What began as a typical evening within the neighborhood changed into a dramatic second for former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo on Friday.
As Cejudo was exterior his Phoenix dwelling together with his producer, Dylan Rush, he mentioned a automobile touring at a pace he estimated to be 80-100 mph plowed into considered one of his neighbors’ home.
The motive force, Cejudo mentioned, tried to flea the scene, and when different passengers tried to observe, Cejudo mentioned he and the house’s proprietor took steps to detain them, and that he grounded and restrained one of many alleged suspects till police arrived.
“You’ll be able to see inside this room, if somebody was standing in there, they’d be lifeless. All these children are fortunate to be alive,” Cejudo mentioned in a press release shared with MMA Junkie. “As soon as they obtained out I informed them, ‘Hey, you guys aren’t going nowhere.’ The proprietor of this home tried to cease them and mentioned it’s essential be held accountable. Certainly one of them ended up (punching) my neighbor, and that’s after I needed to step in.
“Just about all my neighbours got here in to struggle the scenario. I ended up lifting him, dropping him, slapped him round just a little bit and simply just about managed him.”
Cejudo mentioned it was “devastating” to see the harm to his buddy’s dwelling and mentioned a block celebration occurred with youngsters earlier within the day on the identical road on which the accident befell.
“If it was a pair hours earlier, somebody could be critically injured,” Cejudo mentioned.
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