"Some of the fans showed me the middle finger. I saw him with my side vision and I wanted to grab and break that finger on the way to the octagon. I shooed him away, swung at him to get him to run away. There wasn't even a punch as such. Did it affect me? No. I think, on the contrary, it cheered me up, raised my heart rate. Such a mini-fight before the fight itself," said Tsarukyan.
Later, the fan who provoked the incident with Tsarukyan stated that he had no claims to the fighter.
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