“My relatives asked me not to touch it.” Hadis Ibragimov – about a fight involving Zalimkhan Yusupov

Russian MMA fighter Hadith Ibragimov (12-4 in MMA) commented on a video of a mass brawl in Makhachkala involving fellow fighter Zalimkhan Yusupov. As fighter Maxim Divnich wrote on his Telegram channel, the fight could have taken place due to Yusupov’s conflict with Ibragimov on the set of a popular fight show on YouTube.

— If in a word, I can say it. There are people who are ready for the hype, who you can hype on, and who hype themselves. And there are people who can’t stand it and don’t make noise and touch anyone. But, if you touch them, there may not always be a good ending. I refer to the second. There will soon be a new issue, which shows that [Зелимхан] I allowed myself too much. I had already met and discussed with him before. We talked without cameras, it seems to me that men shouldn’t solve their problems on camera.

From what I heard, what was on the video happened a few days ago, maybe even a day. At that time I was in St. Petersburg. I have family all over Russia. After the first conflict, they told me “he can take care of himself, he allows himself a lot of superfluous things”. I said no, I said that my relatives had asked me not to touch it. But myself, I don’t have to act, I myself am a good person and good people always have support. I cannot say that it is necessary to do so. Everyone has their choice [Зелимхан] also made his choice. And these are the consequences that happened,” Ibragimov told .

The fighter also pointed out that Zalimkhan Yusupov, who is featured in the video, is the namesake and namesake of Zalimkhan Yusupov, a participant in the 2012 Olympics. Some publications confused the two athletes with the same person. Read Ibragimov’s full monologue on later Wednesday.