Reigning AMC Fight Nights middleweight champion, Vladimir Mineev, has explained why he offered non-existent tickets to his former opponent Magomed Ismailov, who was looking for a ‘loophole’ into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.
“My friends, you don’t need to be a detective to realize that the boarding tickets in the name of Magomed Ismailov that have appeared on my social networks are photoshopped,” Mineyev said in the published video. “Think about it – to get boarding passes, you need to be Ismailov himself, and already with a passport to stand at the airport, being ready for departure. And to buy them, you need passport data and a passport, which, despite all the closeness of our communication, I, of course, do not have. We are all busy people, and it would be considered bad form to buy a person tickets without agreeing on a convenient time of departure with them
“Therefore, one should treat the ticket image as nothing more than some sort of complaint to Mohammed’s words about at least a single loophole. Nevertheless, as soon as Magomed expressed his desire to get the tickets, we requested these data with more convenient departure time from him. But I think many of you have already seen Magomed’s response in social networks, and you know, I support him in this – first of all, mercenarism is kind of illegal, and Magomed is a Russian citizen, and we need our own servicemen now. Secondly, in difficult times we must rally around helping those who are in trouble”
Mineyev also made it clear that he is ready to participate in collecting humanitarian aid for Palestinian children.
“Regarding the children of Palestine, I spoke out in the previous video, expressing my deepest condolences on this matter, and I support Ismailov’s initiative to collect humanitarian aid for the affected children of Palestine – I am ready to participate in this. I propose to transfer part of our fees from the third fight to these needs”
In turn, Mineyev offered Ismailov to take part in the fundraising efforts of his charitable foundation.
“Magomed, in your address you call on me to be a man with a heart, but after all, we all know that my cardio is much better than yours, not even at the peak of your form. I have long been systematically helping children through the Peter Mineyev Charitable Foundation. And if we’re talking about it, let’s not talk in words, but in deeds – right now we need to close the collection to save the life of our compatriot Sasha Mironov, who is desperately fighting leukemia. With your permission, since you are not going anywhere, we will donate the money for your tickets to his treatment. I suggest not only me, but you and my subscribers to help the guy. The death of children is a great grief for everyone. I myself am a father of three children, so I can’t even imagine the pain and grief of families”
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33074-mineev-ob-yasnilsya-po-povodu-falshivykh-biletov-dlya-ismailova.html?rand=19907