One of the baddest dudes on the planet was once hospitalised because of bullying.
UFC middleweight champion solidified his position as one of the best fighters on the planet with wins over Anderson Silva, Lyot Machida and Vitor Belfort. To use a Joe Roganism, he’s a “motherf***er”, and he’s hoping to defend his title yet again in the co-main event at UFC 194 when he takes on Luke Rockhold.
However, before the UFC, Weidman was a victim of bullying. The below video shows the All-American opening up about the awful abuse he suffered at the hands of his brother growing up, which resulted in him being regularly sent to hospital.
“My brother was probably one of the toughest kids from my neighborhood and he didn’t make it easy on me. He made sure I was getting beat up as much as possible growing up. If he wasn’t beating me up, he was making his friends beat me up. He threw a 10 pound weight on my head because I wouldn’t get him a cookie. Split my forehead open pretty good.”
Weidman also recounted one particularly gruesome anecdote of being beaten up after he fell off his bike.
“Did a flip, landed on my shoulder, broke my collarbone totally clean. Clean off. My brother, he didn’t believe it was broken, so he made all of his friends line up and punch me in the arm and told me I’d be crying if it was truly broken. After I got punched by everybody, it was the worst thing I ever went through.”
He explained that he was forced to walk home alone and wait hours for his mother to come home before he could go to hospital to be treated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snoyeXwSlUI
