VIDEO: Michael Bisping, UFC Fighter Choke Steve-O & YouTuber Unconscious
After the conclusion of UFC Vegas 73 on May 20, legendary 'Jackass' member Steve-O and YouTuber Stephen "Stevewilldoit" Deleonardis found themselves rendered unconscious in a friendly display of skill by Michael Bisping and Marvin Vettori.
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"Marvin [Vettori's] going to do Steve [Deleaonardis], I'm going to do Steve-O," Bisping exclaimed.
Bisping uploaded to his YouTube channel on May 21, where he and Vettori raced to see who could submit their 'victim' the fastest with a rear-naked choke:
"Marvin's going to choke out Steve [Deleonardis], I'm going to choke out Steve-O... you're a f***ing weirdo. Why do you want to do this?" Bisping asked.
"Well, because I'm an attention wh*** ---" Steve-O couldn't finish his sentence before Bisping and Vettori bantered.
Assuring the two that it wouldn't hurt, Bisping remarked that when he was choked out by Georges Saint-Pierre, "the only thing that hurt, was that when I came around, I wasn't champion of the world anymore."
"Just one more time for the cameras," Bisping declared before the race began. "We're in agreeance, right? There's no lawsuits?" After the air was cleared, the two fighters applied their chokes.
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Cameras focused on Steve-O, who was rendered unconscious in roughly 10 seconds. A concerned Bisping placed Steve-O's head gently on the ground, the 'Jackass' star eventually came around, lifting his head.
There was a moment of confusion, before Steve-O exclaimed, "Oh sh**!"
Bisping clarified he was scared he'd hurt Steve-O, having heard clicks coming from his neck when applying the choke. All was good, however, and nobody was harmed in the jovial stunt.
Steve-O Tried to Give Himself Cauliflower Ear, Enlisted UFC Stars to Help
Steve-O, a self-admitted fan of UFC and MMA, once tried to give himself cauliflower ear on purpose, with the help of several UFC stars.
The Jackass star discussed his fruitless endeavors in great detail on the 1900th episode of "The Joe Rogan Podcast" in November, 2022:
"I became buddies with Chuck Liddell .... I made this helmet that left my ears sticking out, and I got Chuck Liddell [to set] a golf ball on my ear and whack it off with a golf club.
"Then I got together with Ronda Rousey and I was on the mats with her .... roughing up my ear all day long. Then I got together with Jorge Masvidal, he put his [Baddest Motherf***er belt] over my ear and he's just punching it against a door.
"Then I got together with Jon Jones .... Jon Jones blasted my ear into oblivion. We took, at the time, his light heavyweight belt and --- he so upsettingly overdid it, that my ear got blasted apart."
Steve-O elaborated on the Jones story on Daniel Cormier's "Multifaceted Podcast" in June, 2022:
"So we're at Jon Jones' house, and he's got his barbells. We put my ear in-between the weights, and he's elbowing [them]. My ear comes out of there and Jon Jones says 'That's it, you got it, that's cauliflower ear!', and then a few days later, nothing happened.
"So the last thing we did .... on one of his workout machines. I put my ear on the metal base, he puts his [light heavyweight belt] on my ear on this metal thing and he's hitting it with a hammer. A full-blown Home Depot hammer!
"All of a sudden --- one hit --- and blood just spatters out from underneath this belt. We look, and sure enough, my ear is blasted apart, to where a whole piece of my ear is just hanging down.
"We got a pair of scissors and just chopped off this whole piece. Jon chopped it off."
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