“We don’t even want to see them.” Artyom Dalakyan about performing in the same show with Beterbiev

WBA world champion in the flyweight (up to 50.8 kg) Ukrainian Artyom Dalakyan (21-0, 15 KOs) will defend his sixth title against Costa Rican David Jimenez (12-0, 9 KOs) on the undercard of the unified light heavyweight champion from Canada Artur Beterbiev (18-0, 18 KOs). The upcoming evening of boxing will be held in London on January 28th.

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Mixed Zone by Dream Bigger Artyom made a comment about participating in the same boxing evening with a native of enemy Russia, who is openly friends with the head of the Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

– Your fight with Jimenez will be on the undercard of the Beterbiev – Yard fight. Beterbiev, we are all well aware that he is close to one bad person. And he constantly uploads photos with him there. I wrote to the WBC from Lucky Punch that Beterbiev is not Canadian, he is Russian. Mauricio Suleiman personally replied to Lucky Punch: “No, he is Canadian, he has children born in Canada, he has a Canadian passport”, so, like, fuck off. What do you think about your fight being on the undercard?

– What should I think? I’m going there to defend my belt. I know one thing – when I signed up for the fight, they didn’t tell me that this person would box on the same card. I don’t even want to say his name. If we knew it would be like this, I think we would try to either box earlier or box later. That is, fights often take place in England, and we would not box with this person on the undercard.

But I, my team and the president of the club – all of us will not intersect with these people. We don’t even want to see them. We will try to make it so that we will live in another hotel. I have a closed relationship with these people. The question for this person is closed. I don’t even want to talk about this topic and somehow intersect with this person somewhere, because you yourself said that this person is friends with that person. And that’s it – this topic is closed. I kind of defend my interests. Interests are the flag, this is Ukraine, your belt and your promotional company. I box in front of him, that is, I go out into my space. This is my time, I went out, boxed. I’ll try to win. I give 99% that I will win. I will bring back the world champion belt to Ukraine. And this is the most important point, and this topic is like this, closed.

– I’m glad that the flag of Ukraine will hang in front of their muzzles there.

– We will make sure that half the stadium will be in our flag.