UFC 203 Fighters trapped in elevator
World champion trapped in elevator at UFC 203
Fear of public speaking, heights, the dark, death, failure, and spiders are all common. But most people have as well wondered at someone point whether the elevator they are in will fall.
It happened in Cleveland, at UFC 203.
UFC heavyweight champ Fabricio Werdum, plus bantamweight Urijah Faber, welterweight Yancy Medeiros, middleweight Brad Tavares, coaches Rafael Cordeiro and Justin Buchholz, and several others were all jammed in an elevator after weigh-ins.
It was the most dangerous elevator this side of an ICBM silo. But then it snapped.
“We loaded up the elevator after weigh ins and it dropped with the door open!!!” wrote Team Alpha Male head coach Buchholz on Instagram. “Thank you God we only fell one floor and we were only trapped for like 10 min in the basement cause we were running out of air.”
Like any normal person, Buchholz video taped the action, and posted it to his social network.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKJ3PakjA7U
Faber posted a pic of the grateful survivors.
“Survivors!” he wrote. “Elevator just snapped and we dropped 3 floors to the basement.”
Werdum offered an explanation.
“Maybe we ate too much after making weight,” he quipped.
And the fighters had it easy, as it was after weigh-ins. Heavyweight title challenger Alistair Overeem got stuck in an elevator before weigh-ins, and was fined $500.
If you do ever find yourself trapped in an elevator, here are the seven steps to take:
1. Stay calm. Take a deep breath and relax your body.
2. Find a light source if the lights are out. Open your cell phone and use the flashlight feature, or simply the glow of the screen. Quickly get a sense of how many people are stuck in the elevator with you.
3. Press the call button, to contact a technician to help you.
4. If there’s no answer, try phoning for help, if your cell phone has reception.
5. Press the door open and the door close buttons, as sometimes they get jammed. Also try to press the buttons of the floors above and below you.
6. If you can’t phone for help, try to shout or call for help, and bang on the door of the elevator with shoes or other objects and yell to alert passersby. Depending on the sound transmittance of the door, tapping firmly with a key on the door may make a loud sound throughout the elevator shaft. Note, shouting or yelling excessively can also cause you to panic more, so make sure you try to stay reasonably calm when you are calling for help.
7. Wait it out.
Source: Wiki