UFC Fighter Says He Stopped Moving Car With His Hand, Left ‘Handprint On The Hood’

UFC Vegas 32 fighter Andre Ewell should audition for the next Superman flick after this alleged feat of strength.

Some fighters hit like a truck, but UFC Vegas 32’s Andre Ewell can stop a moving car with one hand.

Ewell (17-7) tells MMAMania.com about his Superman moment ahead of his high with Julio Arce (16-4) at UFC Vegas 32, taking place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, NV on Sat., July 24 on ESPN+. The story starts, according to Ewell, on a sidewalk in Sacramento after grabbing a bite at Denny’s with his cousin, and his friend.

“We’re walking on the sidewalk,” Ewell begins. “I see a car ready to ram it through. Not ready, it’s going. For some odd reason, it didn’t see us. I moved [my friend] out of the way, stopped the car with my left hand. Planted it. You literally see my handprint on the hood of the car. I left a dent on the situation. For a moment, I thought I stopped the car. Right now, everyone is like, ‘Oh s—t, look! Dre stopped the car. Dre stopped the car.’ I said, ‘Oh, I stopped the car!’ We look up and she’s scared, she almost really got hit by this car. We look up at the driver, an old man about 75-years-old with leather gloves… My arm was pretty jacked for a good two or three weeks on some awkwardness. But the boy stopped the car and these are full facts.“

Ewell and his opponent Arce are both unranked; however, Ewell expects the winner of Saturday’s fight to knock on the door of the featherweight elite.

“I was getting ready to fight a ranked opponent twice. Me and Cody Stamann were supposed to fight,” Ewell says. “I didn’t get clear for my ulna bone that I broke against [Jonathan] Martinez. If they had pushed it back one more week, I would have gotten cleared.

“When I fought [Marlon Vera] ‘Chito’, he got ranked after fighting me,” Ewell continues. “He [Arce] fought Hakeem [Dawodu] and he beat Dan [Ige]… It comes down to me and him are at that edge. We have to make that power move to get us forward. I believe this fight will be the one to push me over or get me a ranked opponent.”

UFC Vegas 32 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, NV on Sat., July 24. The ESPN+ card is headlined by Cory Sandhagen vs. T.J. Dillashaw in a fight that will likely determine the next contender for the UFC Bantamweight title after Aljamain Sterling vs. Petr Yan 2.

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