"Did they hit me with a crowd? Yes, but I fought back. There was an incident in Moscow, those were the days of skinheads - that's when they attacked me. We were hanging out in Okhotny Ryad, skinheads showed up and there was a massacre. I ran forward - I thought everyone did, but it turned out that I was alone - and there were a lot of guys who attacked me. There were five of them, all thin, not very big - I had the opportunity to fight and fight back normally," Ismailov said in an interview with the Hands Above YouTube channel.
Ismailov will fight Vladimir Mineyev on October 16 at AMC Fight Nights 104 show in Sochi.