I've heard the reason because of what happened in Los Angeles. I thought by weighing in as the backup fighter when Ilia fought Charles and by going and fighting Dan Hooker it would be OK. I don't know what conversations they are having behind closed doors because they're telling him something that's making him OK with it.
"A lot of people have no clue," Artur told Red Corner MMA. "They think we were born in a golden cradle... We could also tell a lot of things about the way we used to live. But why? I think all of us went through this stage of our lives when we were younger. We didn't even have wrestling shoes. Like at all. We lived in the countryside back then, in a sort of a 'ghetto'. So when we would go into city and see wrestlers with Asics shoes, it had a 'wow' effect on us."
If we had let him go chasing a knockout, a finish, he might have made a mistake somewhere and lost the fight," Tsarukyan told Adam Zubayraev. "So it's a risk, right? Why risk it if everything's working? In the third round, he tells me, 'Can I box a little now?' [I said] No, Khamzat, everything's working for you already. If you see a chance to take him down, take him down and control.
