If the following tale isn’t the best out of all of Emily Whitmire’s streetfight stories, we’ve got to say: We’re very curious.

In fairness, it wasn’t really a fight, in that there wasn’t much of an exchange. But the reason why it stuck out for Whitmire (3-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) is the serious consequences she had to deal with afterward: namely jail time, probation and anger management.

It all started, as these things commonly do, at a bar. Whitmire, who recently scored her first UFC win with a decision over Jaime Moyle, ran into a friend – well, more like an acquaintance, she amends – who she hadn’t really been getting along with.

“She had come over and said something to me,” Whitmire told MMAjunkie Radio. “I had had one too many, so I proceeded to get up. I ended up throwing a few shots, and I left right after that. So it really wasn’t like a very big fight, I just punched her in the face three times.”

The girl wasn’t a fighter, Whitmire clarified, but came aggressively toward her. In any case, that wasn’t the end of it.

“Two days later, I get a knock on my door after I get home from work, and it’s the sheriff,” Whitmire said.

Whitmire was sent to jail that night and had to be bailed out. She ended up pleading guilty to assault charges and got two years probation. She had to take anger management.

She also had to do some time, and that’s when it gets interesting.

The jail, she said, was overcrowded. So, instead of just staying there, Whitmire had her time split between 12-hour blocks. She drove herself to jail every day, for five days, and stayed there, in a holding cell, between 9 a.m. and at 9 p.m.

“What I did is I would get home at night, and I would go work out, and try and stay up all night and I would just go in there in the morning and I would just sleep all day,” Whitmire said.

Whitmire says this isn’t even her best street fight story, but it was, understandably, a memorable one – and “the last,” which leads us to believe that thankfully all the punching is taking place within the confines of a cage now.

“It was literally so much (expletive) over something so dumb and little,” Whitmire said. “I was really upset about it, because I was like, I was drunk, I shouldn’t have punched the girl, but I did anyway. And I just ended up having to jail. All this stuff.

“She’d done something dumb and I was mad about it. Just like pride, I don’t know. Just really stupid. Just dumb.”

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