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MMA Fighter Wrestles Massive Alligator Near Florida Elementary School

  • A Florida veteran and MMA fighter grabbed a 10-foot alligator outside a Jacksonville elementary school in front of nearly 200 spectators.
  • Mike Dragich, a licensed gator trapper, wrestled the alligator after it refused to leave the parking lot.
  • Dragich grabbed the alligator by the tail and used a catch pole to restrain it while firefighters helped hold it down.
  • There are an estimated 1.3 million alligators in Florida, and residents can report "nuisance" gators over four feet long to have them removed.
  • Dragich compared the experience to feeling like Batman and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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