Bellator Lightweight Champion and American Top Team standout “Ill” Will Brooks has been tweeting up a storm today, making a pretty serious allegation in the process. With a bloody shirt as proof, he’s claiming that the Pitbull Brothers (Patricky and Bellator Featherweight Champion Patricio Freire), jumped and sucker punched him during some kind of Bellator fight week festivities in St. Louis, Missouri:
Pitbull brothers showed me what cowards they are. They jumped me while I was on the phone with my mom.
— Will Brooks (@ILLxWillBrooks) November 4, 2015
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Punch me while I'm being held back by your people. Cowards
— Will Brooks (@ILLxWillBrooks) November 4, 2015
I've never had to sucker punch or jump anyone I held things on my own but these cowards aren't built like real men
— Will Brooks (@ILLxWillBrooks) November 4, 2015
Brooks has never fought either of the brothers in the cage (technically, Patricky is the only one in his weight class), but they’ve gone back and forth in the media at times. Brooks and Patricio are scheduled to defend their titles this Friday night (November 6, 2015) at Bellator’s latest big “tentpole” event in St. Louis Missouri (against Marcin Held and Brooks’ sparring partner Daniel Straus, respectively). One would think that this could affect one or both fights depending on how Bellator and/or the Missouri Office of Athletics decide to deal with the situation.
UPDATE: Here’s Patricio Freire’s side of what happened as well as more from Brooks, who’s saying he has video of the incident:
Will Brooks is a liar. He hit Patricky first and came at me, I went after him too and my first punch landed. We were separated.
— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015
Then he came again, I knocked him down. He tried to take me down, we were separated again and he started calling us cowards.
— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015
He was a man of his word and faced the consequences. Now act like a man and tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/duGEbX9jRK
— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015
I'm still pretty and still focused on my fight even though these cowards jumped me. We have video
— Will Brooks (@ILLxWillBrooks) November 4, 2015
