Bi Nguyen revealed particulars relating to an uncomfortable run-in she had with blended martial arts coach Eric Albarracin at a Las Vegas hotspot.
‘Killer Bee’ lately made her skilled boxing debut beneath the Gamebred Boxing banner final month, securing a win over Andy Nguyen. Previous to that, Bi Nguyen competed within the Asia-based promotion ONE Championship and squared off with among the group’s high stars, together with Stamp Fairtex.
On Wednesday, Bi Nguyen made an in-studio look on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani to debate her time with ONE, her look on the long-running actuality sequence Survivor, and her plans for the long run. Throughout their dialog, Nguyen revealed that Eric Albarracin, the coach of former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo and middleweight contender Paulo Costa, touched her inappropriately whereas at a nightclub. “I’ve had run-ins with that man,” Nguyen mentioned earlier than elaborating on her remark.
“We don’t have any relationship now, however I’ve had a foul run-in with him in Vegas for certain,” Nguyen continued.
“He was drunk. We had been at a membership. We had been at Hakkasan collectively and he grabbed my arm after which he like, touched my butt,” Nguyen revealed. “And I used to be like, ‘Ought to I do one thing?’ And I didn’t, however I’m all the way down to be cool with him, however that was a foul run-in with him.”
Albarracin, identified by many as ‘Captain Eric’, is a retired American wrestler who captured a silver medal on the Pan American Championships and the Navy World Wrestling Championships. He beforehand appeared as a coach on The Final Fighter: Brazil 2 and The Final Fighter: Brazil 3.
Bi Nguyen Transitions from Blended Martial Artist to Fight Sports activities Administration
Whereas Bi Nguyen intends on persevering with her fight sports activities profession on a restricted foundation, together with a possible foray into bare-knuckle MMA, ‘Killer Bee’ is at present transitioning into fight sports activities administration full-time.
“I represented myself for many of my profession after I had one supervisor and I allow them to go and I represented myself,” Nguyen mentioned. “I received myself on TV. I received myself on every kind of various issues that quite a lot of fighters don’t take into consideration. I knew if I might do it myself, I might do it significantly better for fighters. And in direction of the tip, my report wasn’t going so effectively and I used to be nonetheless making extra money and doing issues exterior than any person who’s 6-0 like Erin Blanchfield. So I used to be like, if I can do this with my profession, I can do far more with theirs.”
