Matt Brown blev under helgen attackerad av sin före detta tränare Rodrigo Botti under förra helgen då UFC 198 hölls i Brasilien. Det började med bråk på gymmet Ohio Combat Club i början på 2015. Botti hävdar att Brown och hans vänner då attackerade honom och förstörde hans kampsportskarriär.
När han sedan fick veta att Brown befann sig i stan i Curitiba i helgen beslutade han att hämnas för detta.
Det här berättade Botti via MMAFighting:
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When you’re cowardly assaulted like I was, you can’t control yourself. This guy destroyed my career, I lost part of my vision because of him, had to do another surgery. I couldn’t sleep normally for 15 months, it changed my entire life. I simply exploded (when I saw him)… He was a coward when he did what he did to me, and I’m satisfied with my attitude now. We are even. Everything could have been prevented if he had admitted he was wrong when he attacked me, or at least called me apologizing. Everybody is entitled to make a mistake, but the problem is that he had a fight coming up with Johnny Hendricks and a win could get him a title shot, so he was afraid of being punished. He decided to lie about it. That’s when it became personal, brother. I would never work with him anymore, but if he apologized, I’d forget it. If people are saying I was a coward against Matt Brown, which I don’t think I was, I’ll say that one cowardly action was paid back with another. But I don’t believe I was a coward.