NEWSLINK: Fight legend nearly comes toe to toe with big cat in backyard

Retired mixed martial artist and Thousand Oaks resident Bas Rutten had a close call with a mountain lion recently.
Rutten lives in the Westlake Hills neighborhood. His home’s security cameras recorded the big cat coming into his yard around 12:30 a.m. Sept. 11.


Thirty minutes before it arrived, the homeowner had been meditating in the exact spot where the animal jumped over the wall and landed.


“If it had been a half an hour earlier—I meditate in the dark, there’s no light on. He would have been right next to me,” said Rutten, who owns Bas Rutten’s Elite MMA gym in Westlake.

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