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Amanda Ribas scored a third round TKO victory over Luana Pinheiro at UFC Fight Night 232, picking up a $50,000 Performance Of The Night bonus in the process.
While every fighter uses their bonus money in different ways, Ribas plans to use hers to help the youth of Brazil.
“I think the children that doesn’t have nothing to do, they put this energy into bad things,” Ribas recently told MMA Junkie. “So, this new gym will have MMA fights, jiu jitsu, some games to learn. Some English classes, Portugese classes in the afternoon for them when they don’t have nothing, so they don’t pass the time in the streets. I have the project all here in my mind. After school, they come here and do something and put their energy here, and not in the streets.”
Ribas’ building will be constructed across the street from her family’s gym, which is located in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The UFC star wants to help impact the youth of Brazil in the same way that her father and mother did.
“For me, I see my Dad, I want to do as my Dad, or as my Mom,” Ribas said. “They don’t have this. So who do they put as the idol in their mind? Like, ‘When I grow up I want to be like this guy.’ The bad guy in the street who sell drugs, who sells something bad.
“I want to put this institute here, this gym here, so they can look at me and say, ‘I want to be as Amanda Ribas, because she is from here, Varginha, she trains here in my neighborhood, and she conquered the world. She buy a gym, she buy a house, she buy everything with a good vibe.’ Even the children that won’t be athletes, if they come here and study or do something to get focus, to get discipline to be a good person in the future.”
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