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Julian Marquez defends verbal harasser after he begged for forgiveness online after his family received threats
Seems like things didn’t go down well for Julian Marquez’s online heckler, who hurled a series of hateful comments toward the fighter following his loss this weekend. Marquez lost to Gregory Rodrigues at UFC Austin via a brutal knockout that annoyed the fan.
Tyler, the fan lashed out at Marquez in a profane thread of rant, which the Cuban took the liberty of sharing the screenshots on his social media handles. In the thread, it is evident that the fan named Tyler verbally eviscerated the fighter for getting knocked out. He even made fun of Marquez by referencing Miley Cyrus, his crush. Tyler did not hold back and wrote :
“This is part of being a fighter This kid lost money betting on me and is super upset 😂.”
Fans of Marquez joined forces to shut down the heckler, even going an extent further by laying out threats to his family.
Marquez emerged as the bigger man in the exchange when a visibly frightened and agitated Tyler reached out to him for help. Fans of the Cuban fighter started abusing Tyler, even laying out death threats for his conversations with the fighter.
Later Tyler messaged Marquez and asked him to end everything. In the new screenshots that Marquez shared, Tyler can be seen complaining about the fighter for sending his fans to give him death threats.
Marquez urged his fans to stop the verbal onslaught, and wrote, ”Can you guys please stop sending threats to Tyler. He obviously didn’t mean it.”
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