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UFC star explains why he invited internet troll to spar before choking him out

UFC star Kevin Holland has detailed how he paid for an internet troll to grapple with him before choking him out.

Holland revealed he was being challenged to a grappling match on Instagram for months by a man called Jayden Parker.

In messages released by Holland, who is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the man said: "All I gotta say is even though you're a black belt I'm positive I could submit you... prove me wrong".

The top UFC middleweight took the troll up on his offer, paying for part of his trip to Texas to host the grappling match.

It didn't go well for Parker, as he shot a takedown on Holland only to be tapped out by a D'arce choke.

And Holland said his coaches at the Travis Lutter gym will allow anyone to come and challenge him.

"First I told him, I feel like he's a kid to me, 19 or 20 years old he's still a kid in my eyes. I told him hit his parents up and have them hit me up," Holland told ESPN.

"He informed me he didn't need to have his parents. I told him if you want to make your way out here, sign the waiver that's on you kid.

"Anybody can come to the gym, it's a public place. If you come to the gym and you've got a nasty attitude and you think you can do something to me, my coach will allow you to try.

"I paid a little bit of [his trip], not the whole thing. Paid for him to lay his head when he was here, got him some food."

Holland said he will "more than likely" release the extended version of their grappling match on his OnlyFans account.

And 'Bigmouth' revealed the troll was still "as arrogant" when he left the gym after being tapped out.

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"He pulls into the gym, coach asks me if I'm sure he wants to do this, we go inside the cage and we grapple, there's no words exchanged," he continued.

"No respect. Respect if you learn some situation, respect if you show up the gym and my coach doesn't feel like you're a complete dipstick.

"Just because you pull up, doesn't mean you get respect. Any dummy will pull up to a stupid situation. So no, no respect.

"I don't think the kid learned anything honestly. Nothing changed, still as arrogant, still had attitude. He left the gym, who knows what happened after that."

Holland will make his UFC welterweight debut in March when he fights Alex Oliveira at UFC 272.

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