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UFC vet Pereira: My coach ‘kicked me out of the team’ after I told him I was pregnant with his baby

The past few months have been rough for former UFC strawweight Viviane Pereira. In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, the 27-year-old revealed she was kicked off her team after informing her coach that she was pregnant with his child.

The man in question is Marcos Batista, who runs the Dragon Kombat team in Fortaleza.

“I didn’t expect this pregnancy. When I told [Batista] I was pregnant, he said right off the bat he didn’t want it and blocked us from everything, kicked me out of the team. He’s still avoiding judicial intimations, not showing up in court.