“Kill and your family die”- Maryna Moroz admits receiving death threats from Russian folks before her fight at UFC 272
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Ukrainian fighter Maryna Moroz defeated Kazakh fighter Mariya Agapova by submission via arm-triangle choke at UFC 272. “The Iron Lady” had an emotionally draining fight not just because she fought Agapova, who was once a teammate but because her family and her country are facing invasion by the Russians.
It isn’t hard for anyone to see why the Ukrainian, who coached the Ukrainian Olympic Boxing team, has such strong fold love for her country. Right after her victory, a staggered Moroz took the microphone from UFC commentator, Joe Rogan and broke down while trying to talk about her family and her home.
While talking to Ariel Helwani from The MMA Hour, Moroz further explained the horrors her family has to endure during these times. She admits receiving death threats from Russian all throughout the fight week, “All this time I’d open my Instagram and I’d see news or terrible messages. Russian people writing me terrible messages. My opponent’s friend, she lived together, write bad message, ‘Oh, today, kill and your family die,’ like bad messages. I’d cry, but every moment I’d say, ‘Stop. You’re strong, strong. You can do it. You can.’”
“My father make a lot of Molotov cocktails”- Maryna Moroz’s family is preparing for the worst case scenario
Maryna did everything in her power to try and convince her family to move out of Ukraine, but they are not ready to leave their home. “My family is outside (the war zone), but it’s still dangerous,” Moroz said. “The whole country, whole territory right now, it’s dangerous to stay, because Russians can come to village, any place. So my father make a lot of Molotov cocktails and have a couple guns at home. My sister’s husband go in the army, out right now, he’s protecting the city.”
She added, “I see these terrible pictures, kids dying, killing a whole city, fires at home, many scary pictures, and I feel sad. This terrible time, bad emotion — I don’t know how to say it. So scary. I want to every day cry, and it’s so hard. And I want this to stop. One day, I believe it’ll stop, and no more of this. I want to go back in my country again, normal life.”
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