Filed under: Featured , News (This story first appeared in Tuesday’s USA TODAY .) If you ask Mayura Dissanayake what he was thinking when he rushed from his post behind the cash register of a Houston gas station and straight into the teeth of a violent armed robbery in progress earlier this month, he’ll tell you it was simple. “I wasn’t thinking,” Dissanayake tells USA TODAY Sports. “I just saw these two guys beating my co-worker up. I just ran outside without thinking about it.” It helped that Dissanayake, 24, is an amateur MMA fighter with about six years of martial arts training. He began with Sanda, a form of Chinese kickboxing, which he learned growing up in Sri Lanka, and continued with the full compliment of mixed martial arts training that he took up shortly after moving to Houston two years ago. All in all, Dissanayake estimates he’s had five amateur bouts, which is why he wasn’t afraid to jump in and help when thieves attacked his co-worker at the Little Buddy Fuel Depot on July 10
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Stopping attempted robbery using MMA background came naturally to Mayura Dissanayake – MMA Junkie