“I am proud of my Russian culture, but running around with a flag and shouting at it, in my opinion, is stupid. Since I turned professional, I have never taken out a flag, and here’s why.
When I played for the national team, it was a great honor for me to compete under the Russian flag, because I represented Russia. Now I’m fighting for money and I think it’s inappropriate. I am not fighting for Russia, nor for the Orthodox people. I represent the Russians, but I do not fight for them. I don’t want to be hypocritical, I’m fighting for money. When they stop paying me, I’ll stop fighting. So I don’t see the point in going out with a flag.
I will say more. Perhaps if I was specifically forbidden from going out with the Russian flag, I might have done it on principle, to express my position. But since everyone was banned, then why? Everyone already knows that I’m Russian. When they see the number of letters in my name, they are already afraid, as if it were some kind of spell,” Borshchev said in an interview with the Ushataika channel.
- Russian fighter Borshchev beat Haysaer at UFC Vegas 73
Source: Sport
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