This might be the craziest story of the day.
A college wrestler, Kendall Cummings, from Wyoming, is a hero, and it’s because he helped save his friend, Brady Lowry, from a bear attack over the weekend.
According to ESPN, the two, who wrestles at Northwest College in Cody, Wyoming, were at Yellowstone National Park when a bear came up on them and attacked Lowry. That’s when Cummings turned into Superman and helped fight off the bear.
“The bear came running out of the trees. I didn’t even see it until it was right in front of me, but I heard the crashing,” Lowry told ABC News in an interview that aired Wednesday on “Good Morning America.” “The only thing I could yell is: ‘Bear! Bear!’ I just knew I had to protect my head and just kind of fight for life, you know — it’s life or death.”
“I didn’t want to lose my friend. It was bad,” Cummings told the Deseret News. “There was a big ol’ bear on top of him. I could have run and potentially lost a friend or get him off and save him.”
“It knocked me onto the ground and then, with its head, pushed me on the ground all the way up against the trees and then kind of pinned me up there and it was attacking me,” Cummings told ABC News. “I was putting my hands in its mouth and stuff, so it wouldn’t be chewing on my neck and everything.”
I heard the bear kind of grunting behind me, and I heard it walking,” Cummings said. “Then I saw it again, and it came and attacked me again.”
Lowry was able to get away with only a broken arm and puncture wound and Cummings will probably be the best man at Lowry’s wedding.
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