🚨 Raoni Barcelos speaks for the first time following the scary ending to the Raul Rosas Jr. fight 🙏
“I wanted to send you all a message to let you know that I’m okay. I’m doing very well, and I’m getting all the necessary tests done here at the hospital.
Man, I gave everything I had inside that cage. Like I said before, the only way I was leaving that cage was being carried out. And that’s how it ended up happening. It wasn’t the way I wanted it to go. I wanted to become champion and leave with the victory, but God knows everything.
So, on to the next one. I’m here, I’m okay, and I’ll be back. I’ll come back stronger.”
Even though I don’t agree with how Namo Fazil handled things or the level of respect he showed, we shouldn’t ignore the broader anti Kurdish sentiment that has existed in some Dagestani and Chechen circles. Some individuals have openly supported Turkey and expressed hostility toward Kurds. There is also a documented history of thousands of people from Chechnya and Dagestan joining jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, including ISIS, although this should never be generalized to Chechens or Dagestanis as a whole.