Unlike American pretty boys Ryan Seacrest and Anderson Cooper and their fancy stages, the mustachioed newsman was down on the street among the revelers, which became a problem as the crowd began encroaching on his live shot with all their hooting and hollering.

Finally, when one particularly obnoxious reveler got a little to close to Sahi, the reporter’s instincts took over and he turned and cold-cocked the space invader with a viscous microphone punch to the snout.

Check out 2012′s first hero in action.