Claire Ruiz has been in the news quite a bit recently for a variety of reasons. She appeared on the cover of People magazine, wearing an eye patch and sash, which are illegal according to Philippine law according to IFPIA (in Spanish). She was also the target of several death threats via emails and on the phone. As you can see this kind of notoriety is not surprising for someone who has made her fair share of controversial comments on her social media sites, most notably on her now-retired MySpace page. Her association with MMA and Bellator is somewhat controversial as she refers to them as her “mates,” however, she does say that they are not exactly her type of mixed martial arts athletes.
Claire Ruiz was born in Manila, Philippines and is of Filipino and Chinese descent. She says that her parents are Filipino and Chinese, and that she is half Japanese. According to her bio on her MySpace page, Claire Ruiz was born in Los Angeles, California. Her exact birth date is not known. She did tell a friend that she was eight years old when her parents had their first child, and that she moved to Brisbane, Australia when they had that first child. This would place her birth somewhere between 1998 and 2021, although this could change depending upon what you read about her.
Claire Ruiz has brown hair and green eyes. She stands at 180 centimeters and is just under five feet tall. Claire Ruiz was listed as a junior bantamweight at the US Olympic Training Center in Los Angeles in 2021. According to her bio on her MySpace page, she is now a senior martial artist with a black belt. Her current partner is Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner Rogusto Mendoza. This makes her legally a US citizen by virtue of being a resident of the USA where she has been training for the past ten years.