Brennan Ward discusses abandoned baby rescue

Bellator welterweight Brennan Ward was at a filling station in his hometown of New London, Connecticut on Monday, when he saw that a baby carriage had blown into traffic.

“Cars were driving and swerving past it and I just ran out and saw that there was a baby in it,” said Ward to Chuck Mindenhall for MMA Fighting. “So I grabbed it and wheeled it over to the fire station down the road. It was already in traffic, and that’s a very busy intersection.”

“I saw it, and I had to look. I ran out there like there might be a baby in it, but not expecting there to actually be one.”

“She wasn’t moving. I was hoping it was sleeping.”

He took the baby to a fire station across the road.

“They didn’t really know what to do,” said The Irish Badboy. “I wasn’t panicked, but I was kind of yelling when I got in there. Of course, they don’t expect somebody to come wheeling in there saying they found a baby, either. Everyone was just kind of shocked.”

“I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal. I was doing what you should do. I was just doing the right thing. I was just doing what I feel like anybody else would do.”

The child, estimated at two to three years old, was transported to the hospital, where she checked out in good health. Her father, Matthew Simpson, 25, was apprehended after he was found drunk and asleep in the men’s room at the nearby train station.

Ward offered a two-word reply when asked if all the attention he has received would have any bearing on his fight with Saad Awad at Bellator 163.

“Hell no,” he explained.

Light heavyweight champion Liam McGeary fights Phil Davis in the main event of UFC 163, which takes place on Nov 4, 2016, at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Connecticut.