Kazakhstan representative performing at UFC Maria Agapova In an interview with , she shared details about a suspicious offer to star in a clothing commercial.
Earlier on her social networks, the 27-year-old athlete said that one of her acquaintances tried to persuade her to come to New York to take part in an advertising campaign for leather clothing. Agapova herself believed that she was being encouraged to commit illegal actions, since she could not be told the exact conditions of cooperation. “People exploit me … including trying to sell me as a sex slave behind my back,” the athlete wrote on her social networks in May this year. At the UFC tournament in Denver on July 13, Agapova is expected to fight with Brazilian Luana Santos.
— You wrote a scary message on your social networks, later specifying that two of your acquaintances had invited you to another city to participate in a strange shooting of leather clothes. How did it end?
“They sent me a thousand dollars for tickets, and I took them for myself, and that’s it.” But they lured me, they wanted me to go to New York with them, they talked total nonsense. One of them wrote: “I know Tyra Banks, you should come to New York and go to her office.” I say what! What is Tyra Banks like? What kind of nonsense is this?!” I don’t know who they thought I was, they thought I was maybe five years old and wouldn’t be able to understand it or something. In general, they just lured me. When I asked the name of the company or the names of other models who work for them, he just couldn’t answer adequately, he told me nonsense. It’s clear that this is a scam. They wanted to lure me somewhere in New York and even sent me a thousand dollars so that I would believe them. But I’m not that stupid, so I took a thousand dollars and that was it.
— Did they write anything else after that?
“My friend, who initially got me into it, started saying, ‘Oh, how can you think that about me?!’ Yeah, I never have!.. Usually, you know, it’s disrespectful! That’s it, you’re not my friend anymore. I think, ‘Hmm, disrespectful…’ but oh well.
— How much is a thousand dollars worth in America if you live the life of an MMA fighter who prepares for a fight, but doesn’t show up?
“If the UFC sends food, and they send both food and vitamins, I think a thousand dollars will be enough for about a month,” Agapova told .
Agapova made her UFC debut in June 2020, fighting five times and winning two.
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