President of AMC Fight Nights Kamil Gadzhiev, in an interview with journalists at the MMA tournament in memory of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov in Saratov, gave a social assessment of the popularity of mixed martial arts.
– Do you have the feeling that by the end of the year in MMA there was a bit too much of this – “general”, “household team”, “what suit”, “what wool”?
– Let’s do this: MMA is still a sport for the marginalized. So it was, is and will be. And let no one be upset, because last time, when they heard the word “outcasts”, everyone attacked me. Firstly, I myself went in for sports, and this is not MMA in its purest form, but in the form in which it existed before.
Secondly, I have been doing this on a professional level for 11 years, and I do it consciously. But this jargon is quite acceptable, quite understandable. I do not get much pleasure from the fact that the conversation is in such slang, as well as from those conversations that go between Arthur Huseynov and Sasha Emelianenko. There is a little bit not a prison theme, but more like this … Not at all. Will it get smaller or not? I think it will, because neither one nor the other approach was successful. Vagab Vagabov, in principle, achieved nothing by starting to swing in this direction, and AE [Александр Емельяненко] Nothing was achieved with Arthur either.
