former director Fedor Emelianenko Vadim Finkelstein told how he took the famous photo of a Russian mixed martial arts fighter and an American boxer mike tyson .
Finkelstein worked with Emelianenko from 2002 to 2013 as a manager and was involved in organizing Fedor’s fights in the United States and Russia after the collapse of Pride, where the fighter spent most of his fights. On Aug. 9, Emelianenko, who ended his MMA career, said he would be willing to set up a boxing match against the former world champion in multiple versions of Tyson. Previously, the American often spoke respectfully of Emelianenko, and in 2006 they took a joint photo in Las Vegas.
– This [фото сделано]when Pride held a show in Las Vegas. Fedor was supposed to fight Mark Coleman (October 21, 2006; Thomas and Mac Center arena – about “”). There was some sort of pre-fight event at a bar. We’re not very good at English, so we just exchanged a few words. Mike then seemed to support Fedor, he treated him with respect, saying he was number one. In addition, the photo was taken on my film camera, I even remember that I always took it with me and then took the film to be developed. It seems that in Holland I printed them, there were still such devices that you could choose how many copies you would like, and I put which photos.
– Fedor said he would like to box with Mike Tyson. Curious to see a fight like this?
Either way, that would be interesting. I don’t really know about Tyson.
– Tyson is 57 years old, and they say he smokes a little… excessively.
– Yes, age takes its toll, Fedor will have an advantage here, because he keeps himself in shape and does not smoke …
Fedor Emelianenko is 46 years old, his statistics in MMA are 40 wins, 7 losses.
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