UFC star Polyana Viana left a man with horrific facial injuries after he tried to rob her with a cardboard gun.
The cowering thief even begged her to call the cops in fear of another beating after targeting the wrong person. Viana was waiting for her Uber in Rio de Janeiro when the misguided criminal demanded she hand over her phone.
After the would-be robber claimed he had a gun, Viana said she punched and kicked him before locking him in a rear-naked choke.
Viana, 26, kept the man in a submission while she waited for police to arrive.
“When he saw I saw him, he sat next to me,” she told MMA Junkie. “He asked me the time, I said it, and I saw he wasn’t going to leave. So I already moved to put my cellphone in my waist. And then he said, ‘Give me the phone. Don’t try to react, because I’m armed.’
“Then he put his hand over [a gun], but I realized it was too soft.
”The “gun” turned out to be a cardboard cut-out.“He was really close to me. So I thought, ‘If it’s a gun, he won’t have time to draw it.’ So I stood up, I threw two punches and a kick,” Viana said. “He fell, then I caught him in a rear-naked choke. Then I sat him down in the same place we were before and said, ‘Now we’ll wait for the police.’”