Watch a Florida MMA fighter wrestle a 10ft alligator and win by sitting on his shoulders
“I felt like Batman”: See how a Florida MMA fighter wrestles a 10ft alligator and wins by sitting on his shoulders after being found walking around in an elementary school parking lot
- Mike Dragic wrestled the alligator in front of spectators in Jacksonville
A video has surfaced of a Florida MMA fighter wrestling with a 10-foot alligator and holding it on his shoulders.
Amateur fighter Mike Dragich, 33, took on the unusual opponent in a parking lot near a Jacksonville elementary school.
Dragich wrestled the alligator in front of a cheering crowd.
“I really felt like Batman,” he told FOX 35 Orlando.
‘We get there. I went through the gate. And boom. It was ready to go right out of the parking lot and all we had to do was get the job done,” he added.
Amateur fighter Mike Dragich, 33, took on the unusual opponent in a parking lot near a Jacksonville elementary school while people gathered to watch
In the video, Dragich, with the arresting rod still around the alligator’s neck, jumps onto the animal’s shoulders and sits on top of it to hold it down, accompanied by several Jacksonville firefighters
In the video, Dragich enters the school parking lot and tries to grab the alligator’s tail, which causes it to snap at him.
Dressed in a tank top, he They are then seen attempting to pin it down with a catching rod as they compete on the lawn in front of screaming onlookers.
The local veteran puts the alligator’s neck around with the pole.
The footage shows the animal turning in circles and desperately trying to shake off its opponent.
With the arresting rod still hanging around the alligator’s neck, Dragich jumps onto the animal’s shoulders and sits on it to hold it down, accompanied by several Jacksonville firefighters.
“A lot of fighters will understand that when you go to the cage you’re nervous, but once the cage door closes you have to be focused and honestly that’s what I remembered from that night,” Dragich said.
Florida has a statewide population of about 1.3 million alligators.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, local residents can report “nuisance” alligators longer than three feet that may pose a hazard to people, pets, or property so that a licensed trapper can come and remove them.
The removed reptiles are then euthanized so they don’t return to the sites where they were caught or cause disruption to the alligators’ existing social structures in other areas, the commission said.