Joe Lozito was just another guy heading to work on the New York City subways last Saturday morning when he was suddenly faced with a life-or-death situation.
Lozito was riding the uptown No. 3 train when knife-wielding Maksim Gelman boarded his car before approaching Lozito and uttering the words “You are going to die.” Gelman had already allegedly killed four people and injured five others, but Lozito’s ensuing actions helped make sure the death toll would rise no higher. Lozito used a takedown he says he learned while watching many hours of mixed martial arts to put Gelman on his back. Gelman stabbed Lozito multiple times, but Lozito was able to restrain him long enough for police to jump in and arrest the madman.
“I wouldn’t win any style points for taking him down, but it did the job,” Lozito told the New York Daily News.
Yet it was a takedown that would have made Georges St. Pierre proud.