ASA league president Alexei Yatsenko said the organization would work with fans to avoid a repeat of the post-fight incident. Fariduna Odilova from Tajikistan with a Russian Mikhail Mokhnatkin at the ACA 168 tournament.
Mokhnatkin lost ahead of schedule to Odilov at a tournament in Moscow. After the fight, the Russian went to the room under the stands and his team started throwing bottles from the stands. Odilov apologized for his fans who threw bottles at Mokhnatkin’s second Magomed Magomedov.
— There were some moments in the octagon, but no one crossed the red line. Yes, there were emotions, but without transition. The fan reaction makes it difficult to punish the fighters. The fan culture didn’t make me happy either. But to punish one of the team members for this… Fighters are disciplined people. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to live in the diet, they wouldn’t be able to fit into the weight categories. For all their influence on the masses, not all of them can immediately stop what is happening without their knowledge and consent. I don’t think anyone on the teams will be punished because of this.
The security was quite sufficient, it did its job. I don’t think we need to put a security guard near every fan. This is not a concentration camp or a camp. We have to work with the fans. The fact is that we are all at a sports festival. And that needs to be conveyed to people. And we will think about certain events to promote a culture of pain,” reports the correspondent of , reporting Yatsenko’s words.
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