Bi Nguyen has revealed details of her uncomfortable encounter with mixed martial arts coach Eric Albarracin at a Las Vegas hotspot.
‘Killer Bee’ recently made her professional boxing debut under the Gamebred Boxing banner last month, picking up a win over Andy Nguyen. Prior to that, Bi Nguyen competed for the Asia-based ONE promotion and feuded with some of the organization’s top stars, including Stamp Fairtex.
On Wednesday, Bi Nguyen appeared in the studio at MMA watch With Ariel Helwani to discuss her time with ONE, her appearance on the long-running reality series Survivor, and her plans for the future. During their conversation, Nguyen revealed that Eric Albarracin, the former trainer of AFC Champions Henry Cejudo and middleweight contender Paulo Costa, had inappropriately touched her while in a nightclub. “I’ve gotten into arguments with this guy,” Nguyen said, before elaborating on her comment.
“We don’t have any relationship now, but I definitely had a bad encounter with him in Vegas,” Nguyen continued.
“He was drunk. We were at a club. We were in Hakkasan together and he grabbed my arm and then he’s like, touch my ass,” Nguyen revealed. And I said, “Should I do something?” And I didn’t do it, but I feel good about him, but it was a bad encounter with him.”
Albarracín, known to many as “Captain Eric”, is a retired American wrestler who earned silver at the Pan American Championships and World Military Wrestling Championships. He previously appeared as a trainer in The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 2 and The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3.
Bi Nguyen transitions from mixed martial arts to combat sports management
While Bi Nguyen intends to continue her combat sports career on a limited basis, including a potential foray into nude MMA, “Killer Bee” is currently transitioning into managing combat sports full time.
“For most of my career I’ve represented myself after I had one manager and I let them go and I represented myself,” said Nguyen. “I got myself into TV. I got into all sorts of different things that a lot of fighters don’t think of. I knew if I could do it for myself, I could do it better for the fighters. In the end, my record wasn’t going well and I wasn’t I still make more money and do things overseas than a 6-0 guy like Erin Blanchfield. So I was like, if I can do that with my career, I can do more with their lives.”