"As soon as I turned 16, people started trying to see who slept with me first."
Nadia Sapphire from Cardiff entered wrestling at the age of 14. At the age of 15, he developed a close relationship with an older wrestler. When she turned 16, she was worried about continuing her training in Wales.
Nadia is one of the few female wrestlers to speak out against the exploitation of women in the industry. Alex Davies Jones, a wrestling fan and MP from the Pontipred area of the UK, has launched a parliamentary inquiry into the lack of legislation in the field.
"I felt special." "Obviously I was harassed when I think about that time," says Nadia. And I was prepared for that. "
"A lot of the boys in Wales were texting me at the time," she says. I felt very special, I felt like people were loving me. '
Nadia, from Cardiff, is now 29 years old. She has been interested in wrestling since childhood and wanted to be the best wrestler in Britain. When he started going to a training school, he started getting a lot of messages from fellow wrestlers. Some of them were his age, but some of the messengers were ten to fifteen years older than him. He says that because of his lack of self-confidence, at first he liked the attention of so many boys, but after having 'sex' with a wrestler over the age of one, he began to feel ashamed of his reputation.
"Even though I was young, I was called 'ring rat', a term often used in wrestling ..." she says.
Ring rate is a derogatory term used especially for young women who participate in wrestling events in order to have sex with other wrestlers. Nadia says she felt like she couldn't talk to anyone about it.
"I couldn't talk to my mother because she had to stop wrestling. And I didn't want to tell the wrestling world that I was being called the Ring Rate, lest they believe it. "
Nadia is one of the women wrestlers who has taken part in the 'Speaking Out' campaign launched this winter. The campaign is being called the Me Too Movement of the Wrestling World and many people are expressing their views online.
Alex Davies Jones says he read these horror stories on social media and thought he should use his position to help. He has now launched a parliamentary inquiry into how to make the sector better and safer.
"It's very worrying," she says. In some stories, 13- to 14-year-old girls who want to wrestle have received threats of rape and sexual assault. "We've heard stories of male wrestlers competing over which of them will end the virginity of a female wrestler first. These are terrible stories. "
A safe place for Nadia was a training school in Sweden where she enrolled at the age of 16. Now she's back in Wales, but she's still 'nervous' while training there.
"My wrestling career is almost over," she says. I will not be able to get where I wanted to be. But if my talk can help girls who want to wrestle in the future and make a difference, I will definitely talk about it. "
