UFC light heavyweight Stephan Bonnar was a guest on HDNet's Inside MMA last night, and had an amusing story to tell about an overseas trip to visit U.S. troops. Bonnar, Rich Franklin, and Keith Jardine went to Bahrain, and it took "The American Psycho" a while to get out. And he didn't get out unscathed. Here's the story (transcription via MMA Mania):
"We're getting ready to leave Bahrain, and I get detained at the airport. Jardine and Franklin get on the flight, and they take me in the room. They're asking me all these questions, and they're furious. One guy's coming in the room and pointing at me, all furious, like that. And, what I think is that, I had on the 'Young Assassin' shirt, with Melvin Guillard, and there's a guy with a turban with his brains spillin' out. I don't think they liked that too much."
Here's the shirt he's talking about. Catch the rest of the story, including what caused the nasty wound the in picture, after the jump.
"There was only one flight out for the day at 9:30 p.m. The United flight that I was on. They kept me at the airport so long, I missed my flight. I had to wait till the next day to get on the flight. So, I'm tired. I'm sleeping at the airport, and all of a sudden, I wake up to a burning sensation on my leg. It scared me. I went and brushed down on my leg and, sure enough, a spider about the size of my hand comes crawling out of my pant leg and takes off running! I couldn't believe my eyes! This big camel spider goes under the door. I try to chase it. I lose it, and then, my God, my leg swells up, I get a fever, it's getting infected...but, hey, I'm getting the heck out of there. The next night, I'm on that 9:30 flight, I'm ready to board that flight when, lo and behold...THAT flight gets canceled! So I'm stuck there another day! So, I had the option of going in for an antibiotic IV or stay in the hospital a few days, but instead, I opted to go the oral route, three different kinds of antibiotics, and I got on that flight that next day and got the hell out of there! God bless America!"
Bonnar last stepped into the cage at UFC 139 where he defeated Kyle Kingsbury by unanimous decision.



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