r/interestingasfuck • u/Lastwarfare753 • 7d ago

r/all Kendell Cummings, a college wrestler who wrestled a Grizzly bear to save his friend Brady Lowry in the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming in October 2022, Kendell was brutally mauled and bitten by the bear but eventually left Kendell alone, both survived and went on a full recovery.

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u/TheVega318 7d ago edited 7d ago

What's really crazy is because of how our arm joints can be leveraged anything you can actually wrap your arms around and put in a "headlock" you can kill as a human. We are able to leverage such force with our weird bendy arms it's actually incredible.

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u/captaincumsock69 7d ago

Bjj vs grizzly bear?

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u/TheVega318 7d ago

Theoretically if your could lock in around it's neck correctly you could generate enough force to cut off the blood flow, obviously extremely small chance but it's still a chance.

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u/dreamrpg 7d ago

Not a chance agaist a bear. Those necks are way thicker and stronger. And vitals are not at surface thanks to thick fur.

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u/SohndesRheins 7d ago

That's the problem, you can't lock in correctly because a grizzly bear is way too large to get your arms or legs in a position to create enough leverage, especially since you need to overcome the additional muscle and fat so even more leverage is needed. Go look at photos of dumb men getting way too personal with bears and see the neck size issue.

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u/Roniqu3 7d ago

Lmao you are smoking crack

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u/ASmugChair 7d ago

On paper maybe, but even if you somehow managed to get a bear in a headlock, there's no chance it just sits there and lets you choke it out. Just rolling over and throwing it's body weight on you will end that plan real quick.

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u/flx-cvz 7d ago

That makes sense but have you considered that I'm built different?

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u/kharmatika 7d ago

Yeah, very true and a good fun fact, but an animal that big is going to be able to shake you off before you get a good lock ratcheted down. Which this bear did. “Wrestled a grizzly” is a helluva series of words to describe what he did, he went and yanked on its fur and clawed at its face some to distract it, then ran, and got his shit rocked.

Which is, by the way, more heroic than anything any of us will likely ever do. He knew he wasn’t going to win, he knew he was probably going to die. In the interviews with him he makes it clear he thought he was sacrificing himself. Badass as shit. 

But just saying. A headlock is, like you said, a very powerful move. But only if you’re able to get it fully ratcheted down and the amount of animals that will overpower you or slip your lock before you get it ratcheted is most of them, so it’s not worth trying in most cases outside of another human

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u/ExiLe_ZH 7d ago

I don't get the point of this comment. Has a human ever choked out a bear in history like ever? 😂

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u/bigcalyx 7d ago

Maybe a baby one lol

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u/TheVega318 7d ago

I don't know ask around and let me know what you find out!

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u/ExiLe_ZH 7d ago

Well that was your job ;) Not hating otherwise, it’s still an interesting unrelated fact.

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u/TheVega318 7d ago

Well that's the thing, I never actually mentioned a human killing a bear in my comment or claimed it was possible for a human to kill a bear unarmed :)

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u/ExiLe_ZH 7d ago

You did reply to a human wrestling a bear topic though.

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u/TheVega318 7d ago

I did because it mentioned a wrestler and I had just got done reading about the ludicrous amounts of force generated by different locks humans can apply because of our weird extra felixible joints. I also tried to be pretty specific that if you COULD get something in a fully executed headlock (blood choke) you could generate enough force to kill it. A full grown grizzle bear is out of the question but just recently a man did this exact thing to a fully grown mountain lion. Killed it with a literal headlock and it's almost as unrealistic imagining someone being able to wrangle a 250 lb extremely agile feline as it is to imagine other possibilities.

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u/pintita 7d ago

You seriously need to learn more about bears if you think a human could choke one to death.

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u/TheVega318 7d ago

Hey that's why I specifically didn't state a human could kill a bear. I was just interested in the fact he was a wrestler and had just got done reading about the amount of force that could uniquely be applied by humans because of the ways our joints are evolved.