Eagle FC League President, former MMA fighter Shamil Zavurov, in an interview with reporters after the EFC 43 tournament, expressed dissatisfaction with the statements of the President of the Russian Wrestling Federation Mikhail Mamiashvili and two-time Olympic champion Abdulrashid Sadulaev.
On December 2, before the start of the Alros Cup tournament, Mamiashvili said that mainly those who wanted to become wrestlers go to MMA, and Sadulaev joked that “losers in freestyle wrestling” go to MMA.
– Mikhail Mamiashvili said that today in MMA the stars are those who could not become fighters. But I think that’s how it was in the 00s. That is, when you were a child – then the children looked at the wrestlers, and today they are already looking at the MMA fighters …
– I think he [Мамиашвили] and Abdulrashid [Садулаев] expressed incorrectly. There is no such thing that losers, unsuccessful wrestlers go to MMA. There is no such. We see the world statistics. How many times the title [UFC и WEC] defended by Jose Aldo. Is he a fighter? Or Anderson Silva. Or Georges St-Pierre. They [Мамиашвили и Садулаев] somehow they took it … I think that from the Dagestanis. 90 percent of Dagestan children are engaged in wrestling. Someone remains in the fight, and someone eventually switches to MMA, to grappling. Because of this statistic, they took it. And there is nothing like it in the world. It is not right. Somehow they got it wrong. Both Mamiashvili and Sadulaev. I don’t know… It looked somehow offensive. Maybe it was a joke, I don’t know. I think this is wrong.
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