A bizarre incident happened during the BKFC 76 pre-fight face-off between Mariya Apagova and Jessica Eye.
During the face-off, Apagova kissed her opponent, Eye.
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Eye, who is a regular MMA fighter, is making her bare-knuckle debut against former UFC fighter Apagova in Fort Worth, Texas.
During the face-off, it appeared that Apagova planted a non-consensual kiss on the lips of her opponent, leaving everyone, including Eye, stunned.
“So now that I’ve got to bleach my lips from those nasty f*cking lips that touched me, I mean, ew, ew,” Eye said in her Instagram story. “It’s f*cking weird. I mean, we’re fighters.
“We’re supposed to face off like that. But you don’t kiss me, weirdo. You’re weird. It ain’t going to take me out of my game. It’s just going to make me beat your ass more.”
It seems Eye is geared up for the fight and she wants to prove a point.
In a separate post, she wrote: “You disrespected a warrior. Now you’re just fuel for the fire that’s about to burn your name.”