Dudakova’s coach told how he defended the athlete during a fight with a man

Trainer Hasanali Hasanaliev works with UFC fighter Victoria Dudakova told how he defended a Russian athlete during a fight with a man in a Thai gym.

At UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi, Dudakova will fight American Jean Yu Frey on October 21. The Russian athlete is undefeated in seven professional fights. Dudakova trained for the fight in Thailand, but previously admitted she would not want to train in that country in the future.

— Victoria said you almost got into a fight with another trainer, who decided to spar against her.

— There were girls there – 300 thousand followers on social networks, local stars in this room. English women, who participate exactly in Muay Thai. Vika knocked out one in the liver, but not the other. And he, weighing about 90 kg, went into battle. And she has such a way – she doesn’t back down. She presses. Like everyone who has difficulty translating. And I saw that she had been hit once, a second time, a third time. I see he just lowers his head and nods. And he misses these tricks. I said to him: “What are you doing?!” Why are you doing this ? »

— Did you tell him in Thai?

– Not really. Well, I got a little emotional there. But then he came himself and apologized, although our manager had already explained everything to him.

— From the outside it looked like Victoria Dudakova was fighting with a man, right?

– …which weighs 90 kg. All the same, a man who hits is dangerous. There are also sparrings like that, when there are 3-4 couples in the ring, you can’t really go into the corners, there is contact all the time. The whole round turned out to be contact, despite the fact that Vika also hit him. She took another step, he flew away: he tried to take the Thai clinch, she took his hand and threw him with a wrestling movement. And the Thais are strong in the clinch, but here the clinch did not work against wrestling.

– You yourself are a professional veteran – do you think that training a girl is a special skill?

– Well, as it happens with strong girls, there is a day that does not go well, they need to cry, eat ice cream, chocolate. But the next day, she becomes a fighter again.

– Can you cancel training if you see that Vika is not in a good mood?

– Yes of course. “Go home” and that’s it. You shouldn’t be your own enemy. The old methods no longer work that way. Vika is a swimmer, she swam 12 km per day, you understand what volume that represents. I remember when there was Covid, she fainted during sparring. I then took her out of the fight, because after Covid, it took three months to recover. There is an overload, when there is an overload there are injuries, so you have to stop and rest, Gasanaliev told .

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