Pitbull Brothers Clash With Asim Zaidi Over Karate Combat 61 Brawls
Karate combat 61 in Miami turned into a dispute over security, blame and a cut that took Patricky Pitbull off the next day’s card. Patricky and Patricio Pitbull are at odds with president Asim Zaidi over how the fight-week brawls were handled, and the split now sits at the center of the event.
Patricky Pitbull Cut In Miami
Patricky Pitbull did not enter the pit for his clash with champion Shahzaib Rind after multiple street brawls broke out around the event. He later suffered a cut and was removed from the next day’s Karate Combat card, turning a tense week into a direct change to the lineup.
The sequence started on April 30, when Patricky and Rind’s face-off escalated after the Pitbull side and Rind traded punches and kicks. The next morning, MMA fighters CJ Brant and Austin Spivey went to the host hotel with water guns and attacked Patricky, Patricio and their wives.
Zaidi Defends Security Choices
Zaidi said there was no security for the Thursday faceoff because the athletes involved were so high level that he did not think it was needed. “I really didn’t think it was needed,” he said. On the Friday weigh-in, he added, “I didn’t have security on this one because it was in front of the commission.”
Patricio said he suggested extra security on Friday morning because he anticipated “some kind of incident.” Patricky said Shahzaib Rind was to blame for the Thursday clash because “they didn’t respect the faceoff limits,” while he described his own response with the line, “I just held my ground.”
Miami Fight Week Fallout
Zaidi said nobody got hurt in the Thursday faceoff and that the incident was over after the event made it out healthy. He also called the hotel attack “very stupid,” while the brothers accused Karate Combat of trying to manipulate the narrative on social media.
That leaves Karate Combat 61 with more than just a missing fighter. Patricky’s cut removed him from the next day’s card, and the public fight over security now sits alongside the brawls themselves as the week’s main story in Miami.
