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UFC champ Jessica Andrade details gunpoint mugging, doesn’t go out late at night anymore

A scary mugging incident last week left the new UFC strawweight champion, Jessica Andrade, traumatized after she and her wife, Fernanda Gomes, were robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In an interview with ESPN Brasil, ‘Bate-Estaca’ described in detail all the events that occured that night, which began when she and Gomes were approached by two men on a motorcycle while the couple waited in their car for a red sign to turn green.

“The sign turned red and I slowed down.” Jessica began. “I noticed a motorcycle and when I realized, he was already driving the wrong way.