Vice President of the ASA League Aslanabek Badaev commented in an interview with on the episode of the ear injury of Brazilian Vinicius Cruz during a fight against Edil Esengulov.
At the ACA 166 tournament in St. Petersburg, a fighter from Kyrgyzstan, Edil Esengulov, injured a Brazilian opponent in the ear, which led to the fight being stopped due to profuse bleeding from Cruz. The stoppage of the fight made Esengulov the winner and took him to the semi-finals of the ACA Middleweight Grand Prix.
– We have this under control. I talked to him (Cruz) – the guy was hysterical. He was against this ruling. He says nothing bad happened. And the battle could continue. He refused hospitalization, he was given first aid and that was it. Our doctors tried to persuade him for an hour, but he never agreed to hospitalization, he said that it was just a scratch, that from the outside it looked hard, but, like he says it himself, “it was a big mistake on the part of the doctor, who deprived me of hope… of dreams… of luck.”
He believed he could turn the tide of the fight in the following rounds, although he desperately lost three rounds (the fight was stopped in the first minute of the fourth round – Note “”). And none of our means of persuasion – we cannot physically force a person – helped,” Badaev told .
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Source : MatchTV
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