The crowd booed the introduction of every Russian fighter. Some young kid won a fight and was so proud, he thanked everyone back home in Russia and when the translator said that, more boos erupted.
Just…SO fucking rude. These guys are MMA fighters, they have nothing to do with what’s going on.
Using sport for propaganda isn’t new at all but DAMN. Desperate much, deep state? Whatcha hiding? (We know, but the normies don’t)
At least they're able to compete still. In the CSGO pro scene they've banned russian based teams from competing in 2 of the major tournament series for the game. There's some irony there with it being a counter-terrorist vs. terrorist game somewhere.