A lightweight bout between Patricky Pitbull and Karate Combat champion Shahzaib Rind is off of Saturday’s card in Miami after the Brazilian fighter suffered a cut over his left eye during a brawl that broke out Friday morning outside the fighters’ hotel, MMA Fighting has learned.
The confusion started during a promotional face-off Thursday night in the streets of Miami. Pitbull and Rind got too close and the Brazilian held him even closer with a body lock. Rind tried to push his face away, and threw a head kick as they separated. The kick missed, but Patricky’s brother, UFC featherweight Patricio Pitbull, stepped in and traded punches with Rind.
Another member of Pitbull’s crew apparently got in as well, but staff managed to separate them all.
Watch the near-brawl below.
Speaking with MMA Fighting on Friday afternoon, Patricky Pitbull revealed he suffered a cut during a brawl.
“What a f*cking coward move,” Pitbull said. “There was that altercation yesterday, and his friends already showed up prepared today. They started throwing water at us during breakfast. It was me, Patricio, and our wives. Patricio asked them to stop, he said we were with our family, and they kept going. I stood up and threw a bottle of water at them. They ran off and I chased them. When we got outside, a brawl broke out and I was the one who got hurt.”
The former Bellator champion claimed it was all “planned” by Rind and his friends, who were filming the whole scene form the start. Rind wasn’t in the brawl, Pitbull said, “but he was watching it from afar.”
“They came throwing water and there were already people recording,” Pitbull said. “It was all set up. These guys were the ones protecting him before the weigh-ins.”
Rind and Karate Combat have yet to comment on the incident.
Pitbull was set to enter the Karate Combat pit and attempt to end a six-match losing streak, with five losses in MMA and a grappling defeat to Arman Tsarukyan. He hasn’t won a MMA fight since knocking out RIZIN champion Roberto Satoshi in a non-title affair in Japan back in July 2023.
Rind won and defended twice the Karate Combat lightweight champion, staying unbeaten in eight appearances so far under the promotion’s banner. The 27-year-old Pakistani fighter also has one bare-knuckle MMA bout in his record, a 2023 knockout win over Carlos Guerra at Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA.
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