A Wyoming wrestler named Kendell Cummings bravely fought off a grizzly bear to save the life of his teammate, Brady Lowry, last weekend. The entire ordeal went without casualties, although the two boys were taken to a hospital, and Cummings had to undergo surgery.
During an antler hunting trip in Powell, Wyoming, a couple of teammates from the wrestling team encountered a grizzly bear and had to fight for their lives. As the bear attacked one Wyoming wrestler, the other one did not think twice about trying to fight it to save his friend.
As Cummings and Lowry were trying to get back to their car and other teammates, Lowry noticed bear tracks on the ground. Just as he did, a bear came rustling from the trees and he barely had time to yell “Bear, bear” before it attacked him.
The Grizzly tackled Lowry, rag-dolling him by his arm, breaking it in the process. His teammate Cummings tried yelling and waving to get the bear’s attention, but when that didn’t work, as Lowry puts it for CNN “he jumped down and grabbed the bear … and yanked it off me.”
The bear let go of Lowry, who ended up falling five feet off a small ledge and turned towards the brave Wyoming wrestler who decided to punch and grab the bear to save his friend.
“It knocked me onto the ground and then, with its head, pushed me on the ground all the way up against the trees and then kind of pinned me up there and it was attacking me,” Cummings recollects for ABC News. “I was putting my hands in its mouth and stuff, so it wouldn’t be chewing on my neck and everything.”.
The bear decided to leave the Wyoming wrestler alone for a while but quickly doubled back. “The bear circled back around, and it got me again, chewed on me, and that’s when it got my head and cheek,” Cummings told KSL-TV. “And then it went away again for whatever reason.”
After that, the grizzly left, allowing the boys enough time to get to tow other teammates, who helped them get to Billings Clinic hospital where they were treated for their injuries.
The area where they were hunting is crawling with grizzly bears, and there is no way to know which one attacked the wrestlers.
“For us to walk out of there alive, all four of us, it’s a miracle. It really is,” concludes Lowry.
