‘Blood-soaked’ student wrestlers ambushed by grizzly bear survive injuries

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Two "blood-soaked" student wrestlers survived horror injuries after being ambushed by a savage grizzly bear on a hunting trip.

The college wrestlers were hunting with their teammates in Wyoming over the weekend when they were "surprise" attacked by a grizzly bear.

Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry had just spotted faeces from what they thought was a bear when the grizzly pounced.

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"Before you could even think or blink, there's a bear that came running out of the trees right in front of me," Lowry told Fox News.

"It was beating me up pretty good."

Lowry curled up into a ball during the attack and ended up with a broken arm, which needed six screws and bolts to repair, and a bite in his right thigh.

Cummings then yelled, which saw the bear charging at him, immediately knocking him to the ground.

He even grabbed the bear by its ear before he too was chased by the grizzly and injured before he could pull out his bear spray.

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"I could hear when his teeth would hit my skull, I could feel when he'd bite down on my bones and they'd kind of crunch," he told Cowboy State Daily.

"I called out to Lowry to make sure he was alright and I think the bear heard me," Cummings said.

"It kind of circled around and got me again."

Once the bear stopped attacking, Cummings laid still to avoid attracting further attention.

Cummings of Evanston and Lowry of Cedar City, Utah, were hunting and enjoying the outdoors together with teammates August Harrison and Orrin Jackson in the Shoshone National Forest, south of Cody

Lowry managed to call 911 and called their teammates Harrison and Jackson for help.

"He was just drenched in blood coming down the hill everywhere," Harrison said.

"Me and Jackson took turns carrying him down to the bottom where the field was."

Both men were transported to local hospitals, Cummings by helicopter, following the Saturday afternoon encounter which left them "blood-soaked," the Wyoming Game and Fish Department said in a written statement.

"I can't even express how grateful I am for him (Cummings)," Lowry said.

"I don't know what I'm going to pay him back, I don't. I owe him everything."

Cummings received 60 staples in his head and plastic surgery to address major lacerations to his face.

Landowners and hunters in the region have reported a recent rise in bear activity at low elevations, prompting wildlife officials to warn that visitors use caution.

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