Russian MMA fighter with experience in professional boxing Sergey Kharitonov (32-8) near the recorder.
What are you preparing now?
– In fact, I don’t prepare for anything, I take a lot of pleasure in life. We organize tournaments for children.
– Vagabov, Datsik, Kudryashov are fighting – are you trying a showdown with any of them?
” Honestly, I do not know. I now have a great contract with Bellator, in the near future there may be an offer from Eagle FC league of Khabib Nurmagomedov, they should offer me another fight there, I just need to get a visa. At the end of July, I obtain an American visa, then Bellator indicates me the date of the fight. I plan to play at the Parus festival in Dubai. Many proposals, many where there are agreements. I’m more interested in making money. We can only fight in sparring.
– Is there at least one surname in sports, with the sound of which the fees would not be in the first place?
– If “you understand who I’m talking about” could… But he can’t. I think he might not live to see the fight now, if you exaggerate. In the state he is in, I would even be ashamed to go out with him.
– What if he was with press cubes, like he used to be?
– It will be with cubes, then we will talk.
How did you find out what form he was in?
– From photographs, videos – it’s not just that. Anyone, and even him, in this form already evokes sympathy. I’m not used to sympathizing with someone only if people are in trouble because of cataclysms, but this one himself has already fallen into a rut from which he cannot get out. Now if you go against him, they’ll say “no more drunk”. I will be ashamed. Let a few ring announcers do it, guys, maybe MMA pop, but I’ve already lost interest. I don’t think he will be in good shape.
– Instead of Datsik, is it worth fighting Emelianenko?
– This is a personal matter of Vyacheslav Datsik. Money has no smell. I think Vyacheslav remembers old cases, remembers skirmishes, so he won’t stop and fight. Datsik is the clear favorite, and I would have turned down the fight after what I saw on the internet. As a man, it will be ugly.
“Have you thought about helping him?”
– Not. For the deeds he has done in life, he pays now. There is no leniency, no compassion, nothing.
– Do you have any regrets for not having had time to fight then?
– Oh, sure. Then I really wanted revenge. I then arrived in a month or two to fight with him in combat sambo, we could have met, but it didn’t work. Immediately there was a very strong desire for revenge, and then everything turned into skirmishes on the Internet.
Is there a desire to continue performing in boxing?
– Listen, here is my last fight with Malik Scott, nobody understood that this fight was revealing. Nobody looked, that the fight wasn’t even going in my stats, that the gloves were 16 oz. Everyone thinks that fight was some kind of principle.
What happened during the reversal?
– I won’t say what happened. [Малик Скотт был нокаутирован странным ударом по печени]. It was an exemplary fight. What is a demo fight – entertaining, so that we entertain people. I wanted to do a fight: MMA fighter against boxing. I know the fight was showy, but why should I go making excuses now?!
Is this your first show fight?
– Yes, this is my first demonstration fight. Somehow, I don’t want anymore. Lots of negativity, lots of criticism. Probably, demonstration fights should be conducted by fifty kopecks, like Mike Tyson with Roy Jones.
– You had an exchange with Petr Yan after his defeat…
“Understand, I don’t want any conflicts, everything is said for him to change his mind a bit, to shake himself up a bit, to remember that he’s a simple guy. Because when you step into the cage, you are no longer a champion. You’re a champion when you get away with a belt. Even if you enter as a champion, you are already an ordinary guy, a competitor. He thinks he won on points, because he positioned himself as a champion, but Sterling was the champion, and on a tie, who gets the win? I don’t want people to say that Sergei Kharitonov does PR there or anything like that. I want our young guys not to play ahead and practice. He was already training in an imposing way, not like for the first fight. Remember how he showed himself in the first fight, he ripped, he made such beautiful throws, and in the second fight he already came out – to wave his arms and win the fight. No matter how he treats me, I hope he pulls himself together and prepares a lot harder.
Sit down and talk to him? Who knows, maybe we’ll sit down and talk, I’m not looking for conflicts.
– You were in the same team as Peter, how do you remember him?
“We will meet one day, and I’ll tell you, it’s for an hour and a half.
– How do you like the victory of Alexander Volkov?
– Well done Sanya, I was in tandem with Rozenstruik in the American Top Team. Sasha plugged in, threw all his … He also took off a little, although he was a simple guy, but his self-confidence jumped a little. And now he rallied, and with new strength, with new preparation, he rallied and won.
Will Volkov be able to become UFC champion?
– Why not? Big, strong, strong. Ngannou? If he endures two rounds, he can easily beat him.
– Do you think that Oleg Taktarov really helped Volkov?
– Yes, it’s a laugh. I don’t want to create conflict, but he came as a wedding general. Kudos guys for not pushing it away. Anyway, he is the first champion of the UFC, it must be admitted, we can bark on the Internet, but he came there as if to remember him. If he helped Volkov or Fakhretdinov somehow, that’s good enough, better than messing around on the Internet.
– Do you think it’s fair that Fedor Emelianenko can now fight for the Bellator title in the last fight?
– If the organization thinks so, why not? Scott Cocker is a fan of age fighters, like me. It’s his business, we only sign contracts with the organization, but do not choose rivals. If Scott Cocker thinks Fedor can fight for the title then why not. We will always support.
– What do you think, what will Fedor’s revenge be with Bader?
“Anyway, not so fast. Can go on forever. The mental attitude will be important. It all depends on where this fight will take place, in Russia it will be easier for Fedor, it is 100%. In America, Bader has more chances, acclimatization is not easy, I go through all this myself.
– Give a prediction for the fight Shlemenko vs Ismailov?
– If something does not happen in the first round, then definitely Shlemenko. If Maga starts, does a jerk, goes to the legs and sits on top and does something grand, even though I don’t believe in pain and suffocation very much… And in the second or third round, I think Shlemenko will endure, take a break. He is a persistent and willful fighter, Shlemenko cannot be broken. He will endure the knockdowns, the struggle and what will happen to Maga in the fourth or fifth round, the fight with Mineev showed.
Source : MatchTV
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