Another robber gets clobbered, MMA fan clerk makes him clean up the blood
Bad guys getting stopped by MMA is become a trend. In February, UFC fan Joseph Lozito ended a 28-hour stabbing…
Bad guys getting stopped by MMA is become a trend.
In February, UFC fan Joseph Lozito ended a 28-hour stabbing and murder spree, when he disarmed an attacker in the New York subway system.
In March coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn were out on a training hike with Jon Jones in Patterson, NJ on Saturday afternoon, hours before fight time when they thwarted a robbery in progress, and chased down the criminal, holding him for police.
In early November two UGers, a fighter and trainer checking into a hotel for the no-gi Mundials, walked into an armed robbery in progress. They subdued the robber, and he was arrested.
In early December, a would-be mugger on Chicago’s Southwest Side picked on the wrong person — a mixed-martial artist — and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle, the police say.
In the latest incident, a self-described “big fan of mixed martial arts” knocked an armed robber out, and then made him clean up his own blood with some paper towels. That is the definition of defending yourself like a boss.
It happened about 15 minutes before closing time Friday night at We Buy Gold store in Hendersonville.
When he came through the door he told me had a gun and he even flashed it,” said Derek Mothershead. I stood up and threw my hands up and said, ‘Take the money.’
I got the money and he had the bag out and instead of putting it in the bag I stuck it out and said, ‘Just take it.’ So, when he reached out, I took a step in, I cocked back and preloaded and I hit him hard, Mothershead told News 4’s Mike McCormick.
The punch knocked out the would-be thief. Mothershead was able to grab the man’s weapon and realized it was a pellet gun.
When I pulled it out of his waistband I started laughing, said Mothershead. I said, ‘Man, you came in here with a fake gun?'”
Mothershead said he dragged the man over to a desk and held him down with one hand and called 911 with the other.
The man, later identified as Mostafa Hendi, eventually regained consciousness.
He kind of begged me, begged me to let him go, Mothershead said. I said, ‘You came in and tried to rob us. You’re going to jail.’
While they waited for police and paramedics, Mothershead gave Hendi a roll of power towels, sprayed the floor with cleaner and told him to clean up his own blood.
At the time you really don’t think you hit somebody as hard as you do, but looking back at the tape I can say I hit him pretty hard, I guess,” Mothershead said.
There was just an opportunity there where I thought that I could actually do something and justice could be served, and I thought that’s what needed to be done, said Mothershead.
“It’s not even worth hitting us,” said Mothershead. “We’ve got a fast-retrieval money system in order and we really don’t carry that much money to begin with, so there’s no point in hitting us.
In a sobering moment, in April of this year amateur MMA fighter Kearn Nedd scuffled with gunmen holding up a bingo game, and was shot dead. Only use force against an armed attacker if there is no alternative.