Russian bantamweight fighter Rakhim Midav in an interview with he said he could defeat the new UFC champion Shauna O’Malley if such a duel is organized.
O’Malley knocked out Sterling on Saturday at UFC 292 in Boston (USA) and became the promotion’s new bantamweight champion. Earlier, the American fighter by a controversial court decision won the fight against Peter Yan in Abu Dhabi.
How would you fight O’Malley?
– I would move, I would work on footwork. Then I would try to fight him. I would understand that it is a bit more difficult to knock him down, but if he succeeds once, he won’t be able to get back up. O’Malley’s build is such that it will be better to defend than to recover. The first task is to knock him down, then I would understand that it would be difficult for him to get up.
– How do you visualize the victory over O’Malley?
– I would have submitted it 99% (I brought it to the reception. – “”): north-south, a triangle crossing the arm – I executed this technique twice in my fights. If you knock O’Malley down, take side control, and do a crucifixion, he won’t come out of that position. It would be possible to crucify him and finish him off.
“Do you think you can beat O’Malley?”
– 99% yes.
Rakhim Midaev is 28 years old, his statistics in MMA are 12 wins and 1 loss. In his last fight he beat Vyacheslav Svishchev.
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