– We meet you at the boxing tournament when it’s 2:40 am in Omsk. Is it unusual not to sleep at such an hour?
– To be honest, very unusual. I thought for a long time whether I would go or not, but I decided to go anyway. I usually go to bed at 22. But I wake up differently, but at 7 a.m. I usually get up already.
– For a run?
No, I train. But sometimes it happens when there is nothing to do, I can go for a run.
– Today, professional fighters did not fight everywhere. How watchable is it to you?
– Some fighters didn’t fight worse than some boxers, I won’t name names.
– Alexey Tishchenko has not fought for 11 years, Bruce Khlebnikov has come from power tricks, Mikhail Mokhnatkin is a grassroots sambo wrestler. Considering all that, what was the most interesting fight?
– The last one (Aleksey Papin vs Dilan Prashovich), because it was already a real fight, they were already professionals with good moves. Khlebnikov fought well, he had a few options. If he had better features, he could fight normally, even win.
– Do you remember him from the 2000s TV video?
– Of course I remember.
“Isn’t it surprising that he disappeared for a while, and now he’s fighting?”
– Well no. If he wants to fight, then let him.
– Vladimir Khryunov said that you offered a fighter from your gym to replace Ivan Shtyrkov when Ivan refused to fight.
– It’s a pity that our boy was not put. There, I think it would be more difficult for Misha (Mokhnatkin). We have Ruslan Chobanov, he is a master of the sport in boxing, a very good amateur. Became the third in the championship of Russia. He hasn’t competed in boxing for a long time, but he trains with us and performs in clinch, in other forms.
– Did they explain to you why they did not choose him, but Islam Karimov?
— I think that according to the media, Islam is simply ahead of him. However, our guy is not very famous. But he can still win. Karimov boxed well, but it seems to me that his boxing school is weaker than Ruslan’s.
– Would you agree to compete in boxing?
– Yes, I wanted to do boxing. I even had conversations, but they didn’t come to fruition. The offer wasn’t very good, I don’t even want to remember. For me, it would be a passing fight, I don’t want to participate in that.
– And with whom would you like to fight MMA?
– Well wait, now we will fight Maga in MMA, maybe we will also fight in boxing with him, who knows.
– In April, you said your left arm was still hurting…
– … so I kneaded it now and sat all the way.
– But has it gotten better?
Yes, it’s better, but not as fast.
– Then a short man with a freestyle wrestling base fought with you, you said he was helping prepare for Magomed. Are you going to call someone else?
– No freestyle, but classic wrestling… But why run after sparring partners, after wrestlers. It’s not important here, it’s important to approach this fight in a functional way.
– Yesterday the Hook to You program came out, where Alexander Emelianenko appeared to be in very poor condition. What are your impressions ?
– Very sad experience. All my words are confirmed. On the one hand, a great tragedy is unfolding before our eyes. On the other hand, Alexander Emelianenko, I am not afraid of this word, is the hero of our time, because he shows us how not to behave. Which path cannot be chosen. He has chosen this role and shows us what alcohol can do to a strong person, to a healthy person, to a healthy man, because it burns before our eyes. It simply does not exist. You can bombard me with bad comments, but he was a healthy person who let down such powerful guys in Pride. And now any high schooler will drop him. Apparently, if we can’t help him, we’ll just have to use his example to show other strong young guys that alcohol hasn’t had such an effect on them yet. I’m not sure we can help him.
Do you believe he can recover?
“He can go back to living a few years, twenty years or more. If he works hard on himself, he can still live normally, but to fight more… You understand, alcohol kills the central nervous system, we see that. Watch his movements, he does not react to blows, does not see them. Look at the fights with Maga, with Marcio Santos, he has no time to react. And any physiologist will tell you that the central nervous system is very difficult to restore. You can work all your life and not fully recover.
– Release him to fight with Datsik…
“It’s unrealistic he won’t go to the fight. I don’t believe there will be a fight. I read that supposedly he will be in a rehab center. At best he will go through rehab , maybe he’ll breathe, maybe he’ll look better, but the central nervous system is the most important. It’s a reaction to blows, coordination. Alcohol hits the cerebellum, and it is the center that is responsible for the coordination.For this reason, people stop taking hits.
Turn to glory [Дацику]. Slava, I understand very well: the money, the old war, but take care of Alexander. In this state, you will simply kill him. Why take sin on your soul. I understand that he himself chose this path, this path is his life and his path. It’s his type (Glory will understand me now). But I think Slava shouldn’t be the person who takes sin into his soul.
Alexander Emelianenko and Vyacheslav Datsik are expected to hold a boxing match in the fall of 2022 in Moscow.
Source : MatchTV
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