One of the great urban legends of MMA comes from PRIDE Shockwave 2005, where Charles Krazy Horse Bennett was supposedly jumped by six members of Chute Boxe in a locker room after the event.

As Krazy Horse tells it, he knocked out Wanderlei Silva after he regained consciousness.

Finally, someone has come up with video evidence of the fracas, and it turns out Horse’s version of the story has some holes in it.

The clip above shows Bennett doing the jumping, as he tackles Cristiano Marcello after some trash-talk from the Brazilian.

Rather than gang-stomping Krazy Horse, the Chute Boxe team displays remarkable restraint in letting the pair settle their beef one-on-one, which eventually leads to Marcello choking Horse into unconsciousness. (Now that is just high-level locker room jiu-jitsu.)

As for that bit about Bennett knocking out the Axe Murderer? Well, apparently, that moment wasn’t captured on tape.

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If the name Cristiano Marcello rings a bell for MMA fans, it’s most likely because they know him as the former Chute Boxe coach who famously fought Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett in a surprisingly technical backstage brawl at a Pride event in 2005.

Cristiano Marcello talks about the fight with MMAFighting.com.

“This occurred due to lack of education of the athlete Krazy Horse … because I was on the corner of Ken Kaneco, a Japanese athlete who fought against Krazy Horse and he won. So soon after the fight I challenged him to a fight. His team was in the same locker room as ours (Chute Boxe) and he was very unhappy and started to talk trash. What happened after that you guys saw in the video posted on YouTube.”

The thing that seemed strange about your fight with Krazy Horse was how everyone in the locker room seemed to treat it as if it was a sanctioned, normal MMA fight, shouting instructions and breaking it up once he was out. Did that surprise you? Are backstage fights at events more common in Brazil, or did it seem just as bizarre to you when it was happening?

Here in Brazil we are very respectful, and we have a very strong code of honor. He could be alone in the locker room that night and nothing would have occurred. To be honest, I do not think disputes should be resolved this way. But the acts of his education and aggression led to this situation. In relation to the corners in the fight, it was a normal situation of clean fight. [source : mmafighting.com]