Former UFC fighter Alexei Oleinik commented on the statement of his colleague from the Hall of Fame Khabib Nurmagomedov, who spoke out against women's fights.
"We often hear: 'Girls should not be in MMA, girls should not be in boxing, they should not be in deadlifts'... And we can go on and on. Where are we going from here? Are these a different breed of people? We are going to the Stone Age with such talk.
Who are you to decide what a girl should do? A girl should not fight a man - she certainly should not fight in any form of martial arts. But if she wants to do judo, karate, boxing, wrestling... Let her do it! What do you mean by "should not"?
Personally, I don't like the way girls fight and break each other's noses. "But can I really decide what all women in the world should do?", Match TV quoted Oleinik as saying.
