Agreeing to a grappling match with a 230lb Navy SEAL legend has bad news written all over it, as this journalist discovered firsthand.

The writer in question was Jason Howerton, an editor with theblaze..com who had initially got in touch with Jocko Willink to offer him a fitness challenge.

Instead, Willink suggested they have a grappling match, and against his better judgment, the 180lb Howerton agreed.

At this point it’s worth pointing out that Willink is truly a badass amongst badasses, someone that even other members of the Special Forces look up to, and with good reason.

Willink served in SEAL teams for 20 years and was the leader of SEAL Task Unit Bruiser during the infamous Battle Of Ramadi in Iraq in 2006.

Under his command, the Bruiser unit became the most highly decorated Special Ops unit during the Iraq war, and afterwards he was awarded both the Bronze Star and Silver Star.

By that stage he was so highly regarded that he’d go on to become the Officer-In-Charge of training for all SEAL teams on the West Coast of the United States, before retiring in 2010.

So, that stellar resume on it’s own is enough to know that Willink is among the last people on earth that you’d ever want to mess with in any given situation.

However, on top of all that you also have to consider the fact that Willink is a seasoned Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner who has been training in the art since 1995, and earned his black belt under highly decorated grappler and former UFC fighter, Dean Lister.

All of the above reasons help illustrate why the only advice Willink could offer poor Jason Howerton that day at the Victory MMA And Fitness gym in San Diego before their grappling match was, Brace for impact and accept your fate.

Willink would then go on to manhandle Howerton and tie him up like a pretzel, tapping him out multiple times during their session on the mat, before sealing the deal by choking him out [at his opponent’s request we hasten to add].

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Though he completely dominated Howerton, Willink was humble enough to admit that despite his imposing size and years of experience in grappling, there are still smaller guys at the gym who can get the better of him due to the fact that they’ve been training for longer than him.

Understandably, nobody seemed in a big hurry to test out that theory on that particular day though, with another famous BJJ player at the gym, Jeff ‘The Pipelayer’ Glover admitting that, [Jocko] is not only the most dangerous guy in the gym in many ways, he’s probably the most dangerous guy in town!