The women’s heavyweight division has been much talked about recently, especially after this past Saturday when the number 1 heavyweight fighter in the world Gabi Garcia defeated Yumiko Hotta via a round one TKO. The video of the “fight” went viral across the internet for all the wrong reasons.

31 year old Gabi Garcia (4-0-0) is a Brazilian heavyweight fighter who is signed to the promotion RIZIN FF (the former owners of PRIDE FC). She is 6″2 foot tall and walks around at roughly 245 pounds. This past Saturday she faced a 49 year old retired pro-wrestler named Yumiko Hotta, who is 5″6 foot tall. Hotta did not cut any weight for the fight and came in at 171 pounds, whilst Garcia cut from 245 to 209 pounds. The fight was a complete beat down and has been going viral over the weekend, with fans commenting on how uncomfortable they felt watching it claiming it should be “illegal” to put on such a fight and saying Garcia should have refused to take it.

25 year old Belarus beauty Katya Kavaleva, who trains with top MMA team the Blackzilians was not happy with the choice of opponent. She promises Garcia would stand “no chance” against her, and says “none of her fights have been good and I’ll just crush her“. Kavaleva stand at 6″5 ft tall and is a kickboxing world champion, as well as a seasoned champion in karate and taekwondo. She claims that Gabi Garcia has been avoiding her for a long time, suggesting the Brazilian fears her.

Last night Garcia and Kavaleva took part in a heated exchange on social media, which ended in Garcia deciding to block the kickboxing beauty on Instagram according to Kavaleva’s representative. Garcia quickly responded on Twitter, accusing Kavaleva’s team of lying “I no blocked her, this is not true” followed by a picture showing she was not currently blocked.

It now turns out Gabi Garcia had indeed blocked Kavaleva on Instagram, but quickly unblocked once the media became aware of the situation in order to save face. Kavaleva tweeted out to Garcia after the accusation saying “stop with the bs guys I was blocked last night and so was my manager and for 6 months rizin all excuses“. As well as pointing out a picture she had posted on her Instagram page, which indeed shows she was blocked.

It appears Gabi Garcia did indeed block the 6″5 ft kickboxing world champion on Instagram. The fact that she very quickly unblocked her and even tweeted saying it hadn’t happened raises a lot of questions. Is the Brazilian RIZIN FF heavyweight indeed fearful of the 6″5ft kickboxing world champion? Take a look at Kavaleva’s evidence below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

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