The UFC welterweight Demian Maia has opened up about a brutal fight in Sweden, in which a member of a “middle eastern gang” stabbed him, on the Inteligencia Ltda podcast. Demian Maia was reportedly outside a club in Sweden in the early hours of the morning, when some local thugs decided to try their luck with him.
“I’m in the corner, and like in other clubs outside Brazil, at 2 AM, they turn on the light. 2 AM, all lights turned on. All the security guards went down to evacuate people and things like that. When I stood up, there were some guys from that gang there and they saw me. I think it was a small town thing.
Demian Maia Details Brutal Street Fight With “Middle Eastern Gang” in Sweden
The guy came at me to attack me, but not exactly attack me. He came to push me. No reason, man. They were very messy. They kind of ran the place.”
Maia, who was at the time nursing a broken leg, reacted swiftly and brutally by delivering a ferocious elbow to the man’s face.
“I was upset because my knee wasn’t getting better. I had hurt myself again in Sweden teaching class and stuff like that. When the guy came to put his hand on me, I threw an elbow at him. In his face.
But that elbow was so hard, he didn’t fall over. He just imploded in the same place, you know. Do you know when a guy lands on his own leg? Yeah, man. He imploded.
Man, by the time he fell, my first thought was, ‘God, please help me. I hope I didn’t kill this guy.’ Because it was too strong and the guy blacked out right away. I thought, ‘Imagine I killed this guy, I’m going to be f—ked, stuck in Sweden for the rest of my life.’”
The rest of the gang rushed over and attacked Maia en masse, with one member stabbing the UFC welterweight. “F—k, no one would want to know he came to assault me.
In the end, I would have killed the guy, Suddenly, I see a small guy coming up beside me quietly. All this I’m talking about was in five or six seconds, I don’t know. But very fast.
The elbow, two punches. I walked backward, the guy came and hit me in the belly. This guy didn’t hit me in the belly, he stabbed me. And I knew it right away. Why did I notice? Because these guys don’t know how to fight, they’re just making trouble.
If the guy isn’t a very good boxer who knows what to do, he’ll never hit you in the belly. He’ll hit the head. The guy will try to hurt you in the face. And as soon as it hit down here, I felt a knock and they ran away.”
Fortunately, Demian Maia was rushed to hospital, and he made a full recovery. Hopefully the gang members think twice about their next target. What do you think Maia should have done in the situation? Let us know in the comments.
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