WBZ’s Steve Burton got to try his hand at alligator wrestling while taping a segment for Sunday’s edition of Sports Final.
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Burton takes the creature off Michael Ralbovsky calmly, as the herpetologist explains that he will stand back as he’s holding a crocodile.
“Hold it tight, hold it tight”, Ralbovsky told Burton repeatedly.
The station says the alligator Burton was holding got spooked by a nearby crocodile and tried to skeedaddle.
Frankly, we wouldn’t want a total stranger to hold us up in the air for 5 or 10 minutes either.
Eventually Ralbovsky and an assistant were able to get the gator away from Burton and calm both the gator and the anchor down.
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“That thing was so strong”, Burton said later. “I wasn’t fine!” Burton joked about his reptile wrangling experience.
