If you get it in the eye or something i suppose anything is possible. The guy should probably consider himself to be like Lou Gehrig-
"the luckiest man...on the face of the earth."
Those are
seriously badass animals though. To give some perspective:
Based on the vids i've seen of this stuff online, cat's really seem to have no peers in straight up combat anywhere in nature.
I've even seen videos of big cats thrashing full grown crocodiles and gigantic 20+ foot anacondas
in the water. (this stuff is all on you tube, one can easily spend several hours watching wild animal combat). Besides man, cats seem to me to be the ultimate land based predators. (just my opinion). I think Tigers are probably natures ultimate land predator to date. (also just my opinion)