AMC Fight Nights Champion Dmitry Bikrev told why he agreed to fight with his former sparring partner Alexei Makhno.
Bikrev ended his welterweight title fight in the fifth round with a TKO after a long series of punches. After the fight, Makhno told reporters that he did not want to continue communicating with the champion. Previously, the fighters trained together and knew each other well.
– Kamil Gadzhiev has lined up a line of contenders for your belt: Marif Piraev, Goiti Dazaev, Takhir Abdullayev.
“We did all this preparation with Takhir, we have been communicating with him for a long time, we have a good relationship. With Marif too. If you take Makhno, Marif and Takhir, we all trained at the same club, but we have close relations with Marif and Takhir, and with Lekha we did not have a great friendship, so I agreed.When I knew that he was ready to fight me, I did not refuse.
– Alexei was unhappy that your managers believed that the fight with Makhno was easy money for you.
“There were simply no other options. I would like to fight Shlemenko and Yasubi Enomoto, but [в организации] reject these options. They seem to be expensive and unwilling. I had been preparing for six months, and I had to either postpone until the fall or fight. Alexei was the only reasonable option.
– Will you try to talk to him in the next few days after the fight?
Yes, I have no negativity to somehow communicate with him separately. We called each other, I said to him: “Lech, let’s act like professionals. Let’s go out and fight. Let’s shake hands before and after…”. He tries to shake something, as if I’m saying something. I only know one story: they didn’t communicate to me, and the person said that I was ready to fight (probably the manager of Bikreva – ), but I didn’t turn around. Nothing to complain about, he did well, he wanted to win, he went ahead. Which was here is left here, and so we have a lot of friends, we shoot in the same field, we communicate, so I don’t see any reason to develop something, let him fight more,” Bikrev told .
The last defeat in MMA Bikrev was suffered in 2016 by Alexander Sarnavsky. The AMC Fight Nights Champion is currently on a 9 fight unbeaten streak.
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