UFC's Anthony Smith Was 'Ready to Die' in Vicious Fight With Home Invader in Sunday Night Break-in

Anthony Smith has had some serious fights under his belt as UFC light heavyweight contender. He's beaten former champions Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Rashad Evans. One year ago, he went the distance with the great Jon Jones. But if you ask him, the fight he had in the early hours of Sunday morning was one of the absolute nastiest of his career.

In the middle of the night, Smith found himself engaged in a brutal scrap with Luke Haberman, who had trespassed into his Nebraska home. It was all he could do to subdue the stranger while waiting for law enforcement to arrive.

"I'm not lying when I said it was one of the toughest fights I've had in my whole life," Smith told ESPN's Ariel Helwani. "I went into that fight ready to die."

The good news? Smith and his family are fine. Nothing in the house was stolen; in fact, Smith says that it didn't appear that Haberman was attempting to rob the place. It wasn't apparent why he entered the home at all.

But despite a clear size advantage, Smith, who also works as a broadcaster for some UFC events, was given a whole lot to handle.

"No normal human is able to fight like that. I'm by no means the baddest dude on the planet, but he's a regular Joe and I had a hard time dealing with him," Smith told Helwani. "And he took everything that I gave him, every punch, every knee, every elbow. He took every single one of them and kept fighting me."

That's terrifying. In fact, Smith says his mother-in-law handed him a kitchen knife to brandish at Haberman only to see the guy keep on fighting.

Fortunately, Smith did subdue the invader, who bizarrely apologized to him as deputies from the Douglas County Sheriffs office led him away. Haberman has been charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing, and is surely never going to forget the time he walked into the home of a 205-pound professional fighter.