Anthony Smith Details Subduing Intruder in Harrowing Home Invasion
As a veteran of 47 professional mixed martial arts bouts, Anthony Smith has seen himself in plenty of stressful situations in the cage. Still, nothing could prepare the UFC title contender for what he had to experience in his home early Sunday morning.
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"No normal human is able to fight like that," Smith said. "I'm by no means the baddest dude on the planet. But he's a regular Joe and I had a hard time dealing with him. And he took everything that I gave him -- every punch, every knee, every elbow. He took every single one of them and kept fighting me.”
The man, later identified by police as Luke Haberman, was arrested
and charged with first-degree criminal trespassing. Haberman did
not steal anything, Smith said, but the fighter, who lives with his
wife, mother-in-law and three daughters, was concerned for his
family’s safety. Smith initially heard the man “screaming at the
top of his lungs,” and Haberman came toward him when he found the
intruder in his computer room.
"I didn't know what he had," Smith said. "Typically people don't break into your house in the middle of the night for any good reasons. I'm expecting that I'm gonna hear a gunshot or he's gonna stab me. Like he's got something. I figure I've got about two minutes before whatever he's got takes me out.”
Smith added that neighbors had video of Haberman attempting to enter their homes, as well. The incident left the veteran fighter a little bit shaken.
"You always just think you're such a bad ass," Smith said. "I just don't feel like one. I feel ... insufficient a little bit. I didn't know it was possible to be that terrified.”
Smith is scheduled to face Glover Teixeira in the UFC Fight Night 173 headliner on April 25. That fight is likely to be moved from Lincoln, Neb., to an undisclosed location in the United States.
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