63 yr old holds off robber with rear naked choke hold!

**MAGIC HATE BALL** · Posted On: 8/15/2011 11:56am

Sat Aug 13 09:03pm EDT
63-year-old holds off robber with rear naked choke

By Maggie Hendricks

A robber messed with the wrong man in Florida on Thursday night. 63-year-old, 5-foot-7 Fred Kemp used a foot sweep and a rear naked choke to disarm a robber who pointed a gun at Kemp and his wife.
The couple was getting into their car in Boynton Beach when a man came out of the darkness and approached them with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Wanting to keep his wife safe, Kemp returned to the skills thathe learned as a wrestler for Hofstra University.

"He started to hit me, so I reacted from there," a bruised but smiling Kemp said Friday. "I got him out into the street and held his arm. I foot-sweeped him down and I was trying to get a hold of the gun. He banged me up a little bit but my main concern was the gun."

Kemp's quick thinking led him to apply a rear-naked choke, then when the robber was weakened, he took the gun from him. The police report mentioned that Kemp held the robber down until the police arrived.

"He asked me to let him go when I had him down," Kemp said. "I said, 'No, I'm not going to do that.'"

Fighters who started as wrestlers often go back to rely on their wrestling skills when they get in trouble in a fight. Clearly, that instinct sticks with them, because Kemp was smart enough to rely on his sport when danger found him. Joe DeMeo, a friend of Kemp's through wrestling, was not surprised to hear that Kemp took out the criminal.

"Fred Kemp's the last guy I would rob," DeMeo said. "He'll go down fighting. … He does have a lot of physical ability. He's a no-nonsense, get-the-job-done kind of guy."

Remember that the next time you approach a diminutive 63-year-old. It's probably not a good idea to mess with him.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cag...urn=mma-wp5794

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**bobyclumsyninja** · Posted On: 8/16/2011 1:04am

nice. Go Fred Kemp, with your badass self.

**lklawson** · Posted On: 8/16/2011 8:14am

I'm love'n it. :)

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

**JSK_83** · Posted On: 8/16/2011 11:04am

Wow. So much for the "which martial art is best for street defense" argument.

**itwasntme** · Posted On: 2/19/2012 5:58pm

Sounds more like bad defense on the robbers part, if he'd just shot the old man in the head with the pellet gun I'm sure he'd let go lol. But good job Kemp!

**RamboJesus** · Posted On: 3/14/2012 9:32am

Originally Posted by jwilde88

Sounds more like bad defense on the robbers part, if he'd just shot the old man in the head with the pellet gun I'm sure he'd let go lol. But good job Kemp!

Hardly, I'm assuming that Fred was avoiding the line of fire because he thought it was a real gun...

**itwasntme** · Posted On: 3/14/2012 8:20pm

Originally Posted by RamboJesus

Hardly, I'm assuming that Fred was avoiding the line of fire because he thought it was a real gun...

Very possible as well

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**Mister** · Posted On: 4/13/2012 7:47am

Originally Posted by jwilde88

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**itwasntme** · Posted On: 4/13/2012 11:20am

Tapatalk is the app I use. I think I could completely delete, but I haven't cared enough to try. I know it can be customized though.

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