A smiling, charismatic and unfiltered woman. She is the mother of three children, judoka and international referee. This is Katty Hurtado; the example to follow of the Ecuadorian fighter Michael Morales.
For Katty Hurtado There are no limits in sport and that is what he has taught his children, who have followed in his footsteps at a professional level.
At seven years old, the native of El Triunfo, province of Guayas, met judo and fell in love with the Japanese martial art.
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The Ecuadorian says that her brother Miguel practiced sports and that is why she and her sister also decided to get involved. The goal was compete across the country. So it was.
The Hurtado Torres sisters had potential. Only they trained two weeks and they were summoned to participate in a tournament in the province of Chimborazo.
From that moment, judo became the family sport. Although with constant withdrawals and returns, at least for Katty Hurtado.
This is because she became a mother three times, “when I was almost 20 years old I had Michael, I resumed judo but returned to the two years to get pregnant. That was my stage of para, every two years ”.
Although her job as an international judo referee never left her. That’s why, in reality, he didn’t completely withdraw from the sport. It’s more, in 2019 he returned to competitions.
“Without training for a single day, I had to fight with my sister and against four other girls. AND I was back in first place“. This was in the National Championship.
This year, Katty Hurtado climbed back to the top of the podium after reaching the gold medal in the Pan American Judo Cup, in Guayaquil.
But due to her occupations, her work in the El Oro Sports Federation, the judoka only it was prepared three days before.
Everyone was surprised, but congratulated her too. “You have to keep training, if you trained you would be much better, the coach tells me. But he has done well for me ”.
Martial arts and their children
Katty Hurtado always instilled in them the discipline, through sportto their sons: Michael, Allan and Victor.
Since childhood, the three they practiced judo when their mom was a coach in the Pasaje canton, province of El Oro. But over the years, each one leaned towards new disciplines.
“The most beautiful thing that sport has given me are my children.”
Katty Hurtado, Ecuadorian judoka.
In the case of Michael Morales, his first son, “he wanted contact sports, but he didn’t want judo. When he was 17 years old I I wanted to put him in the navy, the police, to the military. I wanted to see him uniformed and pretty”.
But that didn’t happen. The desire to reach the largest mixed martial arts company in the world was greater than his mother’s wishes.
Although she has a smile that always supported him, despite the fact that at first she did not know that he trained in mixed martial arts (MMA). It was a secret between the fighter and his father.
Michael Morales’ first fight He was in an octagon in Santa Rosa and went to see him. From the stands, Katty Hurtado yelled at her son judo and Olympic wrestling techniques for her to apply at that moment. And she won.
In his first victory received $30 and $20 went to his father. He gave her for food. Katty Hurtado proudly tells that her son was always like that. Even now, she’s already a UFC fighter.
That affection, trust and love for his mother is reflected in every step of Michael Morales. For example, Katty Hurtado says that their relationship is so close that together They speak from the rivals they are going to face to their girlfriends.
Yes. They analyze the rivals of the 24-year-old fighter. They do it through calls, videos and other ways, despite the fact that she is in Ecuador and he is in Mexico. they talk to thoroughly study opponents of the tricolor
The judoka describes that her son tells her “watch the videos of the fighterfrom its inception to the present. So I see something that can be used against her or in her favor. This is how we have worked since he was fighting.”
Before the victory of Michael Morales, against Max Griffin, was no exception. Katty Hurtado tells PRIMICIAS that “he did not do any Olympic wrestling, more than the latest technique” because the American could counterattack him. So he had a different strategy.
And won. Michael Morales achieved his third consecutive win in the UFC. Her mother claims to be happy for what one of her children is achieving.
Katty Hurtado only needs to see Michael Morales live in a UFC fight. She dreams of having the American visa for the next official fight and surprise travel.
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