UFC fighter Kevin Holland choked out internet troll in grappling match after more than a year of harassment

Kevin Holland called an internet troll’s bluff by choking him out in a grappling match.

Holland, the loquacious UFC fighter nicknamed “Big Mouth,” said he had been getting messages on social media for months from a man, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, who claimed he could submit Holland. So Holland took him up on the offer, picked up the cost of some travel expenses and invited the man, whose name is Jayden Parker, into his gym last Saturday.

Over the weekend, Holland posted videos of the match at Travis Lutter Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Fort Worth, Texas. And it didn’t appear to go very well for Parker. In the video, Holland can be seen forcing Parker to tap out to a modified D’arce choke on the ground.

“I choked him,” Holland told ESPN on Monday.

Holland said Parker had been messaging him on Instagram since last year saying, with coarse language, that he could make Holland tap out. Following a breakout 2020 in which he went 5-0, Holland had a difficult 2021 in the UFC with two losses and a no contest, and his wrestling and grappling skills came under the microscope. Derek Brunson and Marvin Vettori, both top middleweights, used their wrestling to ground Holland en route to unanimous decision victories.

But Brunson and Vettori are elite UFC fighters, not random people on social media. Holland said he ultimately agreed to the match in order to teach Parker a lesson. He said he paid for…