Russian boxer Albert Batyrgaziev, winner of the Tokyo Olympics, said that he refused to appear in the ring with figure skater Alina Zagitova due to the misrepresentation of this event by the media. DEA News.
“We needed to have an open training session. The next morning I saw that thanks to some people I will not talk about their profession, we “arranged a fight”. “It was supposed to be an open training session, a master class,” said Batyrgaziev.
The event was to take place in August 2022. Instead of Batyrgaziev, Zagitova held a boxing master class with two-time Olympic champion Oleg Saitov.
A few weeks before the event, the athlete began to train in the ring and work on the technique, which he talked about on social networks.
Zagitova is an Olympic champion (single skating) and silver medalist (team tournament) of the Olympic Games – 2018. The athlete also has gold of the World Championship – 2019, gold and silver of the European Championship in 2018 and 2019.
Formerly Batyrgaziev supported boxing desire of figure skater Zagitova.