“Now I understand how he won” – UFC fighter Tyulyulin about the fight with Fedor Emelianenko

Russian middleweight Denis Tyulyulin speaking at the UFC, told he trained with Fyodor Emelianenko .

Tyulyulin has been in the UFC since 2022 and lost in his last fight against Korean Yun Yong Pak. The Russian will next face Brazilian athlete Gregory Rodriguez at UFC 292 in Boston. As part of the preparation, Tyulyulin held two training camps with Fedor Emelianenko and his team.

– You trained in Sochi in the team of Fedor Emelianenko. Nikita Krylov, who was also at these training camps, said that Fedor was opening up to a completely new fight: much more sociable, humorous. Did you feel it?

– Certainly! We didn’t know each other at all before I went, and it opened in a different way, many don’t know it like that. Sociable, ready to support, help in the training process. He is a person who is interested in your victory, in your fulfillment. In addition, he is sociable, but during training there is the most rigid discipline. Communication, help, error analysis – after. After training, we could already laugh, discuss, joke.

Did you manage to train with him?

– Yes, of course, even at the first training camp [в Приэльбрусье].

– Many who watched his last fight now say with confidence that Fedor does not shoot at a certain level. Could you refute it?

– Yes, that’s nonsense. I am going to explain. Yes, somewhere he had a defeat, many professional athletes have defeats, a person loses for various reasons, we will not list them. It is clear that there are professional athletes who start with a zero. Every sport has them. And someone walks away with that zero. But others continue to perform, people get high, fight as hard as they can. And about Fedor – I recently read about boxing (Emelianenko spoke about the desire to compete under the rules of boxing against Mike Tyson – ), but I believe that he can compete in MMA.

And at the training camp it was like this: at seven in the morning, exercises – he was doing exercises. The first, the second training – he is also with us all the time. So it was at these training camps, and the previous ones as well. Perhaps due to age there are nuances in recovery, there are injuries. I don’t know them, but I see that the person is constantly with us, is doing it.

– What is the main difficulty when you train with him?

– Serialization, what he had in battles; it hits well in series. You can tell I felt what he used to win, how he did it. He is faster, very fast for a heavyweight. I think the heavyweights were coming out and just couldn’t keep up with him. It is clear that now we can think and think about what it was like, but his speed is very serious, ”Tyulyulin told .

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