AMC Fight Nights Middleweight Champion Vladimir Minev appointed Vyacheslav Datsik legendary character and remembered a story related to the first fights of a famous athlete in a Moscow casino.
Mineev is preparing to compete in a kickboxing match against Ivan Shtyrkov on November 18. At the end of October, 42-year-old Datsik lost by knockout in a fight against Pyotr Romankevich.
— Today you met and greeted Vyacheslav Datsik. Did you talk about anything?
– I just said hello. I invited him to come by, he started something: “Kamil… not Kamil.” I didn’t understand it. I know that Slava signed a contract with the armed forces with a unit of our friends from the neighboring battalion.
—Did you meet him for the first time?
– Yes, I have known him since I was 13. I keep an eye on him. Since his moments of madness, when he went to fight in Arbat. There was a funny story: my friend Vasya Salmanov, who today heads the Ulyanovsk Kyokushin Karate Federation, went to fight in Arbat. And Datsik came there to fight without a mouthguard. Vasya says, Datsik comes up and asks: “Do you have a mouthguard? – “Yes” – “Give.”
Vasya gave him his mouthguard, Datsik locked him in it and returned it. I don’t know what Vasya did next with this mouthguard. I think he threw it away. In general, I remember Datsik from that time. “He is a legendary fighter for our sport,” reports a correspondent, according to Mineev’s words.
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