World champion and one of Russia’s most successful kickboxers Vladislav Tuinov spoke about the knockout in an interview with Islam Makhacheva in battle with Alex Volkanovski after being kicked in the head.
Makhachev defended his UFC lightweight championship belt for the second time at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi in a fight against Volkanovski. In the first round, Makhachev threw a high kick, hitting his opponent in the head, and ended the fight in the fourth minute. In the first fight, the Russian won by unanimous decision after five rounds.
— I watched it live and it was really cool. During the fight, I saw how Islam directly teaches low blows and body blows. I thought, “He’ll probably try to translate it in his head.” » Because it’s a cool job when you’re standing in the opposite position and you’re directly doing those middle kicks to make your opponent take their hands off a little bit. And Volkanovski, it seems to me, slept a little during this blow. Yes, he raised his hand, perhaps hoping the blow would hit the shoulder. But overall, he didn’t hold out his arms or cower in defense. In principle, he didn’t expect this blow to come to his head. Even though everything was going well at school.
— Does the length of camp affect reflexes? Conventionally, if Volkanovski had trained for 7-8 weeks, would he have had a greater chance of seeing such a punch?
– In principle, Volkanovski perhaps did not expect that Islam would catch him with his back foot and try to target him with this blow. He probably assumed that there would be handoffs, attempts to overwhelm, maintain and prolong the fight. It seems to me that he was assuming that Makhachev’s team expected that Alex’s features would not last long. But generally speaking, it is clear that the longer the preparation, the more points you can develop and prepare your opponent.
— Shara Bullet said Makhachev hit the top of the head very well. Do you think it was planned that way or did it just happen that way?
“It seems to me that, technically, Islam has launched an upward blow; he didn’t specifically want to hit the top of the head, but simply hit the high kick along an upward trajectory. His low kick was the same, in a low-to-high trajectory, and he delivered it to the head the same way. Maybe it has such a specific application. It seems to me that if we imagined that in the end he would have decided to twist it to the end and hit it better, it could have ended in a deeper knockout, ”Tuinov told .
Tuinov, 25, has won several world championships and has a 44-5 record in professional kickboxing.
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