How did Chris Leben cut those last few pounds for his Brian Stann fight?

By vomiting all over himself after a night of hard drinking. Suddenly, a rubber suit and the sauna doesn't sound so bad. But that's the kind of rocky life "The Crippler" was living in the days leading up to his UFC 125 appearance, and as he tells Submission Radio, "it was a nightmare."

His words:

"Right before I fought Brian Stann I actually went out. My brother worked in Las Vegas in a place that sold those frozen drinks, you know? Anyways, I got blackout drunk the day before weigh ins. I went back into the Hard Rock and for some reason something upset me, so I was in the bathroom stall the back bathroom stall and I kicked my way all the way to the exit by kicking the stall walls down. They were like marble stall walls, so I just decided to kick all the stall walls down to the exit, and big surprise I got arrested. So the security guard for Hard Rock is handcuffing me and everything else and the guys I was with where like from Ireland, and apparently they thought I was Irish too because I was just mocking their accent, fucking with them, but I think they literally thought I was Irish, and so I ended up bribing my way out. So before his reinforcements came I gave him $500 bucks, he let me run up to my room. Ended up waking up. My phone is ringing off like crazy and wake up in a pile of puke and I'm late for my photo shoot for the UFC. It was a nightmare 'cause I thought I was only eight in the morning, but somehow I set the alarm wrong on the wall, and that's the time I wanted to wake up. I thought it was eight in the morning, but it was actually noon. And that was maybe two, maybe three days before I had to step in and have a war with Brian Stann."

Yuck.

Leben ended up getting knocked out by Stann in the first round, part of a dreadful 1-5 run that ended with last January's retirement. The good news is, Leben -- one of the original Ultimate Fighters -- was able to get clean and sober and can now focus on his gym.

Just don't upset him in the bathroom.