Patricky, Patricio Pitbull refute Karate Combat president's claims over Miami brawls: 'You are a f***ing liar'

Karate Combat became the center of controversy ahead of its recent event in Miami, when a full-scale brawl broke out at the fighter hotel after weigh-ins on Friday, May 1. The Pitbull brothers — Patricio and Patricky Freire — found themselves at the heart of the scuffle. Patricky, a former Bellator champion, was gearing up for his Karate Combat debut against lightweight champion Shahzaib Rind.

But things took a chaotic turn when Rind and his crew ambushed the brothers’ family in the hotel lobby, spraying them with water guns and sparking a massive brawl that spilled out to the hotel’s front entrance. Patricky suffered a cut over his eye in the exchange, ultimately leading to the fight’s cancelation just one day out from the event. With the Brazilian forced to withdraw, Rind went on to defeat a late-replacement, UFC veteran Andre Ewell, via second-round stoppage.

Before the incident occurred, the Pitbull brothers were already suspicious of what they’d gotten into, they told Uncrowned. It started the night prior, when Patricky and Rind had a faceoff in front of the famous Sunray Motel. Patricky and Rind got into a much smaller-scale scuffle that night.

Speaking through an interpreter, Patricky told Uncrowned that things had been playful until Rind went chest-to-chest and started pushing him backward. Losing his balance, Patricky applied a body lock, to which Rind responded with elbows. Rind then tried to punch him, Patricky said.