Exclusive | Amazing security guard fights off masked punks at lux SoHo shop in wild video: You step up, or you step down

A superhero security guard fought off a pair of masked punks trying to rob a hip SoHo boutique Monday — with the wild scuffle caught on dramatic surveillance video.Tyrell Gibbs, 34, told The Post he was working the door at the trendy luxury resale shop Rebelonging for fewer than than two weeks when the brazen crime unfolded — and led him to tap into his boyhood experience as a tight end and receiver on the football field to shut down the illegal rush.“You meet them at the line of scrimmage,” said Gibbs, who has an eight-year resume in security and hotel service — and the physique and face to land him modeling jobs, too.“That’s what we were doing — I felt like if I met them at that point and addressed them there, that he would go away versus me allowing them to come to me,” Gibbs said of the battle at the Manhattan store’s entrance.“I just know that in sports, either you step up, or you step down.“My thing was to react,” said Gibbs, who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Harlem playing for the Harlem Knights youth football league.“It wasn’t to even fight,” said the guard — whose employer hailed him as “amazing.”“I didn’t want to harm them, and I didn’t want to harm anybody else, but keeping every body safe, just creating a boundary between myself, the door and the open space of the door.”The violent encounter unfolded shortly before 3 p.m.at the West Broadway shop, when a girl wearing a head scarf and dark sunglasses entered the store, and the guard held the front door for her, according to footage posted by the boutique on Instagram.Then all hell broke loose.Two masked punks tried to bum-rush the door, but Gibbs would have no part of it — with footage showing him rebuffing them like an NFL lineman, shoving them away till they gave up and high-tailed it down the street.Gibbs noted that in middle school, he suited up with the Knights and later played basketball — which he said “absolutely” helped prepare him for ...