Ivan Shtyrkov answered whether he would shake hands with Alexander Shlemenko during their meeting in Yekaterinburg

Russian fighter Ivan Shtyrkov in an interview with , he said that during his meeting with Alexander Shlemenko will come to shake hands, despite the exchange of harsh remarks through the media.

Previously, Shtyrkov, who played in the RCC league, said that he could better develop the career of one of Alexander Shlemenko’s promising students, Andrei Koreshkov, and was skeptical about the training system of the Omsk combat school. In response to this, Shlemenko mentioned that Shtyrkov himself, as director of the Yekaterinburg Academy of Martial Arts, had fundamentally not improved the careers of any of his athletes. On December 15, Shlemenko is scheduled to fight in a tournament in Yekaterinburg against Serbian Alexander Ilic.

— In December, Alexander Shlemenko will come to fight in Yekaterinburg. You will find yourself in the same room. Can you imagine some kind of conversation between you after an exchange of rather critical remarks this summer?

– No. As always, Alexandre doesn’t talk about anything personally. If he has questions, he doesn’t ask me, he doesn’t express dissatisfaction. Regarding our skirmish and my opinion on the training process at Storm School, I will remain skeptical. I have nothing to apologize for. I don’t know what I should talk to Alexandre about; We didn’t usually have conversations.

– Do you want to shake my hand?

— I always come to say hello. Alexandre is older than me, I treated him with respect, it’s true. I will always come and say hello to you first. I have no pride in this regard.

— At the same time, Andrei Koreshkov, who you said would develop his career “a million times better,” usually appears in interviews as a very nice person. Can there be communication with him?

— To be honest, I’ve already talked to Andrei a lot. And I expressed my opinion to him. Like an athlete to an athlete. And nothing like that happened. Then I realized that he wasn’t interested in my opinion, but when asked a specific question, I spoke on camera. I don’t see anything criminal in that. And I don’t see anything that could cause a quarrel. I talked about my vision for the Storm School and Andrey’s career. If he thinks that because of this there is no need to communicate with me, then that’s his business. Andryukha is a kind and open guy. It’s happening as it happened,” Shtyrkov told .

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