Mugger a real mug

UFC star Polyana Viana, right, used her fighting skills to see off a would-be mugger in Rio de Janeiro. Viana left her attacker a bloodied mess after he tried to steal her mobile phone, claiming he had a gun. The 26-year-old Brazilian was waiting for an Uber ride outside her apartment complex last weekend when the man sat next to her and asked her the time. She replied but saw that he wasn’t going to leave. She became concerned and went to put her mobile phone away and he made his move. ‘‘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 realised it was too soft,’’ she told MMA Junkie. ‘‘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. 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’.’’ Viana, nicknamed ‘‘The Iron Lady’’, has won 10 of her 12 fights in the UFC strawweight division. She said she was ‘‘fine’’ after the attack and that the man quickly realised he had picked the wrong person to try to rob.