A Florida man who flew into a violent rage in a Miami parking lot picked the wrong guy to pull a knife on.
Javier Baez, who had a brief pro career in the MMA with a 5-2-1 record and retired in 2018, was still more than a match for an attacker who came at him with a 14-inch knife last week in an apartment parking lot at 4 a.m.
Video from a surveillance camera showed Baez parrying the attack by lifting the man and slamming him to the pavement in a chokehold.
Baez, who was out late on Halloween night, said his training just kicked in.
Police identified the attacker as 50-year-old Omar Morrero. The arrest report said that he saw Baez in his vehicle and began hitting the car window with the knife before he opened the driver’s side door and tried to cut Baez.
Marrero was charged with one count each of burglary, assault or battery, and aggravated battery.
Baez said he didn’t know the attacker but had seen him around the neighborhood.