Russian MMA fighter Ivan Shtyrkov said he was conducting mixed training with a penchant for boxing for a duel with Magomed Ismailov.
On Tuesday it was announced that Ismailov and Shtyrkov will fight under boxing rules on March 7 in Yekaterinburg.
– I haven’t finished MMA yet, I still have some points to settle. I just overloaded some training percentages on boxing. More legs, a kind of specific work for boxing. But MMA is and will continue to be. Preparations are in full swing, but they are mixed. They just leaned a bit towards boxing. But MMA helps. The same endurance of the hands, the combination, the sense of distance. Everything is in favor. Mixed MMA sparring won’t hurt me in boxing.
A guy comes towards me. A good boxer, a master of the sport, as the guys told me. A young man under 100 kg. Normally, we do the work I need, nothing supernatural. I don’t need Olympic champions. From them, I will just take my head, they will beat me. You have to practice it yourself, watch it work. And it is useless to call a level higher than that of the boxers. To be a moving pear,” Shtyrkov told the “Championship”.
Shtyrkov’s MMA stats are 22 wins and 2 losses, 1 draw. Ismailov has 18 mixed martial arts wins, 3 losses and 1 fight also ended in a draw.
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