MOSCOW, May 2. The manager of the Russian UFC fighter Petr Yan Sayat Abdrakhmanov explained in an interview«Sport-Express« why there was no Russian tricolor in the fight against Aljamain Sterling.According to the representative of the Russian fighter, Jan's team decided not to take the flag in order to play it safe and not run into consequences.
"The situation with the flags changes from tournament to tournament. Banned at recent tournaments, banned in London. We also expected that it would be forbidden to go out with flags, so we didn’t even have a flag with us. It was not said that you can’t go out with the Russian flag, we just saw that in London it was forbidden to go out with flags, so we thought that it would be the same in Florida", Abdrakhmanov said.