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Ro Malabanan, 44, was walking in SoHo last week when he saw Samuel Frazier, 28, punch a 50-year-old man and 17-year-old boy Others then told Malabanan that he'd punched 'six people' in nearby streets Malabanan is an MMA coach and fighter - he jumped on Frazier's back and brought him to the ground until police arrived Frazier was charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault but is already free 'Here, you can shoot someone and go free, so I guarantee you this guy is walking the streets right now,' an NYPD source told DailyMail.com

A Filipino American mixed martial artist reportedly stopped an attacker after witnessing him hit another man in an unprovoked attack in New York City. Ro Malabanan, a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, was heading to work when saw a homeless man, later identified as 28-year-old Samuel Frazier, sucker-punch a construction worker in SoHo on July 27, according to reports. Witnesses informed Malabanan that Frazier had also attacked other men before the construction worker, prompting the mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter to chase after the man. “My jiu-jitsu instincts just kicked in. I jumped on his back,” Malabanan said in a...