Brooks (photo via Bellator)

By FCF Staff

Just a couple of days before they’re scheduled to defend their titles at Bellator 145, Will Brooks and Patricio “Pitbull” Freire are reporting they’ve had a pre-event altercation.

Brooks and Patricio Freire have exchanged words in the past, but on Wednesday, the lightweight and featherweight champs respectively, reported the following:

Pitbull brothers showed me what cowards they are. They jumped me while I was on the phone with my mom.

— Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) November 4, 2015

Punch me while I'm being held back by your people. Cowards

— Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) November 4, 2015

I've never had to sucker punch or jump anyone I held things on my own but these cowards aren't built like real men

— Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) November 4, 2015

I'm still pretty and still focused on my fight even though these cowards jumped me. We have video

— Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) November 4, 2015

Thank you to all my fans checking to make sure I'm ok. I'm just fine and will go out there Friday and put on for my people. #andstill

— Will Brooks (@illwillbrooks86) November 4, 2015

Will Brooks is a liar. He hit Patricky first and came at me, I went after him too and my first punch landed. We were separated.

— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015

Then he came again, I knocked him down. He tried to take me down, we were separated again and he started calling us cowards.

— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015

He was a man of his word and faced the consequences. Now act like a man and tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/duGEbX9jRK

— Patricio Freire (@PatricioPitbull) November 4, 2015

Patricio Freire is scheduled to fight Daniel Straus at Friday’s card in St. Louis, and Brooks is set to take on Marcin Held.