Penn, who has a record of 1-1 in mixed martial arts, was in Rio de Janeiro to help his older brother B.J. Penn prepare for his upcoming UFC 232 fight with Ryan Hall on Dec. 29. However, on Wednesday night, he allegedly assaulted three people in Botafogo, multiple sources told MMA Fighting on Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro’s military police tweeted late Wednesday night that an “American, identified as an MMA fighter, had to be restrained after assaulting a few people” in a building at the Botafogo beach. “The foreigner was very aggressive,” the tweet read, and firemen were called to take the identified man to a local hospital.