Legendary mma figure Matt Hughes was struck by an oncoming train in his pick up truck earlier last month.

After showing minor improvements he was taken off the ventilator and resumed breathing on his own with only his family allowed visits. Now Pat Miletich  – his former trainer and friend is vouching for his surprising recovery.

“He is surprising the doctors,” Miletich said in a recent appearance on “The MMA Hour” via (MMA Fighting). “He’s making great leaps and he’s no longer in a coma, and he’s improving. It’s going to be a long road. Any type of head trauma at that level, there’s going to be some rehab.”

And as for the accident itself Miletich revealed:

“The [train] engineer said, Matt had stopped on the gravel road,” Miletich said. “It’s a hill, goes up, it’s a real quick hill that goes up to the railroad tracks. He had stopped, then tried to get across it in time. The train was going almost 50 miles per hour.

“When you’re out in the country, there’s no crossing guards, there’s no lights,” Miletich continued. “It’s almost like, he saw it, then tried to beat it. What I would say is that, you’re on a gravel road out in country on a hill and you’re trying to punch it and get over, you’re going to swing tires, he didn’t get across in time and got clipped on the passenger side.”

And while Miletich hasn’t seen Hughes yet per the family’s request, he is confident his former star pupil will make a full recovery.

“Nobody is allowed to visit him besides family,” Miletich said. “That’s it right now. They don’t want to overload him, they want his energy to go to healing and not to anything else, said Miletich. “I’m 100 percent sure he’s going to make a full recovery.”