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Former UFC fighter reveals past as sex worker to fund MMA career

UFC veteran Yoshinori Horie announced on social media that he once moonlighted as a sex worker in order to fund his mixed martial arts career.

Horie, who suffered a head-kick TKO loss to Hakeem Dawodu in his lone UFC outing in 2019, revealed the news on Christmas Day, adding that he would perform sexual acts on men in exchange for payment.

“Five years ago, when I was with a friend, I was told that I could get money just by handjob in Shibuya, but I followed him, but I thought it was like that AV,” Horie stated on Twitter (via Google translate).