Olympic champion Svetlana Jourova in a conversation with , she expressed doubts that Russian fighters from the Absolute Fighting Championship (CFU ) will be able to participate in fights under the national flag.
Former UFC head Dana White declared that promoted fighters would once again be allowed to participate in fights with their country’s flags.
— I’m not really sure this will happen. I don’t know how well documented this decision will be. It is possible to go out under the Russian flag. Are your opponents ready? Are the fans ready? Will there be demonstrations or not?
— There does not seem to be such radicalism in the fighting community.
— Well, they don’t have strong ties to the country either. They have their own nicknames, their own teams. They are more interested in that than in the country. But when major fights were broadcast around the world, there were flags and they were presented as “a fighter from Russia.” If I’m not mistaken, Khabib Nurmagomedov often flew the Dagestan flag, but he was presented as a Russian fighter.
Honestly, I don’t want to believe words, I want to believe actions. We saw how the tennis federation behaved. They did not negotiate, but simply fined Wimbledon.
There are competitions in which our athletes compete under their own flag, but Western propaganda ensures that information about this does not appear anywhere. Is the fighting community ready for a big fight involving a Russian to be completely blocked and not reported in the press because there were Russian flags? And if the Russian wins, information about it will be blocked 100%. They will do everything to prevent this from happening,” Zhurova told .
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