UFC Bantamweight Cody Gibson Gets In Drunken Brawl

Bantamweight Cody Gibson nearly had his second UFC win locked up at September 27’s UFC 178 pay-per-view (PPV) from Las Vegas, but he allowed Manny Gamburyan to come back and submit him in the second round. The loss sent him to his second in three total UFC bouts after he lost his octagon debut to Aljamain Sterling at February’s UFC 170.

Although he did destroy The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) competitor Johnny Bedford with strikes at UFC Fight 44 in June, Gibson could be on thin ice with the world’s biggest MMA promotion. Today, however, video evidence surfaced that Gibson may be getting in trouble of an entirely different kind. Media outlet TMZ released the following footage of Gibson getting into a drunken brawl at a Las Vegas nightclub. Watch Gibson argue with a much larger patron, getting punched in the face after asking, “You know who I am? Google me bitch!”:

It appears that Gibson wasn’t taking the situation entirely seriously until he was punched, dancing around with his fists in the air like a boxing leprechaun. But it appeared that his larger nemesis wanted none of it, throwing a blow that incited a brawl that was caught on video like every sort of-exciting happening in today’s cell phone/Instagram/Twitter/etc. world.

Gibson immediately shot for a takedown, appearing to score a double leg before his foe went for a guillotine. The brawl seemed to end with Gibson scoring a trip takedown to land on top as a mass of intervening people well, intervened.

No one was arrested in the alcohol-fueled spectacle, but who knows what would have happened if the fight was not stopped.

Regardless, this is the type of event that the UFC simply does not need in the wake of the UFC 178 Media Day Brawl between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier. Both Jones and Cormier were fined for their actions and will complete community service. But those are title contenders, the true elite of the sport who will soon be competing in arguably the most hate-fueled bout existing in the UFC today.

The same can hardly be said for Gibson, who isn’t even a winning fighter in the UFC. Something tells me Gibson may have unintentionally lessened the amount of important information that his revered Google searches will reveal about him.