LAS VEGAS—Tracy Cortez talks to the media following her large win at UFC 317, together with why she’s not completely happy along with her efficiency, her post-fight message of assist for the Mexican neighborhood amid ongoing ICE raids, the well being points which have restricted her in-cage appearances, and extra.
“A variety of my followers are Mexicans,” Cortez mentioned. “It’s the Latin neighborhood, it’s somebody that I symbolize very a lot to my core and I feel it might be virtually coward-like if I didn’t converse on one thing. I need the assist from what I name mi gente, la raza, and I symbolize the Mexican flag in addition to the U.S. flag and I feel it’s solely proper for me to talk on it. I haven’t been in a position to as a result of I’ve been very centered on this struggle and I used to be simply ready for the proper alternative and I felt it in my coronary heart.
“I simply need everybody to know I don’t know if I’m certified to talk on such a delicate subject, however nonetheless, I might be a voice and I’m right here.”
Watch Cortez’s full post-fight media scrum above.
