The first Russian holder of the UFC championship belt Oleg Taktarov talked about the weirdest fight of his career.
– The second fight I had to fight with Pat Smith. Instead, they released Anthony Macias, who had the same manager Buddy Albin as me. Now it also happens, as for example in the fight between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Justin Gaethje. At that time, Albin was the main promoter who selected fighters for the UFC. He took over from Art Davey, and everyone wanted to follow him. Buddy wanted to get his guys across, who he was more interested in. He took at least half of it from Macias and 40% from me.
I fought for them because he wanted more. Macias came out, jumped at my feet and I immediately strangled him. Before that, he came to our gym and we fought with him twice. He constantly asked me about it, but he didn’t represent anything special in either punching technique or wrestling. I also exceeded him in weight, so there were no problems with him. He loses against me and wants again, loses – wants again. Was very boring. Then we became friends with him, and he turned out to be a normal guy, – Metaratings.ru quotes Taktarov.
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