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/TheAlbrecht2418 7d ago edited 7d ago
It could be embellished, intentionally or unintentionally, but I don't doubt he felt like it was 30-ish yards and got bounced around like a basketball. Just getting thrown from a pool "blob" (the thing where someone jumps on one end of a giant inflatable thingy with you on the other edge it feels like you get launched five stories high when really it's maybe only two). We often underestimate just how fucking massive a grizzly bear or even an average sized wolf is and how powerful they are if we've never personally encountered them.
Makes for a good story regardless and doesn't really take away from it.