Just another day in Florida, a barefoot man wrestles a giant alligator on I-95 near Jacksonville, Florida.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office teamed up with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission , Florida Highway Patrol, and a local alligator wrangler after a large gator was spotted recently in the median of I-95/I-295 in Jacksonville’s Southside area.

“If you were cruising down I-95/I-295 on the Southside yesterday and thought you saw a barefoot man wrestling a giant alligator in the median — nope, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. That happened,” the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post.

Who is Mike Dragich, 'Blue Collar Brawler'?



The man who helped authorities wrangle the massive gator on I-95 is Mike Dragich, better known as the Blue Collar Brawler on social media, according to news4jax.com . With more than 364,000 followers on Instagram, Dragich has built a following by posting videos of himself hunting and wrestling alligators across Florida.

This isn’t his first brush with headlines, either. Last summer, he assisted the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department in safely removing another alligator.

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