‘I Was Sure I Could Punch A Man In The Face’ – UFC Fighter Opened Up About Street Fighting

UFC fighter Nikita Krylov told in a interview how he got into a street dispute because of his wife.

Krylov competes in MMA in the category up to 93 kg and has a record of 30 wins and 9 losses. The fighter is ranked sixth in the UFC rankings in his weight class. Krylov currently lives in Kislovodsk with his wife and son.

Can you imagine yourself in a street conflict today?

– At the beginning of the summer, there was a situation: my wife called me and told me in a frightened voice that a guy had started to behave very obsessively with her. She was walking with headphones on, he was walking beside her saying something. Like it was even a business. Well somehow it got ugly there, she said she wasn’t interested in talking, they started driving a car next to her. I myself got into the car and went to her. And when I was driving, I was pretty sure I was going and I could punch a person in the face there. I arrive, I see my wife and I see that these two guys are standing 30-40 meters from her. I get out of the car, I go to him, on the way I ask him if it’s him or not, and the first thing I see is the fear in his eyes. I just understand that he shit himself and started running away. And it seems that when I left, I managed to think that you couldn’t hit him in the face, but just “hit through the plywood” (hit the solar plexus – about “”). And then he just started running away, and I got up and thought, why do that? You can simply explain that such acts are punishable. But he ended up running away from me. I took my wife and for a while I thought it was worth punching him if he hadn’t run away. On the one hand, it could protect women from someone else in the future, explain to him what it is all about. On the other hand, I had fights in my youth when I heard a head hit the ground, a hard surface, and I saw that the person was unconscious.

– You had a story when a guy offered to leave, you accepted, but he didn’t go anywhere. And it became clear that he had already lost.

It was in my youth, yes. In the bar. And it looked like there was a guy taller than me. He was taller and weighed 15 kilos more. Like Derrick Lewis. I first had a conflict with some members of his company. Then there was a period when it was already not interesting to fight one-on-one, and we came with a friend to other colonies, and it was there so that your arrival even in a city or region is already seen as a challenge. We may not even have time to enter the club, we have already found ourselves in the local ring and the “mahach” has begun. And in general, I fought with certain guys, I think I beat someone. And I hear someone yelling at me that they’re going to beat me, or “come here”, something like that. I say, “Come on.” I go to him. He sees that I’m not joking and flees to the kitchen of this bar. Waiters and cooks wouldn’t let me go,” Krylov told .

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