Promoter Armen Ghulyan, in a conversation with , assessed the consequences of the main fight of the UFC 229 tournament between Khabib Nurmagomedov And Conor McGregor as well as the Russian fighter’s reaction to what is happening.
On October 6, 2018, Nurmagomedov defended the UFC lightweight championship belt, forcing McGregor to submit in the fourth round. After the fight, the fighters’ teams staged a massive brawl at the Nevada arena where the fight took place.
— A few weeks ago, a video was published on the UFC channel, showing how Khabib, immediately after stopping the fight, spits on Conor and insults him very harshly, asking a rhetorical question. Would you like to see such words spoken one day in the cage of “Our Cause”?
“I would like that one day we have a fight of such magnitude, but, probably, this level of aggression in the cage is good if it is more or less controlled. But if only there was something other than spitting… Especially in the situation we are currently experiencing in the country. And for us, as an organization that broadcasts on , it is very important that everything is in line with the standards. We understand: what is allowed for other leagues, if it happens here, can have more serious consequences than for them. And even if we had said such words, perhaps we would have published this only after a few years.
– And yet, would you or would you not like this to be said in the “Our Business” box?
– I would not like to. When two athletes of this caliber fight, spitting and insults are probably not a good story. However, if we take the history of the events that preceded this fight, the words that were spoken before … perhaps in Khabib’s place, someone would have acted even harsher,” Gulyan told .
Read a great interview with the president of the “Our Cause” league, Armen Ghulyan, on Matchtv.ru on Saturday.
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