In what seems to be a conflict between two rivaling gyms, an MMA fighter in Hamburg has been attacked by five masked assailants and was severely wounded by a machete.
At least five masked men invaded a local MMA gym in Hasselbrook, Hamburg at 9:45 pm on Wednesday night and attacked German top-ten middleweight Abeku Afful, with knifes, a baton and a machete, an eye witness told German MMA website GNP1.de. A main artery and a tendon of Afful's left leg have been severed by a machete hack. The fighter has immediately been transported to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery due to a significant amount of blood loss.