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VIDEO – Urgently called by the town sheriff, the 34-year-old former soldier seized the animal under the impressed gaze of the residents.
It’s a scene worthy of a superhero movie. In Jacksonville, Florida, Mike Dragich, a former soldier who is now an MMA fighter, managed to subdue an alligator with his bare hands and without shoes, as shown in the video.
The animal, 2.40 meters long, wandered in the city center on Sunday April 21. The man was attending a hockey game with his family at the same time, a few kilometers away. As soon as he was informed, Mike Dragich, armed only with his courage, emerged to face the reptile. It was under the impressed looks of passers-by that the thirty-year-old grabbed the alligator, in complete relaxation.
But this is not the man’s first attempt. Known on Instagram under the nickname Bluecollar Brawler, the 34-year-old American is also a sworn alligator hunter in his free time. He is therefore often asked by the authorities to help them, to the delight of his 72,000 subscribers.