Watch Valerie Loureda’s sexy dance after KO win over Tara Graff at Bellator 243 after rival accused her of ‘selling sex’
VALERIE LOUREDA broke into a sexy dance to celebrate a thumping KO victory at Bellator 243.
The American star obliterated Tara Graff with a series of heavy blows to secure a second-round win in Connecticut on Friday night.
And she used the moment in the spotlight to hit back at critics, including one MMA rival accusing her of “selling sex” to get male followers, being a “striptease” and a bad role model for young girls hoping to break into the sport.
Loureda regularly takes to Instagram to show off her body in bikinis and refuses to accept she should do otherwise, regardless of her position or profession.
So when she completed her demolition job against Graff with a devastating combination of punches to go 3-0 in MMA, the 22-year-old could not resist the cheeky moves to stick it to the haters.
Loureda shared the clip showing the shot which took Graff down and then the finishing blows followed by her suggestive, twirling dance on Instagram.
She captioned the post: “3-0! Wear your heels, put on your lashes, spar hard in the morning, make your tik toks, and don’t let ANYONE tell you what you can or can’t be. -xoxo, V”
Before the behind-closed-doors bout, Loureda defended herself for working hard to get into the shape she is in and insisted people are wrong to underestimate her ability inside the Octagon because of her bikini-clad shots on social media.
So after her victory she took to social media again with a black-and-white picture with her straps around her fists and mocked: “Just an IG [Instagram] model.”
And Loureda was typically honest and uncompromising in her post-fight press conference, blasting enemy Graff.
The Bellator fan favourite said: “I’m still gonna post TikToks. I don’t care what anybody says. I waited until the chance I got to fight, when I was healthy, so I could shut her mouth.
“Let me tell you something. This girl, every single day of quarantine, I thought about her face, the moment I get to punch her like that. Extremely necessary like Jorge [Masvidal] would tell me. I don’t care if there’s one second left, I hit her 50 million times so she can’t get up.
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“I’m a master in taekwondo. I’ve always been professional, until this girl. I can’t be professional with that girl, when you’re telling me I’m being demoralising to the sport.
“Well you know what? Look at all the girls that look like me, who dance, who wanna defend themselves, who are now gonna be in MMA because I’m an inspiration to them and they’re not scared. That’s what I stand for, not what she does.”
Loureda finished by promising to celebrate her win in style by “putting on a pretty outfit, getting drunk and taking pictures with my sister”.