Issue 157
August 2017
A show of class after three tough rounds.
It might not get the same headlines as trash talk, scuffles and bottle throwing, but the sportsmanship most mixed martial artists show one another is one of the reasons why the sport is the best in the world.
The first man to console Abdul Razak Alhassan after he suffered his first loss as a pro at UFC Fight Night 109 was the man he’d just spent 15 minutes trying to knock out: Omari Akhmedov.
As soon as the klaxon went, the Russian sat down and put a consoling arm around his defeated opponent as the cutmen came in to tend to their wounds.
