Morning Report: Amanda Ribas particulars latest stalker encounter: ‘He was telling individuals I used to be his spouse’

Rose Namajunas wasn’t the one individual Amanda Ribas needed to fear about forward of her final combat.

It is powerful to be an expert athlete. Put all of the surface-level components that include it apart and being a public determine is virtually its personal job. After 5 years and relying on the UFC roster below MMA’s brightest lights, Brazilian flyweight and strawweight contender Ribas isn’t any stranger to the eye. Nonetheless, issues went a bit too far forward of her final outing at UFC Vegas 89 this previous month.

Ribas, 30, was welcomed to Las Vegas the week of her combat by assembly makes an attempt from an alleged Ukrainian man. In keeping with the person, he and Ribas met throughout UFC 251 combat week when Ribas was booked to combat Paige VanZant, whom she went on to defeat through a first-round armbar. He’d apparently been mesmerized ever since.

“I don’t keep in mind his title, however he was a little bit of a loopy man,” Ribas informed Ag. Battle. “On the primary day, I arrived on the lodge — normally the followers are there for us to signal one thing, take an image — however this citizen was a bit loopy. He stored screaming, ‘Lovely, lovely, lovely.’ That very same day, the man on the entrance desk known as my room and mentioned, ‘Amanda, Alex is right here desirous to go upstairs.’ Besides that Alex is the title of my supervisor. I mentioned, ‘Hey, the sensei is right here now’. He went and mentioned a loopy final title, I mentioned, ‘I don’t know.’ I believed that was type of bizarre.

“The subsequent day, once we arrived once more on the reception, the younger man was ready. However he mentioned he needed to speak to me, and I mentioned I couldn’t in the intervening time. He spoke to my father, handed him a letter, a bracelet and a teddy bear. To date, so regular, as a result of it’s one thing that occurs. I even prefer it, I like to get items. Then I learn within the letter that he was in love with me as a person since 2020, that he met me in Abu Dhabi. We went to perform a little research. This younger man, on his social community, it was written that I used to be his spouse, that he lived in such and such a rustic and was going to maneuver to [my hometown] Varginha [Minas Gerais, Brazil]. There was an image of a teddy bear, everybody in my household, saying, ‘That is Marcelo, that is Arthur, that is Mirelly, that is Amanda, my spouse’. I had some loopy enterprise.”

If the items weren’t sufficient, the stalker continued his pursuit of Ribas all through the week. Miraculously, the person snuck his well past UFC safety within the UFC Efficiency Institute (P.I.) throughout the road from the UFC APEX. A method or one other, he was decided to maintain getting the eye of his “spouse.”

Allegedly additionally a fighter as soon as recognized, the UFC stored watch of one-half of the UFC Vegas 89 fundamental occasion from the person to make sure this was the top of the saga.

“The opposite day, this citizen managed to get into the P.I., I don’t understand how, and he was telling people who I used to be his spouse,” Ribas laughed. “[My manager] Alex [Davis] discovered about it first, then he informed me. Then he notified the UFC and so they left a safety guard with me 24 hours a day to be much more protected. Plainly they discovered that he’s a fighter, and he couldn’t combat in an occasion as a result of he had taken a sword (laughs).”

Sadly for Ribas, there wasn’t a cheerful ending to her UFC Vegas 89 story. The massive fundamental occasion battle towards the previous strawweight champion Namajunas noticed Ribas come up quick through a unanimous resolution. The Brazilian has now alternated wins and losses in her final seven fights (13-5 general) since her first profession loss to Marina Rodriguez in January 2021. Coincidentally, the Rodriguez loss got here proper after Ribas defeated VanZant and met the stalker. This man doesn’t sound like superb luck.

Ribas is unsurprisingly sport about the entire incident in hindsight. As one of many extra glad and constructive personalities in your entire sport, it definitely makes for fairly the reminiscence and was fortunately nothing overly worrisome or harmful.

“To complete this week that I began single, I went ‘relationship,’ I bought ‘engaged’ and ‘married,’ I ‘separated,’ too,” Ribas joked. “As a result of they researched and noticed that he had posted on his social networks that he’s touring to a different metropolis, that we have been separated, however that he wished me all of the luck on the earth (laughs). It was probably the most surprising ‘relationship’ I’ve ever had.”

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