ASA Grand Prix Finalist Adam Bogatyrev told how he was criticised after losing a fight with Evgeny Goncharov.
On August 16, Goncharov and Bogatyrev fought in the Heavyweight Grand Prix Final. Goncharov defended his belt by winning a five-round unanimous decision. During the fight, Bogatyrev broke his hand and was unable to fully attack for the entire distance of the fight.
— You gave Goncharov a cardboard belt, tried to make fun of him in an interview, but eventually lost. Did you encounter any negative reactions from your compatriots or fans?
– Yes, of course. They said a lot. There is even a group that should have become a support group, but there are such characters … They sit down and write something from left-wing narratives. For example, they say: “I could beat him … I showed the same fight, the same music to which I came out.” I don’t even want to comment on this. I probably just have idealized concepts about society. And what I just heard and saw leaves much to be desired. The best for them. We even have something like a saying in the republic: there is a mountain river Assa in Ingushetia. It is very cold and very fast. So the man crosses it, stops, turns around and says: “I will pass and leave, but how are you going to live so cold all the time?” And I feel the same way about these people. How can one continue to live with such rot? I’m here today, I’m gone tomorrow. And here you are?
In fact, in a way, I am even glad that I lost, because so many people opened up. For example, I save the correspondence on social networks. And yesterday I won, I went to listen to pop music, they wrote to me: “you are beautiful.” And now I went out and played pop music, and they write me this nonsense about music. Many people wrote me different things, but I think that there are no worse enemies of the Russians. I do not know what is inside these people, what kind of heart they have. But for me it is a very fuzzy topic.
I had a case when I lost at the Battle in the Mountains tournament. I came to the podium, I was sitting in a hood, and men were sitting right in front of me. They say: “Have you seen him? I would have beaten him myself.” I took off my hood and said: “I just fought, I fought for 15 minutes, but if you want, let’s go fight.” And he immediately said: “No, bro, this is a normal fight.” People do not understand how high a level our fight was. The fight was conditionally between the 15th and 30th world rankings. This is a very serious level,” Bogatyrev told .
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