Miletich: Matt Hughes out of coma, recovery surprising doctors

Pat Miletich provided a positive update on the health of fellow UFC Hall of Famer, Matt Hughes, during a Monday appearance on "The MMA Hour."

Miletich said Hughes is out of a coma five-and-a-half weeks after his truck was slammed on the passenger side by an oncoming train on June 16.

"He is surprising the doctors," Miletich said, according to MMAFighting.com's Dave Doyle. "He's making great leaps and he's no longer in a coma, and he's improving. It's going to be a long road. Any type of head trauma at that level, there's going to be some rehab."

Miletich also shed some light on how exactly the accident happened.

"The (train) engineer said, Matt had stopped on the gravel road," Miletich said. "It's a hill, goes up, it's 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.

"When you're out in the country, there's no crossing guards, there's no lights. It's almost like, he saw it, then tried to beat it. What I would say is that, you're on a gravel road out in country on a hill and you're trying to punch it and get over, you're going to swing tires, he didn't get across in time and got clipped on the passenger side."

Miletich said he's yet to visit Hughes in the hospital, but expressed his belief the former UFC welterweight champion will be back to his old self in time.

"Nobody is allowed to visit him besides family," Miletich said. "That's it right now. They don't want to overload him, they want his energy to go to healing and not to anything else.

"I'm 100 percent sure he's going to make a full recovery."