Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) No. 3 ranked light heavyweight Anthony Smith used a kitchen knife to fight off a home invader Sunday morning in Nebraska.
Yahoo Sports reports that Smith was asleep when his wife woke him at 4 a.m., after hearing noises. Smith then heard a suspect in the house who was “screaming at the top of his lungs.”
Smith went to find the man while his wife gathered their daughters in a bedroom behind a closed door for safety.
ESPN reports that Smith then discovered the suspect, Luke Haberman, and fight ensued:
Smith fights at 205 pounds. Somehow, he said, this man who weighed around 170 pounds was still coming at him, an elite UFC fighter, for minutes.
“No normal human is able to fight like that,” Smith said. “I’m by no means the baddest dude on the planet. But he’s a regular Joe and I had a hard time dealing with him. And he took everything that I gave him — every punch, every knee, every elbow. He took every single one of them and kept fighting me.”
Smith said his mother-in-law brought him a “kitchen knife” at some point during the struggle, “which he held to Haberman.”
MMA Junkie reports that police then arrived to help subdue Haberman.
Smith said, “I’m not lying when I said it was one of the toughest fights I’ve had in my whole life. I went into that fight ready to die. Nobody smart breaks into a house in the middle of the night unarmed. … When they break in at night, it’s to hurt people.”
Smith told ESPN MMA that he sleeps with a gun within reach “99.9 percent of the time,” but his gun was in a bag when the invasion occurred.
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