UFC welterweight Kevin Holland has added yet another superheroic deed to his resume. After apprehending a gunman and a carjacker in separate incidents, Holland appeared on The Fighter vs The Writer to describe a recent incident in which he rescued a driver from an overturned tractor-trailer.
“There’s a guy who flipped an 18-wheeler, I got out and I helped that guy. Other than that, nothing else has happened.”
Kevin Holland Rescues Driver From Overturned Tractor Trailer: “the truck’s going to blow up!”
I’m driving the Regal, the old school, kind of like my Batmobile,” Holland explained. “Everyone knows Batman is my favorite character, that’s probably why I intervene in all of these things. I’m driving down the road, enjoying some good old 80s and 90s music, just cruising. It’s fast but it’s cruising, and then I look over to the right hand side and this guy looked like he was trying to get on the freeway pretty quick.
I looked back straight. I looked back to the right hand side and he’s sliding sideways. I’m like gosh. I pull the Regal over, glad I put the new brakes on there. Hopped out, ran over there, jumped on top, ripped the door open, got the guy out.
I get the guy out, there’s fluids flowing out of the car, I get the guy out of the truck and I’m scared. Every other time things have happened, I’ve been calm, cool and collected. This time, I’m scared. I’m like the truck’s going to blow up. The guy gets back in his truck! He’s like ‘I need my phone.’ I’m like bro, I got a second phone in the car, you don’t need your phone. We’ve got to go. He’s like ‘I’ve got to go get my s***!’
Holland described how growing up idolizing superheroes led him to his interventionist mentality, and even proposed a new nickname for himself when out and about patrolling the streets.
“When I was young, I wanted to be a superhero so you’ve got to be careful what you ask for. You ask for certain things and they start to happen and you wonder why these things are happening — you’ve got to be careful what you ask for.”
What I’ve learned talking to a good friend of mine, she actually has a fight coming up, she said ‘my boy, when you do ratchet hood stuff, you take your glasses off.
When you do good stuff, you keep your glasses on. You’re reverse Clark Kent.’ I like that a lot so I might start calling myself Clint Kark.” What do you think of Kevin Holland’s heroics? Let us know in the comments.
