Legendary welterweight Matt Hughes is at the center of a police investigation stemming from an April bar brawl, this according to HeavyMMA.com.

UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes is at the center of a police investigation filed in Illinois.

TMZ reported this morning that Hughes was involved in an altercation inside of a bar on April 23 in Taylor Springs, Il. The report says that Hughes became involved in an argument with another bar patron and pushed a man into a woman, breaking her nose in the process.

Hughes is expected to face Diego Sanchez at UFC 135.

HeavyMMA.com will have more on the story as it develops.

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