""I feel very bad for U.S. promotions because there are so many hungry fighters coming and they don't like to talk trash,""
""They just come, smash people, and take money, and U.S. promotions don't like this; they like trash talking, they like entertainment. I understand in one way it's business, but at the end of the day, this is sport. You go alone inside the cage and we'll see who's the best in the world.""
""... Right now I see some promotions follow politics and just don't sign them because they're tired. All Magomedovs, Nurmagomedovs jump to the UFC and take over. In the last couple of years, they changed politics and I don't like it. This is sport at the end of the day and it has to be fair. In the last couple of years, they cut so many fighters who didn't lose in the UFC. They just finished their contracts and didn't give them a new one. Somebody has to talk about this, and I think this is not fair. This is what I don't like.""
U.S. promotions prioritize entertainment and trash-talking over fighters who quietly focus on winning, leading to reluctance to sign many Caucasus competitors. Fighters from the Caucasus often win decisively without engaging in promotional trash talk, which can result in contract nonrenewals despite solid records. Some promotions reportedly follow politics and avoid signing groups of fighters who appear to dominate. Dagestani fighters have learned English to improve marketability and career prospects in US promotions. Recent patterns of cutting fighters at contract end without losses raise concerns about fairness and business motives superseding sporting merit.
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