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by Roman Antonovsky
| In fact, many pop MMA stars are representatives of the subculture of abu bandits: this is an explosive cocktail of ideas of radical Wahhabi Islam, AUE concepts and Russophobia. |
[REGNUM] The phenomenon of Russian pop MMA from the field of entertainment began to move into the sphere of politics, which is becoming a serious problem for our society and state. There is nothing wrong with MMA itself - it is a normal men’s sport, combining elements of wrestling and striking techniques, which allows representatives of various martial arts to find out whether “ chyokung is more powerful . ” The term MMA, in fact, stands for mixed martial art - mixed martial arts (martial arts).
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It is gratifying that Russian champions and outstanding fighters almost immediately appeared in professional MMA: Oleg Taktarov , Fedor Emelianenko , Alexander Shlemenko , Khabib Nurmagomedov .
Pop MMA is a different matter.
Behind this term are hidden versions of mixed fights, where not only professionals, but also amateurs can take part. The low athletic level of the fighters is compensated by the so-called “trash talk ”, mutual insults between the fighters before and after the fight, and mass brawls outside the octagon between their support groups.
Unlike professional MMA promotions like the UFC, which sign multimillion-dollar broadcast contracts with television channels or streaming services, the main distribution channel for pop MMA is social networks such as YouTube. More trash, more dirt - more views and comments.
Thus, the pop MMA promotion “Our Business” specializes in freak fights. Bloggers, porn stars, actors and even deputies gather in the cage. It's embarrassing and funny to watch. But the ratings are growing, but the money doesn’t smell.
The most popular pop MMA show in Russia was Hardcore Fighting, founded by Anatoly Sulyanov , who had previously worked in nightclubs and tried himself in martial arts at a semi-professional level.
The main feature of Hardcore Fighting was not the fights themselves, but the swearing, squabbles and brawls around them. Often, exchanges between fighters at weigh-ins and press conferences attract more views than the fight itself.
The lion's share of Hardcore Fighting fighters are hot guys from the Caucasus and Central Asia. In clashes with each other, they do not hesitate to raise the topic of nationality, religion, and lash each other out.
Top "Hardcore" fighters are mostly bloggers, not athletes. They can rarely compete with professionals from sports MMA, but they have millions of subscribers on social networks.
Why does the pop MMA phenomenon pose a danger to our country?
Many fighters, having gained popularity on social networks, have become opinion leaders for our youth, especially for young migrants from Central Asia and guys from the North Caucasus. Unfortunately, they do not convey the values that we need.
Rarely do any pop MMA fighters of non-Russian nationality, even having Russian citizenship, go into battle with the Russian flag; most often they emphasize their national and regional identity, or even broadcast openly separatist ideas.
Thus, Chechen fighter Ilyas Yakubov more than once staged the speeches of terrorist Shamil Basayev in his videos on Instagram (owned by Meta, a recognized extremist organization in Russia) , for which he was recently detained. Having rather modest achievements in sports, where Ilyas has not much fewer defeats than victories, he is nevertheless a popular blogger, with an audience of 1.2 million on Instagram.
In fact, many pop MMA stars are representatives of the subculture of abu bandits: this is an explosive cocktail of ideas of radical Wahhabi Islam, AUE concepts and Russophobia.
They broadcast this ideology to their large audience, provoking interethnic and interreligious strife in our country.
None of the pop MMA bloggers publicly supported the SVO, even their fellow tribesmen and co-religionists who are fighting for our common Motherland.
But many of them threatened to kill a Russian MMA fighter from Lugansk, Max Divnich , who protested against the construction of a mosque for migrants on the Holy Lake in Moscow, a sacred place for Orthodox Christians.
When the Palestinian-Israeli conflict occurred, the same pop-MMA bloggers began to actively support Hamas and Palestine, demonstrating solidarity not with their fellow citizens from Russia, but with one of the sides of a distant and alien conflict.
But even here there was some posturing.
Chechen UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev and Dagestani Maga Ismailov expressed their ardent readiness to go to fight for Palestine, but, of course, they did not go anywhere. Although social media users sarcastically suggested that they buy a ticket to Beirut and find the Hezbollah office there.
And the same Chimaev, positioning himself as an ardent Muslim, has three passports at once: Russia, the UAE and Sweden. The same Sweden where the Koran is regularly burned under the protection of local authorities.
However, the “benefits” that EU citizenship provides for Chimaev apparently outweigh all the blasphemous actions of the Swedes. In the fall, he also loudly announced the refusal of a Swedish passport, but meticulous Swedish journalists did not find any official confirmation of this.
Caucasian MMA bloggers also played an important role in the riots in Makhachkala.
They willingly picked up the fake news of the Ukrainian channel “Morning Dagestan” about Jewish refugees in Dagestan and broadcast it to their subscribers, calling for a Jewish pogrom. Several such posts were written by the famous midget blogger Hasbik, a popular blogger in the pop-MMA community with a multimillion-dollar audience, who has repeatedly published quite radical Islamist posts.
In fact, the pop MMA phenomenon has given us not only a freak show and a parody of a noble male sport, but also a whole galaxy of popular bloggers who broadcast Russophobic, Islamist and separatist propaganda to the Muslim youth of Russia.
It's time to do something about this. The same goes for underground MMA clubs for migrants, which become a gathering point for radical Islamists and ethnic organized crime groups.
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