Recently, the President of Armfighting federation Hayk Ghukasyan announced that the world champion by ProFc David Khachatryan last time will act in the defense fight for the championship belt with the Turkish opponent in the city of Yaroslavl on May 11 under the flag of Armenia.
“After that, David will enter the Octagon as a representative of the Russian Federation,” said the coach of the champion. Aravot.am was excited about this statement, even though Hayk Ghukasyan and David Khachatryan had hinted on it during the press conference held after the next victory in Russia, on April, noting that if Armenia offers the athlete at least 10 percent of conditions offered by Russia and Iran, David will definitely stay in Armenia.
Today, during the conversation held in Armfighting federation, Hayk Ghukasyan said to Aravot.am, “What we have accomplished until now, we had done is solely on our resources. We have not received a penny from the state as support. The athlete’s life in sports is short. Moreover, in the professional martial arts, where each fight in the ring is full of health hazards. David is already 26 years old, with a family and a child.And endangering his health, he earns by fighting. During all this time, we had solved all the problems together with our existing capabilities. Now, his status is quite different. David is a world renowned fighter, and it has been for three years that many countries are interested in his services. In the meantime, there had been numerous proposals. But we have rejected for the sake of Armenia, and the honor of the Armenia sporting flag… and have got zero attention and attitude. There has been no penny of state funding. Moreover, I was told at the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs that the IOC does not accept general fighting as a sport game. To a certain extent, I agree. But, the Ministry is also involved in education issues of the youth, isn’t it. More than thousands of boys and young men getting trained in the branches of the Federation throughout Armenia, possessing the alphabet and nuances of the so-called “fighting”, afterwards they start preventing the street fights. As for David, he is not an ordinary athlete anymore. He has a stable place in the world’s elite. And it is not in vain that Russia and Iran were persistently pursuing for three years to acquire him, offering ideal conditions. What? Don’t they know that our sport is not an Olympic? Even now, I am reluctantly going for this step. But there is no alternative. Let it not seem immodest, but today athletes of seven countries willingly are trained in the small area rented at No. 188 School by our Federation, and are willing to act under the flag of Armenia. Whereas we… We do not devote much attention to our world champion. I am no more able to tell by world champion trained here in Armenia to stay, if he cannot be paid to meet the minimum necessary requirements. One more thing. David Khachatryan is not one of the athletes who hold one or two fights in the professional ring and then submit arrogant demands. In the professional ring, a record is registered next to his name: 15 wins and 2 losses.
Moreover, winning the current world champions. Four more wins were not registered. And the two losses were the result of bias. In fact, recently the coach of one of these two “happy men” admitted in front of the camera that David had actually won his trainee, but the victory was taken away from him.”
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