I told the guys it’s a blood choke, so you don’t have to squeeze hard. So I was just kind of choking him with one arm while he’s standing up. And I told him just tap when you start to feel like you’re going to pass out. Well, he didn’t tap, and at the time I’m going wow, this guy’s pretty tough, I’m surprised he hasn’t tapped yet. He just drops to the floor in the cell. Now I’m standing there with 20 prisoners around and they’re freaking out. This guy’s laying there, snoring like crazy. I’m like ‘it’s all right, it’s all right,’ then I realize they have cameras in here. I’ve just choked this guy out in jail – I could get in trouble for this. I kept telling them, ‘he’s fine, he’s fine,’ and it took this guy a minute to wake up. Finally he woke up and we had a laugh, and luckily I didn’t get in any trouble for it. That was beginning and the ending of my inmate coaching career.”
– UFC middleweight fighter Chris Leben — who recently served an 11-day bit in Clackamas County Jail in Portland, Oregon, for a parole violation (he was also under house arrest for 25 days after his release) — tells MMAWeekly.com a little bit about the the confining experience. “The Crippler” seems to be a better man as a result and has his sights set on an August return to the Octagon. While incarcerated he had to miss a planned fight against Michael Bisping at UFC 85: “Bedlam” — perhaps that match up is still on the table for later this year.
“I told the guys it’s a blood choke, so you don’t have to squeeze hard. So I was just kind of choking him with one arm while he’s standing up. And I told him just tap when you start to feel like you’re going to pass out. Well, he didn’t tap, and at the time I’m going wow, this guy’s pretty tough, I’m surprised he hasn’t tapped yet. He just drops to the floor in the cell. Now I’m standing there with 20 prisoners around and they’re freaking out. This guy’s laying there, snoring like crazy. I’m like ‘it’s all right, it’s all right,’ then I realize they have cameras in here. I’ve just choked this guy out in jail – I could get in trouble for this. I kept telling them, ‘he’s fine, he’s fine,’ and it took this guy a minute to wake up. Finally he woke up and we had a laugh, and luckily I didn’t get in any trouble for it. That was beginning and the ending of my inmate coaching career.”
– UFC middleweight fighter Chris Leben — who recently served an 11-day bit in Clackamas County Jail in Portland, Oregon, for a parole violation (he was also under house arrest for 25 days after his release) — tells MMAWeekly.com a little bit about the the confining experience. “The Crippler” seems to be a better man as a result and has his sights set on an August return to the Octagon. While incarcerated he had to miss a planned fight against Michael Bisping at UFC 85: “Bedlam” — perhaps that match up is still on the table for later this year.