UFC star Henry Cejudo violently stops hit-and-run suspect fleeing after crashing into his neighbor's home

Former UFC two-division champion Henry Cejudo had his evening disrupted arsenic helium helped a neighbour who had their location destroyed by a hit-and-run driver.

Cejudo was successful his Phoenix location with his producer, Dylan Rush, erstwhile a conveyance estimated to beryllium driving 80 to 100 mph crashed into 1 of his neighbor's homes.

When helium went extracurricular to analyse the matter, Cejudo saw the operator and chap passengers attempting to fly the scene. 

Cejudo and the neighbour some pursued the operator - with the erstwhile MMA combatant slamming the fishy to the ground.

'You tin spot wrong this room, if idiosyncratic was lasting successful there, they would beryllium dead. All these kids are fortunate to beryllium alive,' Cejudo said successful a connection shared with USA Today's MMA Junkie. 

'Once they got retired I told them, "Hey, you guys aren't going nowhere." The proprietor of this location tried to halt them and said you request to beryllium held accountable. 

'One of them ended up (punching) my neighbor, and that's erstwhile I had to measurement in.

'Pretty overmuch each my neighbours came successful to combat the situation. I ended up lifting him, dropping him, slapped him astir a small spot and conscionable beauteous overmuch controlled him.'

Eventually, constabulary arrived and arrested the suspects successful question.

Cejudo added that the vicinity was having a artifact enactment with children earlier successful the time connected the precise aforesaid thoroughfare wherever this wreck happened.

'If it was a mates hours earlier, idiosyncratic would beryllium earnestly injured,' Cejudo said.

Cejudo is simply a erstwhile Flyweight and Bantamweight champion successful the UFC - who has a nonrecreational grounds of 16 wins and 5 losses.

He's the 4th combatant successful UFC past to clasp titles successful 2 antithetic value classes. 

In addition, Cejudo represented the United States astatine the 2008 Olympic Games successful Beijing - wherever we won wrestling golden successful the 55 kg value class. At the time, helium was the youngest American Olympic wrestler to triumph gold.