Video Surfaces of Insane Adrian Peterson Poker Night Fist Fight

Adrian Peterson is the greatest running back in Minnesota Vikings history. During his 10-year career in purple, AP carried the ball 2,418 times for an absurd 11,747 rushing yards, 97 touchdowns and a whopping 4.9 YPC average.

Unfortunately, Peterson was never the same running back once he left Minnesota, totalling less than 3,000 yards between six different teams, over the course of five seasons from 2017-2021. To this day, the Vikings legend and future NFL Hall of Famer has yet to retire, even though he’s now 40 years old and hasn’t played for three seasons.

Then, there’s the Adrian Peterson we have come to know off the field. And that AP, while always approachable and great with Vikings fans, is nowhere near as spectacular as the guy who laced it up and ran over professional football players for a decade.

Off the field, AP has had multiple run-ins with police, including recently. His most infamous off-field legal issue stemmed from a child abuse scandal that turned his life and the 2014 Minnesota Vikings season upside down. The former Oklahoma Sooner has also dealt with money issues that have lead to disputes over some of his merchandise and who owns it.

Adrian Peterson gets into fist fight over poker dispute

But what happened this week, at what was supposed to be a fun night of bar poker, definitely lands near the top of ‘WTF moments’ (both on and off the field), since we were introduced to Adrian Peterson back when he was drafted by the Vikings in 2007.

Former #NFL superstar #AdrianPeterson got into a fistfight with a poker player following a dispute over a hand … and #TMZSports has obtained video of the tussle. pic.twitter.com/WdhcZFHwBt

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) June 19, 2025

According to TMZ Sports, the poker room brawl broke out weeks ago, on May 27, at a poker club in Houston, called “JokerStars”. Peterson told TMZ that alcohol was involved in the altercation and that “one thing led to another”, after he and his buddies had a disagreement at the table.

AP made sure to let TMZ know that his bloody wounds were attained when he fell and hit a chair, not because of a punch he took. Video evidence does not back up his claim, however.

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.

TMZ Sports

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Have you ever been around Adrian Peterson? He’s a monster who stands at 6’1″, 220 lbs of pure muscle. Yet, when a dispute broke out between AP and this Random Poker Player the other night, not only did Random Poker Player hold his own… he might have won this fight, had it gone to judges.

Eventually, right before the video cuts off, that Peterson’s sheer size and strength eventually overcomes Random Poker Player, but not after Adrian catches multiple fists to the face/head area. We do not know exactly what sparked the fight, as of now. If more video or information surfaces on this brawl, it will be added to this article.