UFC strawweight Amanda Ribas has noble plans for her most recent UFC Performance of the Night bonus.
Ribas (12-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC) recently added to her highlight reel by stopping Luana Pinheiro at UFC Fight Night 232 with a furious flurry of strikes that began with a beautiful wheel kick. The finishing sequence earned her the second $50,000 bonus of her UFC tenure, and she plans to use that money to accelerate a plan to build a local institute for local youth to learn martial arts and stay away from bad influences on the street.
“I think the children that doesn’t have nothing to do, they put this energy into bad things,” Ribas recently told MMA Junkie. “So, this new gym will have MMA fights, jiu jitsu, some games to learn. Some English classes, Portugese classes in the afternoon for them when they don’t have nothing, so they don’t pass the time in the streets.
