ASA Vice President Aslanbek Badaev in a conversation with said whether the fighters and the organization report to the tax authorities after paying the fees.
Earlier, the ASA League announced the Grand Prix in all weight categories, for which a fee was announced for the winner. On August 16, Russian Evgeny Goncharov became the winner of the Grand Prix in the heavyweight category; earlier, the tournament in the lightweight category was won by Eduard Vartanyan. The ASA League has repeatedly reported that the winner of the Grand Prix, according to the terms of the contract, will earn 15 million rubles, or $ 200,000 (for foreign fighters).
In May, it became known about the debt due to non-payment of taxes of the former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. According to various media outlets, the 35-year-old ex-fighter owes about 300 million rubles. Last week, manager Rizvan Magomedov told that “the issue of taxes in the amount of about 26 million rubles” had been resolved, everything had been paid in the prescribed manner.
— In Russian MMA, after the incident with Khabib, they started talking about the need to pay taxes. You had a fight where it was clear how much Evgeny Goncharov would earn: 15 million rubles and $ 25,000 in bonuses. Do you delve into how fighters treat this money?
— This is the work that our accounting department does. They always receive data from the fighter, communicate with his representative or with the fighter himself and solve these problems. We have several forms of transfer, transfer to individual entrepreneurs and other standard methods. We believe that circumventing the law is wrong and there may be consequences. The ASA is not an organization that can afford to act illegally in any way.
— How confident are you that Goncharov is loyal to the league and has no intention of leaving it one day, like Ngannou left the UFC?
— If I were Zhenya Goncharov, I would consider this option. He can say that his contract is expiring and he will try to leave. He can try to do it, it will be quite possible. But Evgeniy and I respect each other, we have certain agreements. I would like to believe that he will follow them, despite the fact that somewhere it is difficult and unpleasant for him. But we must also accept that Zhenya is almost 40 years old and fights in conditions that suit him. He created this comfort for himself. Although our relations were not always good, we overcame the crisis and came to a common denominator. And we have always respected each other, no matter what. Zhenya has now earned a lot of money. He has fees that change his life for the better. So why doesn’t he continue to fight here, to strengthen his legacy. In addition, he wants to become the record holder for the number of belt defenses. So far, no one has defended the heavyweight belt more than twice in the ACA league. And he can go down in history and become a future member of the organization’s Hall of Fame,” Badaev told .
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