{"id":149626,"date":"2025-06-22T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149626\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:47:23","slug":"nfl-legend-adrian-peterson-gets-in-fistfight-w-poker-player-after-dispute-over-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149626\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Legend Adrian Peterson Gets In Fistfight W\/ Poker Player After Dispute Over Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NFL superstar Adrian Peterson<\/a> got into a fistfight with a poker player following a dispute over a hand … and the tussle was all captured on video, obtained by TMZ Sports.<\/p>\n

The shocking scene unfolded back on May 27 … while Peterson and others were playing cards at JokerStars — a social club in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

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Peterson tells us … he and one of his buddies were involved in a disagreement while at a gaming table, “one thing led to another,” and they squared up.<\/p>\n

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NFL Legend Adrian Peterson Gets In Fistfight W\/ Poker Player After Dispute Over Cards | TMZ Live<\/p>\n

The video shows the guys traded blows for several seconds, even after a man tried to separate the two.<\/p>\n

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Peterson took a flurry of punches to the face at the outset of the scrap, but once the fight spilled into a back wall, the ex-Minnesota Vikings running back appeared to land several haymakers.<\/p>\n

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We’re told after the guys were pulled apart, bloody wounds were visible on both their faces. Peterson, though, claimed he sustained his injury after he fell into a chair — not from a punch.<\/p>\n

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Alcohol was involved, Peterson told us, though he insisted it was not the reason things turned violent.<\/p>\n

“Me and the guy, we’re cool,” Peterson said. “We’ve known each other. It was literally like a brother situation. We agreed to disagree, we had our words, and we threw blows — and that was it.”<\/p>\n

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Peterson insisted after the bout ended, both guys made up.<\/p>\n

“I felt really bad,” Peterson said. “It’s a situation where I kind of regret it.”<\/p>\n

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Cops, we’re told, were not called to investigate the matter. JokerStars, meanwhile, did not punish either combatant, Peterson said.<\/p>\n

The future Pro Football Hall of Famer — who actually got into celebrity boxing<\/a> after his 15-year NFL career ended — has been an avid poker player in retirement. In fact, he was at JokerStars on Thursday when we spoke to him about the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL superstar Adrian Peterson got into a fistfight with a poker player following a dispute over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1141,7,6,34382,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-149626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-adrian-peterson","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-poker-player","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}