{"id":310561,"date":"2019-04-21T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=310561"},"modified":"2019-04-21T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T20:35:03","slug":"ufc-executive-responds-after-khabib-nurmagomedov-criticizes-st-petersburg-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-executive-responds-after-khabib-nurmagomedov-criticizes-st-petersburg-event\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Executive responds after Khabib Nurmagomedov criticizes St. Petersburg event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov was not happy with the lack of promotion for Saturday\u2019s UFC event in St. Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The undefeated Russian, Khabib, said he would like to see the promotion adapt a new policy, one which would pay attention to his countries fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the UFC should have a different policy, Nurmagomedov explained. \u201cUFC need to pay attention to our fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Eagle\u201d is currently serving a suspension which was handed down from the NSAC for his participated in the now infamous post-fight brawl at UFC 229. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khabib Nurmagomedov recently revealed that he will likely be returning in September for a title unification bout with Dustin Poirier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Khabib\u2019s criticism of the UFC\u2019s lack of promotion for Saturday\u2019s St. Petersburg event, Dan Shaw, a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/anderson-silva-defends-jon-jones-legacy\/\">UFC<\/a> executive, has responded (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/04\/ufc-exec-david-shaw-respectfully-disagrees-with-khabib-nurmagomedovs-criticism-of-ufc-st-petersburg\">MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think I would probably respectfully disagree with Khabib on that one,\u201d Shaw said at the UFC on ESPN+ 7 post-fight news conference. \u201cIf you look at what we\u2019ve done, look back, we opened up the office in Moscow \u2026 10 months ago. And in even 10 months we\u2019ve held an event with 23,000 people at Olimpiysky Stadium in Moscow and now here at Yubileyny (Sports Palace), we\u2019re averaging about 15,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaw continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThroughout those times, we\u2019ve had a considerable amount on the card that has been occupied by Russian and CIS athletes there was tonight at least one fighter in every fight, I think we might have had out of 22, maybe we had 11 fighters, 12 fighters of Russian, CIS descent,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe amount of marketing and promotion that went in, the thoughtfulness that went into creating the card in that we don\u2019t just want to have Russian fighters. We had Dagestani fighters. We had Shevchenko on the card as well, right. We\u2019re trying to get a good representation of the whole area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you think the UFC did a good job of promoting Saturday\u2019s St. Petersburg event? 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