Indecent gesture of the referee, closing of the Battle for Hype and going to the strip club for $ 1 million: near-sporting events of the week

The fighter spoke about survival in the United States

Flyweight fighter from Kazakhstan Maria Agapova is preparing for her debut at the UFC. June 13, she will fight in Las Vegas with Brazilian Melissa Gatto. In an interview with News.ru, the athlete spoke about her difficult path to success in the United States. According to the girl, there were times when she could stay on the street, however, for the sake of the opportunity to build a career in mixed martial arts, Agapova was ready to get used to it.

“I even had a plan on how to bomb there. I wanted to hand over things to a left-luggage office, buy a tent and live in it. It was possible to train, wash and charge the phone in the hall, but there were problems with the overnight stay. I was ready to kill pigeons and fry them at the stake, but even in my thoughts I couldn’t return home, ”the athlete admitted.

She said that when she did not have enough money for food, her teammates and managers came to the rescue. The troubled period in Agapova’s life seems to be left behind. After a series of successful fights, she had sponsors. The athlete also signed a contract with the most prestigious promotion in MMA.

Lack of money stopped the Battle of Hype

Last week, it became known about the closure of the project of the blogger Amiran Sardarov, "The Battle for Hype." Characters such as, for example, MMA fighter Vyacheslav Datsik, who served a prison term, went into the octagon. As part of the show, rivals from different weight categories could meet each other.

Sardarov explained the closure of the project due to the lack of funding in connection with the coronavirus pandemic: “Unfortunately, the Battle for Hype will no longer go on. I can’t pull it, I can’t pull it out. It was hard for me to pull it up to the coronavirus. Costs grew very much, fees increased, your appetites grew. But this is a normal story. Any fighter who wins deserves to get more for the next fight. ”

According to Sardarov, the money that was earned from the fighting was not even enough to maintain the promotion at the same level.

“This is the first promotion in Russia that came out of the people, fell in love with the people. But math doesn't beat, unfortunately. There is no market, no money, no investor. I am forced to inform you that the project is being closed, ”the blogger added.

Doctors treating Komissarov declared internationally wanted

The career of the Russian freestyle artist Maria Komissarova was cut short by a severe spinal injury sustained at the Olympic Games in Sochi. The athlete was confined to a wheelchair. Komissarov’s rehabilitation took place in the clinic of Dr. Eugene Blum in Spain. The medic assured that the athlete would be able to recover and stand on her feet, but this did not happen.

Now Blum is suspected of embezzlement of 27.8 million rubles allocated by the state and various funds for the treatment of Komissarova. According to the investigation, as a doctor of medical sciences and having sufficient experience, he knew that modern medicine was not able to help Mary recover, but he still took the money.

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Publication by Maria Komissarova (@chaadaeva_maria) May 25, 2020 at 1:20 PDT

Komissarova sued Blum in 2018. In 2019, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against him. The media wrote about large-scale fraud. The other day, a spokeswoman for the Basmanny Court, Irina Morozova, said the doctor was put on the international wanted list. He also faces an absentee arrest.

“It was strange that after the initiation of the criminal case, he actively advertised his services, planned to publish a book about his own methodology and actively recruited new customers,” Komissarova commented on the TASS court decision.

Judge from Latvia explains his middle finger to the player

Football referee from Latvia Andris Treimanis was at the center of the scandal. During the test match between Riga, which was coached by the former coach of Spartak Moscow Oleg Kononov, and the RFB, he removed the Ivorian guest player Cedric Cuadio and, in addition, showed him the middle finger. This episode could go unnoticed, but the publication of the screenshot from the broadcast hit the Internet and caused a serious resonance.

The 35-year-old Treimanis serves the European Cup matches and is on the list of candidates for work at the 2022 World Cup from Europe. In order not to spoil his reputation, he had to explain himself. In his video message on Facebook, the judge made it clear that one should not look for a racist context in this situation.

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As you can see on the record of the episode, after fighting for the ball at the sideline, Cuadio showed the middle finger to either the lineman or the Riga player. Treimanis noticed an indecent gesture, ran to the legionnaire and presented him with a red card. According to the referee, the Ivorian at first did not understand why he was being removed. Then the judge, in accordance with the rules, demonstrated what specifically guilty of Quadio.

“I just showed what he did. No need to grab a part from the whole - watch the entire episode as a whole. It happens that white is made of black and vice versa, ”Treimanis explained.

Seed and Raseboi have a baby

The South African athlete Custer Semen and her lover, Violet Raseboi, had a baby. The athlete hinted at this in her Instagram account, posting a picture with a pair of children's sneakers.

The birth of the child was also reported by the South African newspaper Daily Sun. Sources of the publication said that the baby was born a few months ago.

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Semen and Rasseboy married in May 2015. The wedding ceremony was held in the southern African town of Ga Dikgale in the province of Limpopo.

In 2019, Semen was recognized as a hermaphrodite - in her body, both female and male sexual characteristics were found. The runner was assigned to biologically male athletes with female gender characteristics and put forward three conditions for returning to the sport as a woman: taking contraceptive drugs, injections of a hormone regulator, or surgery.

Did Harden spend $ 1 million in one night at a strip club?

Houston Rockets star basketball player James Harden is well known in the NBA not only as a brilliant quarterback, but also as a frequent visitor to strip clubs. Once, a love of institutions of this kind even led to the fact that after a noisy party, one of the bars "put out of circulation" his number. In the release of Joe Badden's podcast, his co-host, Mol (Jameel Clay), told the story of how Mike Harden was hanged at the ceiling of a Houston strip club in which a basketball player parted with a round sum overnight.

“Mike James was hanging from the ceiling. They did it because, they said, James was throwing a ton of money there, you know? So they hung his shirt under the ceiling of the strip club, ”said Clay.

According to him, one of the nights, Harden allegedly spent $ 1 million in the club.

Abramovich bought the "Scream" Munch?

According to the Sotheby's Life Telegram channel, the owner of London Chelsea Roman Abramovich became the owner of the famous Scream by Norwegian artist Edward Munch. It was reported that the purchase cost $ 120 million. However, sources in several Russian media surrounded by the entrepreneur denied this information.

“This story is not true,” said the source of RIA Novosti.