UFC and Bellator veteran Houston Alexander will take to the stage at BKFC 33 this Saturday. In a recent interview with MMAFighting, Alexander recalled the last time he was in a bareknuckle fight: one that was thoroughly unsanctioned, and saw him get shot by his opponent.
“I was in a bar, there was guys in there who were up to no good. A friend of mine was having a party at this event, and I just happened to go there and support my friend, but this place had the best burgers ever. So I’m ordering a burger at this place where my friend just happened to be having an event at; I was good with that.
Houston Alexander Recalls Getting Shot In His Last Bareknuckle Fight
When the event started and I was just sitting there waiting for my burger, this guy went up to this girl that we knew and he slapped her. He slapped her because she wouldn’t dance with him.” Alexander, at that point well versed in mixed martial arts, took matters into his own hands. “We went over like, ‘Hey, you can’t do this, you’ve got to go.’ So this guy tells me to f*** off.
I was like what? We said we don’t want no problems, you hit the girl, you’ve got to go. He tells me to f*** off again. It was like the Will Smith movie Hancock. It was a Hancock moment. I said, ‘Say f*** you one more time,’ and before the f*** came out of his mouth, I had hit him so hard.
After that I hit him with a series of knees. I kept kneeing this guy for maybe two minutes straight. His friends are trying to pull us apart, my friends are trying to pull us apart as we go out the door.”
The next thing he knew, the guy put a gun to Houston Alexander’s head. “Here’s the cherry on top. When they were rushing us out the door, somebody handed this guy a gun. Me not seeing this, this guy put the gun up to my head and fired the gun.
I didn’t see the gun. Somebody must have handed it to him. He redirected the gun, and the shot hit me in my leg. I didn’t realize I was shot until I jumped over a counter and ran out the back door. When I ran out the back door, I’m walking and I’m looking and I’m seeing blood go down my jeans. At first, I’m like, ‘Oh man, this guy just messed up my jeans!’
Next thing I know, I’m in the parking lot, [and] there were cops sitting there, because this guy was still shooting. He was blinded by the knees, because I kneed him in the head a thousand times, [and] he was still shooting. He shot a couple of people and myself, and the cops drew down on me like I did something. But the guy was in there shooting.
That was the last time I had any kind of unsanctioned bareknuckle fight.”
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