Russian MMA fighter Magomed Ismailov, at a meeting with MGIMO students in Moscow, said that he would never compete in bare-knuckle fighting tournaments, a SE correspondent reports. Michele Antonov.
“I don’t support fisticuffs at all,” Ismailov said. – There should be progress in sport, not degradation. If we degrade in sports, then soon one spear will take, the other with an ax will jump out. Now there are gloves. The same can be shown with gloves. Why fight on bare fists? To have more blood, more cuts. If the sport is degrading, I am specifically against it. When they asked me how much I was ready to go bare-knuckled for, I gave the figure of 50 million. Because I knew that they would not take out this amount. But even if they did, I still wouldn’t fight. Because these are bare fists, and I am an athlete.
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