BKFC fighter Tai Emery skyrocketed to viral stardom with a highlight-reel knockout and a very unorthodox post-fight celebration. Emery flashed the audience at BKFC Thailand after knocking out Rung-Arun Khunchai, and not everyone was impressed. Britain Hart, the BKFC strawweight champ, felt that the celebration was a “slap in the face to real, hardworking fighters”. Emery fired back in a recent interview with MMAFighting.
“Just shut the f*** up! Look away [if you don’t like it]. I’m a hard worker. I am one of the hardest workers there is. I had 10 years as a bloody electrician. Look up the work. B****, have you even dug a trench before? Dig some trenches, go f****** crawl through some ceilings, run a man’s world, then become a pro f****** football player that becomes the best in the world at tackling, and then comes to your sport and f****** has a good go?
Tai Emery Fires Back at Britain Hart After Viral Flashing Incident: “Shut the F*** Up!”
Anyone that wants to say that I’m not hard working, please. My resume speaks for itself, and my hard work speaks it for itself. I shouldn’t even have to say this.”
Emery continued, pointing out that while she might not be everyone’s cup of tea, she’s far from disrespecting women or the sport. Emery stated that she has dedicated her life to not fitting stereotypes.
“One thing I’ve learned in this sport is you can win a championship and within 10 seconds, somebody is going to be jumping on that train — [sometimes] to just give their opinion like it [has] worth, and guess what?
It does have worth because it’s an opinion and everyone is allowed to have one. Someone’s going to feel disrespected, someone is going to feel respected by it. Some will be liberated by it, other people will feel like, ‘Oh, what has she done to women?’
I’ve dedicated my entire life as a woman to not fit a stereotype and just be myself. I was literally the first female electrical contractor, I’m the first female thermographer, I’ve dominated a male’s world.
How can anybody say I would do something to just disrespect women, or disrespect other hard-working fighters when I’ve literally lived on concrete, eaten a cup of rice and one egg a day in a Muay Thai gym in f****** Thailand in the jungle. Like, disrespect what Britain Hart? What the hell?”
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