Ukraine’s Maryna Moroz gives emotional interview after UFC 272 victory

Women’s flyweight star Maryna Moroz gave an emotional post-fight interview about how worried she is for her friends and family in Ukraine, following her victory on the preliminary card at UFC 272. 

The Ukrainian fighter fought Kazakhstan’s Mariya Agapova in the first contest of the night and secured an outstanding second-round stoppage thanks to an arm-triangle choke. 

After the fight, Moroz was visibly emotional and took to the microphone to address the crowd. 

“My family is in Ukraine,” she said. “I had a hard week. I worried, I cried, because my family is right now in a bad situation.

“Thank you to everyone who messaged me, supported me, because this week was hard for me. I wanted to cry because of this war my country is in.

“I have a lot of pressure. All this week I feel nervous, I cried. I tried to focus. Many people don’t know, but it was really hard for me. I see in Ukraine how terrible the situation is. It was really my heart almost crying. But I did it. I focused and I did fight.”

Moroz also stressed that many of her friends in Ukraine have died already and that she was worried for her mother’s safety. 

“I’m nervous about my mother,” she stressed. “I don’t want Russian people to come and kill my family, because many of my friends have died right now.”

Powerful words from an emotional Maryna Moroz competing in incredibly tough circumstances