Soulbringer320
25-07-2017, 17:22
On Friday, June 16, UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes was in a vehicle that collided with a moving train. He was airlifted to HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois.
At the time his family released a statement, via the social network of his sister Beth Hughes Ulrici (https://www.facebook.com/beth.hughesulrici).
“Matt is stable and has no broken bones or internal injuries,” she wrote at the time. “He has some minor lacerations and bruising and is currently being weaned from his ventilator. He is not yet awake and not responding as we would like to see but we see the fight in him.”
Hughes’ former coach UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour and reports that the fighter’s condition is improving.
“He is surprising the doctors,” said Miletich, as transcribed byDave Doyle (http://twitter.com/davedoylemma) for MMA Fighting (https://www.mmafighting.com/2017/7/24/16021842/pat-miletich-matt-hughes-surprising-the-doctors-no-longer-in-coma). “He’s making great leaps and he’s no longer in a coma, and he’s improving. It’s going to be a long road. Any type of head trauma at that level, there’s going to be some rehab.”
“The [train] engineer said, Matt had stopped on the gravel road. It’s a hill, goes up, it’s a real quick hill that goes up to the railroad tracks. He had stopped, then tried to get across it in time. The train was going almost 50 MPH.
“When you’re out in the country, there’s no crossing guards, there’s no lights. It’s almost like, he saw it, then tried to beat it. What I would say is that, you’re on a gravel road out in country on a hill and you’re trying to punch it and get over, you’re going to swing tires, he didn’t get across in time and got clipped on the passenger side.”
“Nobody is allowed to visit him besides family. That’s it right now. They don’t want to overload him, they want his energy to go to healing and not to anything else.”
“I’m 100 percent sure he’s going to make a full recovery.”
At the time his family released a statement, via the social network of his sister Beth Hughes Ulrici (https://www.facebook.com/beth.hughesulrici).
“Matt is stable and has no broken bones or internal injuries,” she wrote at the time. “He has some minor lacerations and bruising and is currently being weaned from his ventilator. He is not yet awake and not responding as we would like to see but we see the fight in him.”
Hughes’ former coach UFC Hall of Famer Pat Miletich appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour and reports that the fighter’s condition is improving.
“He is surprising the doctors,” said Miletich, as transcribed byDave Doyle (http://twitter.com/davedoylemma) for MMA Fighting (https://www.mmafighting.com/2017/7/24/16021842/pat-miletich-matt-hughes-surprising-the-doctors-no-longer-in-coma). “He’s making great leaps and he’s no longer in a coma, and he’s improving. It’s going to be a long road. Any type of head trauma at that level, there’s going to be some rehab.”
“The [train] engineer said, Matt had stopped on the gravel road. It’s a hill, goes up, it’s a real quick hill that goes up to the railroad tracks. He had stopped, then tried to get across it in time. The train was going almost 50 MPH.
“When you’re out in the country, there’s no crossing guards, there’s no lights. It’s almost like, he saw it, then tried to beat it. What I would say is that, you’re on a gravel road out in country on a hill and you’re trying to punch it and get over, you’re going to swing tires, he didn’t get across in time and got clipped on the passenger side.”
“Nobody is allowed to visit him besides family. That’s it right now. They don’t want to overload him, they want his energy to go to healing and not to anything else.”
“I’m 100 percent sure he’s going to make a full recovery.”