MMA News: Former UFC Title Contender Recalls Being Stabbed In Ugly Bar Brawl

A UFC star who doesn’t really like violence was once involved in a bar fight.

Some years ago, Demian Maia survived an ugly fight at a nightclub in Sweden.

According to Maia, it was around 2:00 AM and the club was just about ready to close when a group of local thugs confronted him for “no reason.”

Maia was a bit upset at the time as his “knee wasn’t getting better” and picking up a fight was the last thing he would want to happen.

However, things got a little out of control and he ended up throwing a “hard” elbow on one of his attackers that made him think he could’ve killed him.

“When the guy came to put his hand on me, I threw an elbow at him,” Maia recently recalled on “Inteligencia Ltda” podcast. “In his face, that elbow was so hard, [but] he didn’t fall over. He just imploded in the same place, 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—--d, stuck in Sweden for the rest of my life.'”

What happened next was even worse, a “small guy” sneaked over and attacked Maia too.

Being a well-rounded fighter, Maia knew that the guy didn’t want to hit him. Instead, the attacker wanted to stab him.

After the commotion, Maia learned that he was right as he saw his shirt “soaked with blood.”

“Suddenly, I see a small guy coming up beside me quietly,” the Brazilian shaeed. “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.”

“I had this thing in my head, ‘Can’t get air, can’t get air’,” he continued. “I knew that getting air could cause embolism, and I got this paranoia. I still didn’t know if I was stabbed. I just felt the knock, but I was suspicious. When the guys ran away, I did it here. I looked over quickly and my shirt was soaked with blood.”

Maia was then rushed to the hospital. Fortunately for him, he didn’t sustain any serious injury.

Ironically, Maia is one of the very few UFC fighters who respect his craft, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so much that he only wants to submit his opponents without really beating them up.