Mugger ends up in hospital after trying to rob UFC fighter
By Jung Min-hoUFC president Dana White shared a picture of the aftermath of the attempted robbery of Polyana. InstagramA female UFC fighter has left a mugger bruised, bloodied and “scared” after he tried to rob her in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday (local time).Polyana Viana, 26, said she was waiting for an Uber driver in front of her apartment in Jacarepagua, when a man approached her with a “gun.”“He said, ‘Give me the phone. Don’t try to react, because I’m armed.’ Then he put his hand over (a gun), but I realized it was too soft,” Viana was quoted as saying by MMAJunkie.“He was really close to me. So I thought, ‘If it’s a gun, he won’t have time to draw it.’ So I stood up. I threw two punches and a kick. He fell, then I caught him in a rear-naked choke.”Then she told him, “Now we’ll wait for the police.”Viana was right about the gun. She later found out that it was a piece of cardboard shaped like a handgun.After taking control of the situation, she asked other people to c
