UFC fighter Julian Erosa has called out notorious swimmer and transgender athlete Leah Thomas, encouraging the college athlete to become a mixed martial arts fighter so they can fight.
Following his first round submission victory, UFC Vegas 89, Erosa was asked by a reporter to explain the “stupid call” the fighter had hinted at. A “callout” is when a fighter names an opponent they want to fight in the near future after a victory.
Elosa took the opportunity to challenge Thomas, a transgender athlete, to become a mixed martial arts fighter.
“I was going to say I don’t like cheaters. I don’t know how you guys feel about this whole situation, but I don’t like cheaters, so I’m going to call out Leah Thomas. I wanted to do that,” Erosa said in a statement. Press conference.
“I wanted to encourage her to go from women’s swimming to women’s mixed martial arts, or I wanted to encourage him to go from women’s swimming to women’s MMA, so I could be a woman and get that guy’s ass. I’m going to defeat him.”
Although Thomas is known for identifying as female and competing in women’s swimming after years of competing in men’s competition, he was not the only transgender athlete named by Erosa.
“The world we live in is just… You know there’s no common sense anymore… I just don’t agree with the men in women’s sports, you know? Even the whole Fallon Fox thing. … These are guys who are fighting in women’s MMA and getting knocked out. That’s a bad way to look at it.”
Although Fox was born male, he was a martial artist who fought six women. 2012 and 2014, won 5 races. In his second fight, he brutally knocked out the woman in 39 seconds. In his final battle he reportedly broken opponent’s skull.
Erosa was asked by the same reporter if there were any instances where he thought it made sense for male athletes to compete against women.
“Absolutely not,” the fighter quickly replied. “There’s nothing you can do, there’s nothing you can do to make the bones smaller. There’s nothing you can do in that sense, so the proof is in the pudding,” he said of Thomas. .
according to basically sportsThomas ranked 65th in the country in the 500-yard freestyle as a male, but the following year he was ranked first as a female.
He also placed 554th in the men’s 200-yard freestyle and fifth among women.
“I’m not the smartest crayon, but even if I don’t know anything, I can tell you it’s not fair.”
Elosa concluded her statement by alluding to the fact that she believes women’s sports will become obsolete if they continue to allow women to compete with men.
“What’s so interesting to me is that as women fight for their own space, trans women also fight to be included in that space. They’re just men, and there are hundreds of them in this sport. Men will participate, but after that it becomes a different sport.”A man’s sport. ”
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