Who says all bloggers are guys in their pajamas, writing from their parents’ basement? Some of us are actually out there in the trenches, getting out hands dirty with some firsthand reporting. Like this here gonzo journalist, who’s on a mission to get choked out by an MMA Champion.
Thanks to Dewey Hammond at HARD FOR THE YARD, but even more thanks to Frank Shamrock for choking the s**t out of Dewey for our amusement. So we’ve got YouTube videos of Kimbo Slice giving a kid a charley horse for $100, and we’ve got YouTube videos of Frank Shamrock squeezing a man’s windpipe and knocking him unconscious in seven seconds. And we thought Slice was a legitimate fighter, why? (Video after the jump.)
Dewey looks a little like Trent Green after his 8th concussion, but once he comes back to earth, he sounds like a paid advocate for the choking game. No wonder kids are so into it.
If you’re curious what it feels like to be choked unconscious, I’ll sum it up for you in one word: INCREDIBLE. If it was a drug you could take in pill form, I would pop it daily. As soon as Frank finished, I wanted him to do it again. Time slowed down. There was a musical buzzing. I had no idea if I was waking up or going dark. It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced, or at least not like anything that I’m willing to admit that I’ve tried.
Why do I feel like I ought to post an INXS video now?






11:15 am on November 19th, 2008
Nothing like watching a sports blogger enjoy some MMA fighter-assisted auto-erotic asphyxiation.
11:26 am on November 19th, 2008
This is just weird.
11:42 am on November 19th, 2008
Dewey, no need to get all choked up over this.
1:05 pm on November 19th, 2008
HAHA we used to choke each other out as kids. I would even do it to myself occasionally.
12:17 pm on November 23rd, 2008
Of course, the little matter that it is a felony to render someone unconscious is not an issue I guess. The reason it is criminal is that often the artery does not return to the normal size and the person is left altered or dead. Can this be more stupid?