Maybe the fan didn’t actually think the MMA guy would hit him?
He was terribly mistaken.
MMA fighter Josh Neer — who’s competed for UFC and Bellator — obliterated a local heckler at an Iowa gym … dishing out ferocious head strikes … and recorded the whole thing on video.
According to the 31-year-old fighter … a heckler named Patrick Martin had been “talking s**t about MMA fighters for a month” via text messages … so Neer called him out on it.
“I usually ignore him … but this time I said, ‘If you really want to fight come to the gym Monday at 5:30.'”
Among the harassing texts … Martin wrote, “Lol you are a f**king joke! You will respect me though! And I hope we can be friends afterwards!”
I can’t confirm or deny if they were friends afterwards.