{"id":245141,"date":"2017-07-24T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T00:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245141"},"modified":"2017-07-24T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T00:54:25","slug":"pat-miletich-shares-positive-update-matt-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/matt-hughes\/pat-miletich-shares-positive-update-matt-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Miletich shares positive update on Matt Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes was involved in a horrific accident on June 16 when his pickup truck was\u00a0struck by an oncoming train in Raymond, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was airlifted to a nearby hospital immediately following the accident and it was later revealed that the former UFC welterweight champion of the world was in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>During today&#8217;s episode of The MMA Hour, the UFC&#8217;s first ever welterweight champion, Pat Miletich, shared a positive update on his long time friend and training partner with host Ariel Helwani.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe is surprising the doctors,\u201d Miletich said (as transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/7\/24\/16021842\/pat-miletich-matt-hughes-surprising-the-doctors-no-longer-in-coma\">MMAFighting<\/a>). \u201cHe\u2019s making great leaps and he\u2019s no longer in a coma, and he\u2019s improving. It\u2019s going to be a long road. Any type of head trauma at that level, there\u2019s going to be some rehab.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pat Miletich would go on to reveal some details from the brutal accident, explaining that Hughes was stuck on a hill and unable to cross the train tracks in time.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe [train] engineer said, Matt had stopped on the gravel road,\u201d Miletich said. \u201cIt\u2019s a hill, goes up, it\u2019s 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re out in the country, there\u2019s no crossing guards, there\u2019s no lights,\u201d Miletich continued. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like, he saw it, then tried to beat it. What I would say is that, you\u2019re on a gravel road out in country on a hill and you\u2019re trying to punch it and get over, you\u2019re going to swing tires, he didn\u2019t get across in time and got clipped on the passenger side.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Miletich added the following information,<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n\u201cNobody is allowed to visit him besides family,\u201d Miletich said. \u201cThat\u2019s it right now. They don\u2019t want to overload him, they want his energy to go to healing and not to anything else. I\u2019m 100 percent sure he\u2019s going to make a full recovery.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes was involved in a horrific accident on June 16 when his pickup truck was\u00a0struck by an oncoming train in Raymond, Illinois. 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