russian athlete Irina Alexeeva after her UFC debut, she spoke in an interview with about the difference in strength between women and men.
Alekseeva won her first UFC fight against Switzerland’s Stephanie Egger with a leg submission. Earlier, in an interview with , the girl told about street fights in which she managed to defeat male opponents.
“After all, a peasant is a peasant, no matter how dead and skinny. I’ll give you an example – the wheel had to be unscrewed from the car, I take a cross and try this nut this way and that, and I weigh less than 80 kg. And just my friend, 58 kg, 150 cm, takes the key, “pooh-pooh” and that’s it. Masculine strength can in no way be compared to feminine.
– What if the guy isn’t prepared?
– Well, here, of course. [можно победить]. I had those fights. I had a neighbor, I broke his head with a stone. I told him not to climb on our territory: “If you climb again, I will dirty the tower with bricks.” And he took it and climbed in, “during a show off”, he decided to take me. Well, I took him in silence and threw a huge stone on his head.
– You trained in Grozny, how were you treated there?
– I spent a month there in January, Diana called me [Авсарагова] help her get ready for the fight, but we weren’t there that often in pairs, the coach put more with the boys. But I was there: all the guys pair up, help. They work very carefully, because they understand that no matter how strong we are, we are girls. It happened that, by chance, someone did not hold back, and somewhere he “pulled”, and then: “Oh, sorry.”
– Is it really possible to catch a guy at a reception if he is a professional fighter?
— Yes, I attended many receptions. On your feet. It’s those sambo tokens. And the boys fell on it. And they were surprised: “Oh, everything, everything,” Alekseeva told .
Alekseeva made her MMA debut in March 2019 and has had six professional fights, losing just one by decision.
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