The head of the promotion "Our Cause" Artur Harutyunyan commented on the fight between Alexander Emelianenko and Artem Tarasov.
"We made an analysis and realized that people want to see Emelianenko after a year's downtime. We decided to take it in our stride, called Artem Tarasov. I remember that in some interview Alexander said that he would fight with Artem Tarasov if things were very bad. And so he did. Things are not that bad, but it seems to me that we need this fight, this hype. Maybe the quality of the fight will suffer, the viewers won't get what they could get if it was, for example, the Sasha Emelianenko vs Islam Karimov fight. It would be a different story there. But here is Artem Tarasov with his audience, which hates him in many ways".
