UFC strawweight Victoria Dudakova in an interview with , she responded to a popular internet comment about female fighters.
Before her MMA career, Dudakova, 24, was a swimmer and a member of the Russian national team at an age. Due to lack of progress, Dudakova ended her swimming career and focused on martial arts. In 2023, the athlete debuted in the UFC and won two victories.
— Bad guys periodically write to female fighters: “I wish I could cook borscht. » Could you cook borscht?
– Yes I can. Because I need to eat well. I like chicken soup more and prepare it more often, but I can also make borscht.
— Your coach, speaking about you, said that you need to find an approach with the girls, and as an example, he mentioned that in preparation, there may be a day when you need to leave yourself alone to be able to go eat ice cream. Is ice really useful?
– Yes, if Hasanali goes too far. I take diet and all that seriously. But sometimes he tries to squeeze me even tighter into a frame, and I told him right away that I won’t squeeze anymore. I have a box of frames, but I’m not ready to squeeze it any tighter. And he, for example, can say: “Let’s go on a diet even earlier. » Not because I have problems with my diet, but because he wants to further improve the discipline. Now, after the fight, I can go to bed at one o’clock, but this is the maximum during which I deviate from the regime: I don’t go anywhere, I spend time at home. I would rather read a book than go to a public place.
Plus, I’ve now discovered grocery delivery from the store and I’m not going anywhere. So in that regard, I am disciplined. And with Hasanali, it happens that he wants to lock me even more into a framework. But now he’s also started to understand that sometimes it’s better not to intervene if I’m having a bad day. I prefer to go eat ice cream or chocolate. But even that is not in the works. There, I will not allow myself to do that. A piece of chocolate may not hurt, but it’s important. And so I recently had a struggle day – nothing worked. I went and bought myself some chips, called my mother and cried. Mom says, “Okay, calm down. “I calmed down and everything was fine the next day,” Dudakova told .
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