The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the highly anticipated fight card of UFC 224 at the moment. On Thursday night, May 10, a group of UFC officials and MMA notables were robbed at gunpoint while in the city. Now a UFC official has come forward with details on the incident.
Speaking to TMZ Sports, MMA manager Brian Butler-Au offered a detailed telling of the situation.
“I was talking with Dean [Klein], one of the guys that works at the UFC. Everybody was just having a good time, talking, telling stories and just having a great time. This guy walked up beside me, he came up on my left side and I just looked over at him and then he just pulled out this hand gun that had an extended magazine on it and he just put it up in my face. And then he grabbed my phone.
“I was still trying to compute what was going on. While he grabbed my phone, [I saw] there were two other guys with him and another guy had a gun. I didn’t see the other guy with the gun because I was distracted by the one that was in my face. But they went around and they robbed everybody else at the table. It was like 10 of us.”
“It was a scary situation. Like I said, glad that everybody is OK. Some people are shook up. I was a little shook up after it settled in. Like, ‘Whoa, that was really close.’ But everybody is very supportive. UFC has been very good, very supportive.”
“It’s pretty crazy, because we already got all the warnings about how it’s a little unstable over here and ‘stay by the hotel’ and all that stuff.”
Check out Butler-Au’s full thoughts within the video below:
