Mugger Takes On MMA Fighter, Ends Up In Hospital
It seems not a week goes by without a story coming out about someone getting their ass kicked while trying to do something illegal in the presence of a mixed martial artist. The most famous instance of this was when UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones chased down a mugger before a title fight last March. Sometimes it’s a fighter dressed as a super hero. Most of the time, it’s just someone that trains MMA who may have had an amateur fight.
There’s no way to tell what degree of a mixed martial artist 24-year-old Anthony Miranda encountered on Friday when he attempted to rob someone on the Southwest side of Chicago because police aren’t releasing his name. As you can see from the mugshot, it didn’t end well for Miranda.
At some point, Miranda’s attention was diverted and the victim was able to grab control of the gun and the two wrestled.
During the fight, Miranda accidentally discharged his gun, shooting himself in the ankle, Mirabelli said.
The victim, who told police he’s a martial arts expert and ultimate fighting champion was able to pin Miranda down until police arrived. Police arrived to find Miranda with a face full of cuts and two black eyes. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital for treatment, police said.
At some point, these stories won’t have such a happy ending. Some wannabe weekend warrior is going to get hurt. Law of averages. For now though, things are working out for the civilians.
[Chicago Sun-Times, Photo: Anthony Miranda / photo from Cook County Sheriff's office]
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December 5th, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Street justice baby!
December 5th, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Southwest side of Chicago
I enjoyed the White Sox joke in the Shameless epidsode I watched a few weeks ago.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:48 PM
Southwest side of Chicago
I enjoyed the White Sox joke in the Shameless epidsode I watched a few weeks ago.
/moderated
December 5th, 2011 at 2:49 PM
When I got mugged, I was TOTALLY about to unleash a wicked crane kick on homie – and then he shot me in each leg. He won that round, but when he eventually looked inside that wallet and saw only one Abraham Lincoln looking back at him, I won the war.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:50 PM
lol.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
Good, I love stories like this. You never know who you are messing with.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:52 PM
sanders, did he shoot without cause? i mean did you resist or was he just a prick?
December 5th, 2011 at 2:53 PM
I know violence is the first refuge of the incompetent (thanks, X-Men!), but I could read one of these every week.
Back to reality, I agree with bsanders. When the muggers decide to shoot early in the confrontation, MMA technique can’t stop a bullet very well.
“For now though, things are working out for the” threatened? The good? The image of MMA?
/I wanna help
December 5th, 2011 at 2:53 PM
the mugger Plaxico’d
December 5th, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Don’t leave us hanging like this!
December 5th, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Execution style. They tell you to turn around and then they fire. I’m assuming he shot me and not the two people with me because one was Arab and the other was a ginger. He undoubtedly feared reprisal by the Taliban and IRA.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:56 PM
Sanders, you have easily had one of the most interesting lives of any commenter here.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:56 PM
I’m assuming he shot me and not the two people with me because one was Arab and the other was a ginger.
Where did this happen?
December 5th, 2011 at 2:57 PM
humblebrag
December 5th, 2011 at 2:57 PM
you sure it wasn’t because their gear wasn’t weak and their hair wasn’t played out?
/tbl’d
December 5th, 2011 at 2:58 PM
pop.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:58 PM
you sure it wasn’t because their gear wasn’t weak and their hair wasn’t played out?
No, it was because their game was “weak”
December 5th, 2011 at 3:02 PM
St. Louis. It was 3 a.m., the streets were alive with menace and dread. A man with a “.22, black, no chrome” pointed a gun in my face and asked for my wallet. He had malice in his heart, and he soon had my money in his hoodie. He asked that we turn around and face the wall. We complied. He hopped into the passenger side of a shoddy, early-90′s F150 and we waited for the sound of the truck’s engine to fade away. As it did, eight or nine shots rang out in the night air. I felt something hot and hard slam against my left shoulder, then the back of my left knee, and then quickly my right calf. I said aloud, “Ow.” And then again, “Ow.” And then I stumbled for a few steps before it dawned on me that I’d been shot in both legs and was bleeding profusely. I then laid down on the sidewalk and asked if anyone had a cigarette.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:03 PM
well?
