Written by ESPN News Staff at ESPN.com
A friend of Matt Hughes’ provided a positive update on the former UFC welterweight champion, calling his recovery from a June collision “nothing short of a miracle.”
“Less than two months ago I didn’t know if my best friend was going to make it, and tonight we made a jail break for sushi (in disguise. Ha),” Tony Zucca wrote in a social media post Sunday that accompanied a photo of the two friends on a sidewalk. “Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions!”
Hughes was airlifted to a medical facility in mid-June after the truck he was driving collided with a train about 12 miles north of Hughes’ home in Hillsboro, Illinois.
According to Illinois State Police, Hughes, 43, drove a pickup truck across a railroad grade crossing “directly in front of a train, and the train struck the passenger side of the truck.” Although Hughes didn’t suffer any broken bones or internal injuries in the crash, he remained in a coma until last month.
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