UFC-veteranen Matt Brown har blivit anklagad för att ha misshandlat sin tidigare tränare. En polisutredning ska redan vara på gång och hans förre tränare har redan uttalat sig om händelsen.
Enligt Matt Brown’s förra BJJ-tränare Rodrigo Botti ska det uppstått ett hett argument mellan de två vilket tillslut ledde fram till ett slagsmål. Enligt polisrapporten ska händelsen ägt rum den 3:e februari i Ohio Combat Club där både Botti och Brown är delägare. Brown var däremot inte nämnd i polisrapporten men en utredning är i full effekt i dagsläget.
Den 11:e februari la Botti upp ett Facebook inlägg där han förklarar situationen där han nämner att en ”UFC fighter” utfört misshandeln med att slå honom med flera slag i ansiktet. Han blev tvungen att operera sig med 16 interna stygn runt hans vänstra öga.
Rodrigo Botti la upp ett Facebook inlägg som förklarade sin vy på situationen som kan läsas nedan.
”The truth is we were having an argument and he started to yell. If you keep talking I can’t fucking talk’ and repeated that a few times before he went crazy and flipped the glass table of the desk to the floor and came after me with multiple punches on my head while I was seating in the chair.
”I stood up leaning my back against the wall and all I did was cover my eye with one arm and yell, ’my eye you son of b*tch don’t touch my eye,’ while he was throwing punches in my head.”
”His muay Thai coach and only witness didn’t stop him, he slowly walked behind him and said, ’ok, enough,’ so he basically stopped because he wanted to. Then the muay Thai coach was in between me and him and I said, ’you are a piece of shit coward because you know I can’t fight back,’ and I said, ’If I could we would fight til someone die here, I don’t punch not because I don’t have balls but because I can go blind forever,’ and as soon as I said that he pushed his friend out of his way and came after me again with another set of multiple punches in the head while I was just covering again.”
Botti hade sedan tagit kontakt med polisen men de tog inte lång tid för Brown’s advokat att höra av sig.
”Later that day the brother of the fighter that assaulted called me because he is a lawyer and he asked me, ’What do you want to make things go smoothly?’ I said, ’I want to know what you would want if you go blind for the rest of your life, I want what is right and hopefully the judge is gonna say it.”
”Later that day I got informed that the person that assaulted me and his muay Thai coach told police that I shoved him first and he only threw one punch, it was probably a super punch then because made a few bumps in my head, 1 big one and also hurt my eye.”
”There is no ’my side of the story’ there is just what happened, and what happened I posted here on my page already because I am worried about my students to know only.”
”I am not worried about his followers to know or anything related to him. He will have to deal with court when the time comes. I am just worried about running my gym and keeping my students happy, they are already happier that he left and they are disgusted by his recent attitudes after he assaulted me.”
Brown svarade på uttalandet som ni kan läsa här.
Matt Brown som härnäst ska ta sig an den forne welterviktsmästaren Johny Hendricks under UFC 185 den 14:e mars i Dallas, Texas. Det är oklart om den matchen blir hotad beroende på hur utredningen går. Mer information lär släppas inom kort.
