THIS is the dramatic moment a burglar targeted a neighbour before heading to UFC fighter Anthony Smith's house.
The MMA star sensationally revealed he was prepared to die by fighting off an intruder, later identified as Luke Habermann, to protect his family from a late night robbery.
Smith, who lives with his wife, three daughters and mother-in-law in Nebraska, USA, revealed he woke up to a “man’s voice screaming at the top of his lungs.”
The number three light-heavyweight then fought off the intruder which ended with him holding a kitchen knife to the man before police arrived.
He told ESPN: "No normal human is able to fight like that. 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.
“I’m not lying when I said it was one of the toughest fights I’ve had in my whole life.
“I went into that fight ready to die. Nobody smart breaks into a house in the middle of the night unarmed… when they break in at night, it’s to hurt people.
If I ended up dying with a gunshot wound at least he'd be hurt enough so they could deal with it.
“You always just think you’re such a badass. I just don’t feel like one. I feel… insufficient a little bit. I didn’t know it was possible to be that terrified.”
And his statement has been backed up by an alarming video posted to social media showing Habermann approaching a door and attempting to enter a neighbour's property before he starts screaming at the top of his lungs.
When he presumably sees the homeowner, the man repeatedly shouts: "Get out now!"
In an interview with Nebraskas's 3 News Now, Smith added how he tried to do as much damage as possible to the man.
He added: "Typically when someone breaks into your home in the day it's because you're not home.
"When it's at night it's because people want to do something to you, they have something whether it's a gun, a weapon or a knife so I'm expecting he has something and I don't.
"So I just needed to get to him and do as much damage as I could before I would succumb to what he had, that was my plan.
"I was going to do what I could and hopefully my family could get out. If I ended up dying with a gunshot wound or whatever at least he'd be hurt enough so they could deal with it."
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