December 5th, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Where did this happen?
St. Louis.
Color me shocked. Damn, quite the tale though.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:05 PM
I’ve seen Steven Segal movies and I’m pretty sure MMA tactics beat guns every time. Not most times – EVERY TIME.
/superior state of mind
December 5th, 2011 at 3:05 PM
No. I asked the EMT’s when they arrived, and they said they also had no tobacco products. And then they cut my pants off.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:06 PM
What brand of cigarette? What if they only had menthols?
December 5th, 2011 at 3:07 PM
St. Louis. It was 3 a.m., the streets were alive with menace and dread. A man with a “.22, black, no chrome” pointed a gun in my face and asked for my wallet. He had malice in his heart, and he soon had my money in his hoodie. He asked that we turn around and face the wall. We complied. He hopped into the passenger side of a shoddy, early-90′s F150 and we waited for the sound of the truck’s engine to fade away. As it did, eight or nine shots rang out in the night air. I felt something hot and hard slam against my left shoulder, then the back of my left knee, and then quickly my right calf. I said aloud, “Ow.” And then again, “Ow.” And then I stumbled for a few steps before it dawned on me that I’d been shot in both legs and was bleeding profusely. I then laid down on the sidewalk and asked if anyone had a cigarette.
Comment of the year.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:07 PM
go on…
can we make storytime a regular occurence with bsanders? best cliffhangers.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:08 PM
assholes.
you think i care about getting cancer when i dunno if im even going to live to see tomorrow? NO. relaxing tobacco, posthaste, medisquire.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:10 PM
You know, you’d think you’d be most concerned about living or dying, but really, when you’re lying there and a female EMT is treating your wounds after she’s just cut your clothes off you’re mostly thinking, “Boy, I bet my penis looks really tiny right now.”
December 5th, 2011 at 3:12 PM
lol
December 5th, 2011 at 3:13 PM
wow…”lol” gets moderated? i know that’s controversial and everything but…
December 5th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
bsanders, manoman that’s wild. If I’d been shot once, I’da been weeping like a small girl.
Glad you survived it. Sorry you had to go thru it.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Sanders and Dirt are easily the best storytellers here.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Sanders and Dirt are easily the best storytellers here.
WHAT!!!??!
December 5th, 2011 at 3:27 PM
WHAT!!!??!
I haven’t a clue who you are, but yes, in my experience they are.
December 5th, 2011 at 3:27 PM
Awesome.
December 5th, 2011 at 4:01 PM
When I got mugged, I was TOTALLY about to unleash a wicked crane kick on homie – and then he shot me in each leg
Your real name wouldn’t happen to be Ray Davies, would it?
/ French Quarter mugger’d
December 5th, 2011 at 4:34 PM
j peterman wants to buy your stories.
December 6th, 2011 at 8:20 PM
“At some point, these stories won’t have such a happy ending.”
Hmmm…oh…you mean just hand over your wallet and money? The cowards way out? “It’s just money and a wallet…not worth a life”…the siren song of the effeminate left. That “born to surrender” attitude disgusts me…Sorry author…I’ll take my chances and FIGHT! What I have is MINE! *I* earned it…not the punk! It is worth as much to me as my arm, or leg, or eyes…would you just hand THOSE over to some punk? I have news for your type: MY STUFF is worth more to me then the PUNKS LIFE! And I would gladly KILL a punk to protect it. I don’t mean to sound like some keyboard toughguy…and I DO mean it. I’m sick of this “kid gloves on” attitude toward robbers and thugs and scum…The punks life means absolutely NOTHING to me or the folks I run with…once he makes that decision to try and forcibly take whats mine, as far as I am concerned he has given up all of his rights to “fair treatment” and gets what he gets…a beatdown or death. And yes: I would kill him over the 25 dollars in my wallet. The punk in the article got off easy…