Biography mma fighter stops robbery houston

A Texas gas station clerk who moonlights as an MMA fighter managed to save a co-worker from an attempted robbery earlier this month, earning praise from UFC president Dana White in the process.

Mayura Dissanayake, a semi-pro competitor, was working behind the counter at a Fuel Depot on July 10 when he noticed a pair of men attack a co-worker who had just returned from the bank, Houston news station KPRC reports.

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Surveillance captured footage of Dissanayake as he jumped to his co-worker’s defense, using his skills as a martial artist to prevent the robbery.

“The first guy I saw, I just kicked him in the face,” Dissanayake told KPRC.

“Then I punched the other guy.”

Dissanayake’s attack on one of the robbers was so ferocious that his accomplices fled the scene rather than wait for him to escape. “I just kicked him until he lays down on t