Russian fighter and film actor Oleg Taktarov says he was taking the first steps towards his goal, which is still a long way off.
Earlier, TopFight promotion manager Marat Sidikeev told that Oleg Taktarov and Jeff Monson will fight under MMA rules, the contract for the fight has already been signed.
– When two billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg seriously started talking about a possible duel, I thought, why not get back to business. Lately, I’ve been looking for motivation to show what I’m capable of. I couldn’t find it in Mexico, even though I trained there twice a day, but somewhere my food let me down, somewhere I could relax when friends came over. And now I’m satisfied, because I haven’t had any parties lately, there were no friends who could drink in my presence, not a single calorie was consumed that wouldn’t be useful to me.
My weight is 103 kg, and most recently it was 112. I feel like the wind is rocking me now. Recently I decided to play soccer and felt like all the ligaments were torn and I couldn’t really walk on them. The feeling that the body is rebuilding, recovering and reaching a new stage, or rather an old, well-forgotten stage. At one point, I was preparing in Dallas in an aggressive climate for a performance at UFC 5. Then I also lost weight, tore ligaments in my knees, but I was driven by the goal. It wasn’t even a UFC championship, but a path from athletic recognition to Hollywood work. Now I am not preparing to win five kopecks or they said about me that a crazy old man went to fight. I have a goal that is still far away, but these are the first steps towards it,” Taktarov told MMA.Metaratings.ru.
Monson has 60 wins in his MMA career, suffered 26 losses and one other fight ended in a draw. Taktarov, 55, is known as the first Russian fighter to win the UFC Tournament Championship belt.
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