Rodrigo Botti, Jiu-Jitsu coach of UFC fighter Matt Brown, has accused his now former student of assaulting him.

Brown is set to face former welterweight champion Johny Hendricks on March 14 at UFC 185 in Dallas, Texas.

On Feb. 11, Botti posted a Facebook status where he said that Brown assaulted him while he was seated. while he was seated in a chair behind a desk. Botti had “16 internal stitches” in his left eye, and he had  surgery Feb. 10.

Botti is a BJJ black belt and is also an undefeated MMA fighter with a 6-0 record.

Botti posted on his facebook:

“The truth is we were having an argument and he started to yell. [He said], ‘If you keep talking I can’t f*cking 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 [sic] 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.”
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“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 sh*t 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.”
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“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.”

A police investigation is underway.

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