Matt Brown Reveals Details About Hotel Attack In Brazil

UFC welterweight Matt Brown faced a lot of adversity this past weekend in Brazil. First off he enraged the Brazilian crowds during the weigh-ins for his feature prelim bout with home favorite Demian Maia, flipping them off amid chants of ‘you’re going to die’ from the 15,000 strong crowd. Then came the night of the fight, and ‘The Immortal’ was mobbed by angry fans on the way to the octagon. He was struck a number of times, finally striking back with a right hand as one fan yanked the hood of his Reebok outfit.

It’s never a good start whn you get hit before you’ve even got started fighting, whether it impacted on Brown’s performance is unknown, but he certainly got dominated by the far superior grappler. Maia controlled ‘The Immortal’ much to the delight of the 45,000 seater stadium which was packed to the gills. The partisan supporters raised the roof on the arena as Maia submitted Brown in the third round.

Here’s the video replay of the fight before the fight:
So after taking some strife before the fact, then getting burnt by Maia in rather convincing fashion, it looked as though Brown’s excursion to Brazil couldn’t get much worse. That statement couldn’t be any further from the truth, as ‘The Immortal’ was jumped by an old acquaintance in the UFC 198 host hotel the morning after the event…

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Following his gnarly submission loss to Demian Maia, a disappointed Matt Brown was involved in yet another bizarre incident. This time it was his former BJJ coach Rodrigo Botti who would wing a sucker punch at ‘The Immortal’ in Brazil. The difference here was that he was handed some instant payback for his cowardly crime, as you’ll see in the video after Brown’s side of the story.

Check out what Matt Brown told The Great MMA Debate, via MMAFighting.com about the controversial attack in the UFC 198 host hotel:

“I got up late [on Sunday], come down for lunch and I’m sitting there sipping coffee and suddenly I feel something on the side of my head,” he said. “I thought that it was a fan…you know, these fans that were smacking me in the head, that’s what it felt like, right? So I thought maybe a guy was hitting my shoulder a little bit hard and missed. Or maybe I moved at the wrong time or something, and I kind of looked at my coach and was like, ‘what a d*ck – what a dick move.’

“In between me and the stairs was a huge pillar,” he said. “So the perpetrator must’ve been spying. There’s no way he couldn’t have known that I was sitting there without actually walking around and looking for a specific person.”

Matt Brown described his friend, who is captured in the video giving Botti a tasty beatdown, as a ‘pitbull off a leash.’ UFC exec and WEC founder Reed Harris also shot straight out the door to subdue the fleeing Botti, who had brought charges against Brown for an alleged assault that happened during a business discussion. The charges have since been dropped.

“Reed Harris is an old-school gangster. Botti got what was coming to him,” he said. “This coward of a man got what was coming.”