Matt Hughes has found himself in quite the predicament earlier this week when it came out that his wife and twin brother had had restraining orders taken out against him. As reported by TMZ:

 Audra says shortly after he recovered from the trauma in September or October 2017 … he roughed her up badly in the shower.

Audra claims she refused to give Matt his truck keys, saying, “I told him he can’t have them because he shouldn’t drive due to his DAI (brain injury).”

She alleges Matt then snapped … choked her — and asked her for the code to his gun vault.

When Audra refused again … she says Matt choked her again, smashed her head against the shower wall and screamed, “This is what choking is!”

Audra says nearly a year later on July 21, 2018 … Matt told her, “I’m going to f*cking shoot you,” because she took his phone, claiming, “he was communicating with multiple women.”

Audra also says just a few months later, on Dec. 12, 2018 … Matt hit her in front of her son, their daughter and her step-dad after she accused him of texting other women.

Audra filed for a restraining order the following day … and a judge has since ordered the fighter to stay at least 500-feet away from Audra and their children.

There’s more … Matt’s twin brother, Mark Hughes — a retired MMA fighter who competed at UFC 28 in 2000 — has also filed for a restraining order against the 45-year-old, alleging Matt roughed up his son and tried to destroy his tractor.

Mark says the two had a disagreement over which brother actually OWNS the tractor … and when Matt saw Mark’s 15-year-old son driving it sometime later on Sept. 23, 2018 — he lost it on the kid.

Mark alleges Matt grabbed his son, shook him and told him that’s his “f*cking tractor.”

Mark also says a week later on Sept. 30, 2018 … he believes Matt doused the tractor and its surrounding area in gasoline — and suspects he was trying to destroy it.

Mark filed for a restraining order the next day … which a judge granted — ordering Matt to stay away from his brother and his family.

Hughes had seen the impact this scathing incident had on the public opinion of him and quickly released his own statement that can be summed up as a denial that blames the strain in his familial relations on his recovery from the said accident. However Matt Serra believes there’s just one side-effect of the accident and that’s that Hughes can no longer hide his personality:

Matt Hughes and Matt Serra have been at each other’s throats for several years now. The two have faced off in the octagon as well. Before all that and after Matt Serra lost a split decision to Din Thomas at UFC 41 in 2003, Hughes approached Serra at a bar and the two seemed to strike up a friendship and agreed to train together. The friendship didn’t last long as “dry sense of humor” of Matt Hughes rubbed Serra the wrong way.
At some point Hughes had accepted Jesus in some very strange circumstances and he started claiming Matt Serra is a bad ambassador for the sport because of his habit of dropping the occasional “f bomb” every now and then – however Hughes himself uses expletives in his autobiography.

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