MOSCOW, Apr 4. Russian Bellator fighter Anatoly Tokov said that domestic fans should not expect his fight against league middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi in the near future. According to the athlete, this is due to the reluctance of the American League to give title fights to fighters from Russia.
" ;After October we were promised a fight for February, but as usual the Americans refuse to fight. I don't know why they are so afraid of the Russians. Then Fedor (Emelianenko) talked about me — they refused, but Bellator offered a fight for the belt on June 24th. And recently we were told that while the Russians can't fight for the title, they promise to give another fight… It's not that Bellator doesn't want to. There is the president of the league Scott Cocker, there are employees — they don't mind. But the people who own Bellator said they would not give the Russian "titles", – Tokov noted on the YouTube channel "Vestnik MMA".
The fighter also noted that the planned on April 15, the fight of light heavyweight champion Vadim Nemkov against Corey Anderson from the USA was not going to be canceled:
"The fact is that Vadik has a belt, the fight was announced even before the sanctions, tickets are already sold out".