About Oleinik’s fight
right now in the stats Alexei Oleinik 78 professional MMA fights: 60 wins, 17 losses and 1 draw. Oleinik, 45, has had 17 UFC fights, winning 9. The 79th professional heavyweight fight could have been in Moscow, but when asked if that fight would become an official professional bout, Oleinik said replied with a laugh that he didn’t know. Now we can definitely say that Oleinik knew the fight wouldn’t be like this.
The fights that took place in Moscow on May 26 in the Dynamo volleyball arena were replaced by MMA fights, but in fact they took place under the auspices of the WTKF (World Total Kombat Federation) of Vladimir Khryunov, where the fight continues for three rounds. of three minutes each, and on the ground among the fighters have a limited time. It was not possible to find a complete list of rules, because the organization’s website is not working and only the time and number of rounds are indicated on social media resources. It was also possible to establish that the organization was registered in 2019 in Switzerland.
Maybe Aleksey Oleinik knew about it, but preferred not to talk about it, so as not to spoil the tournament poster. Together with Oleinik, the Emelianenko brothers fought in the same cage, and each of them had their own story: Ivan Emelianenko seemed to have his first fight under MMA rules, and Alexander was to achieve his first MMA victory in a long time. And here it is important to say: the fights of Emelianenko and Oleinik will definitely not be considered professional fights under the rules of MMA. To do this, the round must be five minutes or more, and there must be no time limit on the court. Vladimir Khryunov himself, answering the question whether Oleinik’s fight would enter the official statistics, said the following:
I have such connections. How do you want? Indeed, the tournament is sanctioned by the federation, which has agreements with Sherdog (the main statistical resource MMA. – ). Look how beautiful it was today. Simply because those are the rules. Reduced ground time, modified battle time. But let some of you say it’s not interesting. It’s not interesting for me when you can lie down for five minutes. And here you need to constantly perform technical and tactical actions.
WTKF fights are indeed mentioned on the Sherdog site, but the last tournament listed in the database is from 2021. are included in the statistics, recognized as fights under the full rules of MMA, while the tournament card is usually 10-5 fights. .
About Oleinik’s knockout
The problem is that the fight between Alexey Oleinik and Oli Thompson was the only duel between two self-sufficient active MMA fighters and received a final whose meaning does not depend on the rules. Thompson knocked out Oleinik. This knockout would have been fixed by any rules. The nuances, of course, include that 15 seconds before the denouement, Oleinik was not allowed to transfer Thompson to the ground, but Alexei himself said before the fight that he would be ready to fight even without a fight, only in the position. From a standing position, Oli Thompson aimed about 4-5 times with a long straight cross and hit 30 seconds before the end of the first round. And it was a pure knockout. After the fight, Thompson said he was trying to do the same right as boxer Saul Alvarez, nicknamed Canelo, punches, and, answering a question from , he offered a fight under boxing rules. to Alexander Emelianenko:
– In the next few months, we were going to have a boxing match with Alex Emelianenko. It’s interesting to me. I would go home to England, train there and finish my training in Moscow at the Gore MMA gym.
– Are you going to give something to Alexander?
– I wish him good luck today, I wish him to win today, I think we will have an interesting confrontation in the big gloves.
– How many rounds?
– Six rounds, please.
And above all, Thompson thanked the Gore MMA room, which received him in Moscow. Few people noticed this detail, but the Hall of Gor Azizyan was also once depicted by Aleksey Oleinik. Now Gor Azizyan (the gym’s founder), Bogdan Guskov (MMA fighter, 8 wins, 2 losses) and Maxim Dushanin (muay thai trainer) were in Olya Thompson’s corner and rejoiced when Olya knocked out Oleinik.
– What is your relationship with Alexei Oleinik now? – a question to Gor Azizyan.
– None. We used to work together. He represented our club, then he started “not representing”. He said he didn’t know us…
– Was it fundamentally good for you to prepare his opponent?
“From a commercial point of view, there is nothing fundamental. We help everyone. And from the point of view of history – maybe.
– The blow delivered by Oli Thompson, did you understand that Oleinik missed it?
– Certainly.
– About those trainings that Alexey conducted for you?
– Olya is in our room for the fifth day, although we asked him to come earlier, but he could only do it. She and Max worked with me. Bogdan Guskov helped him, the brother of Johnny Walker (UFC fighter. – “”), Walter Walker.
– You were preparing this blow directly, did you know that it would come?
– We’ll post a video later, who cooked what.
Aleksey Oleinik traditionally does not speak after defeats. The return to Russian promotions after a 10-year hiatus proved inconsistent. Oleinik could not pass under Vysotsky, even at a press conference the fighter was told that the organizers had no rights to the song “Ballad of the Fight” (Oleynik came out to this song for 17 fights at UFC), then he fought under strange rules and lost by knockout to the fighter, who hasn’t won four fights in a row. Whether Aleksey will continue to fight in MMA seems like an obvious question for a fighter’s first interview, but Aleksey certainly won’t be answering anything in the weeks to come except to ponder. At the same time, in Russian MMA there no longer seems to be anyone who would so deserve a full-fledged farewell duel under the full-fledged rules of mixed martial arts.
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