Patricky, Patricio Pitbull refute Karate Combat president’s claims over Miami brawls: ‘You are af***ing liar’
Karate Combat turned the middle of controversy forward of its current occasion in Miami, when a full-scale brawl broke out on the fighter lodge after weigh-ins on Friday, May 1.
The Pitbull brothers — Patricio and Patricky Freire — discovered themselves on the coronary heart of the scuffle. Patricky, a former Bellator champion, was gearing up for his Karate Combat debut towards light-weight champion Shahzaib Rind. But issues took a chaotic flip when Rind’s crew ambushed the brothers’ household within the lodge foyer, spraying them with water weapons and sparking an enormous brawl that spilled out to the lodge’s entrance entrance.
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Patricky suffered a lower over his eye within the alternate, in the end resulting in the battle’s cancellation simply someday out from the occasion. With the Brazilian compelled to withdraw, Rind went on to defeat a late-replacement, UFC veteran Andre Ewell, by way of second-round stoppage.
Before the incident occurred, the Pitbull brothers have been already suspicious of what they’d gotten into, they advised Uncrowned. It began the evening earlier than, when Patricky and Rind had a faceoff in entrance of the well-known Sunray Motel. Patricky and Rind obtained right into a a lot smaller-scale scuffle that evening. Speaking via an interpreter, Patricky advised Uncrowned that issues had been playful till Rind went chest-to-chest and began pushing him backward. Losing his steadiness, Patricky utilized a physique lock, to which Rind responded with elbows. Rind then tried to punch him, Patricky stated. Once separated, Rind went for kicks to the top, prompting Patricio to come back in for a deescalation try.
Patricio, talking alongside his brother, advised Uncrowned his perception that the entire thing was orchestrated from the start, not simply by Rind, however by Karate Combat President Asim Zaidi, who coaches and trains Rind at his health club, The Goat Shed in Miami.
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“All this was manipulated by them,” Patricio said. “They have been making an attempt to create one thing. They needed Patricky to go alone. And after the problem was resolved, we began seeing posts on Karate Combat social media speaking about four-on-one. They did a collab with a Pakistani influencer, they usually took down that collab after we began complaining and confirmed our model of the info.
“There are several things you can see on Karate Combat’s Instagram with him. You can see the president, who’s his coach and manager, doing collabs with him on those kinds of posts. So they created the animosity that led to what happened the other day, because they were instigating people against us. They were saying we were cowards. … They even used AI to create an image. If you look at the video, Shahzaib hits me with a slap with an open palm and his glasses in his hand. But if you look at Karate Combat’s Instagram right now, we will see the image of him — it looks like a perfect hook. You can see my head tilted to the side, and he looks like a movie star. “They created that picture, they posted it as actual in a couple of put up, they usually saved instigating folks towards us.”
The Pitbull brothers had already begun speaking out against Karate Combat’s alleged setup following the hotel brawl. They alleged the water gun attackers to be Rind’s teammates, pointing to pictures posted on their Instagram accounts with the water guns before the incident.
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“Even if that was a prank, a joke, no matter that was, I did not know who these guys have been,” Patricio said. “I had by no means seen them earlier than that day. And even when it was a pal of mine, if he did that to my spouse, I might have overwhelmed him up too. You cannot come to a person’s desk, spray water at his spouse’s face, and anticipate to exit with no repercussions. They attacked us, they usually knew there can be a reply. If they mess with our household, issues may get uglier. And that is precisely what they have been on the lookout for, a lot in order that they’d cameras on.”
In this case, Patricio noted that they had no idea what was being sprayed from the guns.
Speaking Wednesday on Uncrowned’s “The Ariel Helwani Show”Zaidi refuted any claims that the promotion played a part in the fight week antics. However, because of the incident, he claimed the Florida Athletic Commission suspended both Pitbull brothers.
Regardless, he said he still hopes to make the Patricky vs. Rind fight happen in the future.
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Matheus Aquino — the brothers’ manager — clarified their status with the Florida Athletic Commission. As Zaidi mentioned, the commissioner was present for the brawl but didn’t witness it in its entirety. Patricky and Diego Brandao are currently on temporary suspension at the time of this publication while the commission reviews all available footage.
Patricio believes Zaidi simply tried to control the narrative around the brawls, citing his social media posts. He claimed Zaidi asked their management team to take down their online complaints, while still posting his own attacks on them. The brothers felt Zaidi’s attempts to be friendly felt disingenuous compared to his online comments.
Patricio Pitbull shares texts between him and Asim Zaidi. (Photo Credit: Drake Riggs)
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“I knew that I might have all the things going towards me, however I did not care as a result of I knew how the battle would go,” Patricky said. “But we had 4 fighters in Karate Combat, a few champions there. One of these, it has been two years since her final battle. She gained the title, however they by no means obtained her again to battle once more. She’s caught in a contract. So I knew there have been some issues probably not correct within the group. I knew about [Zaidi and Rind] having ties. But coming throughout this week and after the primary altercation, we understood that we have been introduced there only for engagement, only for clicks.
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“They never had any intention to make the fight happen. They tried to create something at the faceoffs. Things didn’t escalate, but they could have escalated there, and the fight would have been canceled. So they did what they did, as they weren’t able to get what they wanted, because they wanted me to go alone at the faceoffs. And my brother ended up going with our wives and our coach. Then we had the issue on the day of the [weigh-ins]and they were just doing all those promos.
“They did not even put me to battle towards Shahzaib for the title. It was a five-round battle, however the title wasn’t on the road. Five rounds however no belt. Make it make sense. They had a man who was a featherweight who was going to battle another person battle Shahzaib. They had all of it found out. They have been simply looking for a approach to make me not make it to the battle. They have been in a position to, they usually obtained what they needed — they obtained the promotion.”
Since Rind’s victory over Ewell, Rind has made posts about fighting in the UFC, calling out Patricio. Rind has never fought in MMA, but Patricky is still willing to take him on if he wants to make the leap.
Zaidi may still be open to the concept of the matchup in Karate Combat, but according to Patricio, some wrongs need to be righted first and foremost.
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“First, out of all the things, he has to pay my brother. He did make weight. He was prepared. He has to apologize for all of the issues he did,” Patricio stated.
“It was all staged, man. You can’t find any other excuse for that. … They shot us and expect nothing to happen? Of course we’re going to beat them. He already knew how we were before. He knew something could escalate that way. It was staged to make us look bad. So they have to turn around and show respect and pay Patricky, make some proper, correct statements about everything.”
For the sake of their aforementioned teammates, the brothers have been skeptical about whether or not they need to even communicate out in regards to the incidents and their remedy. The champion they talked about, Sthefanie Oliveira, was one-and-done within the promotion. She gained her lone battle in 2023 and was shelved till this previous March, when she returned to MMA.
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Patricio did not sugarcoat issues, punctuating his and his brother’s present stance.
“Asim, you are af***ing liar, motherf***er,” Patricio stated. “You didn’t pay f***ing nothing for my family or my team. You just paid the flight for my brother and his coach. You told Ariel Helwani that you paid everything. You didn’t pay anything. I can show you the bank statements. We were the ones that paid for everything. You didn’t pay for nothing. You are a mess, motherf***er.”
