Athletistic/ MMA. The representative of Russian mixed martial arts fighter Peter Yan Sayat Abdrakhmanov explained why the Russian went to fight with Aljamain Sterling without the Russian flag.

The fighter’s manager noted that Jan’s team decided not to take the flag in order to play it safe.

“From tournament to tournament, the situation with the flags changes. In the last tournaments it was forbidden, in London it was forbidden. We also expected that it would be forbidden to go out with flags, so we didn’t even have a flag with us,” Abdrakhmanov said.

Recall that Peter Yan lost to American Aljamain Sterling in the fight for the UFC bantamweight title at the 273rd UFC tournament.

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