“Sanya Povetkin is closest to Tyson’s style.” Fedor’s boxing coach about the Emelianenko – Tyson fight

Stary Oskol coach Alexander Michkov recalls that Fedor came to his gym in 2002 or 2003. Last victory mike tyson in professional boxing was in February 2003. That is, it turns out that Fedor Emelianenko boxing as much as Mike Tyson didn’t.

Now, Fedor Emelianenko has said he will fight a 57-year-old boxer, but even at this age, Mike makes Emelianenko’s boxing trainer think a lot.

– Did you read the main information of this night about Fedor Emelianenko (Fedor spoke with the journalist Helvani around 11:30 p.m. Moscow time on August 9. – “”)?

– He [Федор] I dropped it myself. I just sent a photo.

– What did you answer him?

– I haven’t answered anything yet, even though I’m silent. I’m shocked.

– Did he ever tell you that he wanted such a fight?

– He once said that they offered him a boxing match. There was no talk about opponents, he said no such thing.

– There is no feeling that it is quite in Fedor’s nature to seek risky challenges?

— Yes, he has it.

Will you be ready to train him if such a fight occurs?

– Difficult. It’s up to him – if he wants to, then, of course, I’ll help him. We have been together for 20 years.

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– I often hear that no matter how good a person punches in MMA, boxing is completely different. Do you agree?

– With Tyson, in principle, it is difficult. He has his own style, very few boxers work that way. Especially in Russia, to be honest, I don’t remember such people either among amateurs or among professionals. To prepare for Tyson, you need a training partner with this style. Closer to her we have Sanya Povetkin. I don’t remember. Today I go, I think in the morning on this topic. He is also very unorthodox.

– Fedor fought with Denis Lebedev. Did they box with Povetkin?

– Of course, we know Povetkin, they have been boxing with Denis since childhood, since their youth. We became great friends with his coach. We saw each other several times at the Kursk training camp. I have known him since childhood, from the first steps I have always been friends and went to training.

Did Fedor and Povetkin quarrel?

“Maybe they boxed once. They had joint training in the Moscow region, in Chekhov. I didn’t see it myself, we were just up to something. Before that, Fedya went to training camp and then said that he trained with Chekhov’s guys.

Mike Tyson is 57 years old. Do you think he will always be dangerous in a fight?

Tyson is a gun. How old is he, it doesn’t matter. Even at 77, he will charge so much that your head will fly away, there is no need to count the year. I don’t want to say anything on this subject.

– If you were grooming a person for Tyson, in general terms, what tactic would you use?

– There are many options. Closer to the topic, we’ll sit down, discuss it all… And we won’t tell anyone.

– Will Fedor’s famous right cross in boxing gloves be effective?

“Is he going to tie his hand from behind, or what?” I wouldn’t say there is a huge difference between pro and MMA gloves in terms of size.

– When did you see Fedor in combat for the last time?

– The last training camp was in Sochi, I saw how Fedor boxed. The usual training was to work, to train. I didn’t particularly follow Fedor, because three other people were preparing: Nikita Mikhailov, Vova Tokov and Valentin Moldavsky. Fedor hardly looked.

– Fedor at the top of his form at 30 would he have completed the master of sports in boxing?

– Look, at least he would be an international specialist.

– It’s even difficult to imagine visually, but have you ever seen Fedor in boxers, in professional shoes?

He never had a boxer. Why does he need boxing shoes? We need him to be barefoot. Sometimes the fight was with professional boxers, but then he trained with sneakers.

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