Fedor will watch my fight. Alexander Emelianenko – about Shlemenko, Datsik and his weekend

Alexander Emelianenko organizes his last fights according to different rules: at the end of 2019 – a fight against Mikhail Koklyaev according to the rules of boxing. Fall 2020 – with Artem Tarasov in a cage and MMA gloves, but no wrestling or kicking. November of the same year – defeat of Marcio Santos in an MMA fight at the Fight Nights tournament in Syktyvkar.

Now Emelianenko must organize a boxing fight against Vyacheslav Datsik, with whom the conflict has been going on for more than 10 years, and then fight with Antonio Silva (19-14 in MMA), who beat Fedor Emelianenko in 2011. Silva is currently on a seven-fight streak in MMA, but how his fight against Emelianenko, who turns 41 in August, will play out is really a big mystery.

How are your Sundays going now?

I lie down and rest, getting ready for Monday. I try to tire myself as little as possible, because there is a very large amount of work, the workouts are more and more voluminous, each time I add more.

– You often have videos of the bath. where do you smoke

– I really like [название банного комплекса на западе Москвы]: they don’t bite on prices, and the steam is very good there, and the team there will cleanly take a steam bath, professional.

– You mentioned prices – are you going on a general basis, without discounts?

– They don’t give discounts. I was surprised – I went there generally, like everyone else. And one day, the one who accepts the calculation walked up and just said, “You get a discount from the owner.” There even seems to be a hostess in these baths.

– How many passes do you make?

– Depending on my health, usually five or six, and I like to jump into the ice pool right away. If possible, I take a steam bath with a broom, I like a contrast shower when I leave the steam room in the cold and immediately return to the steam room.

– Sundays?

– The Saturday. On Sunday you need to recover, and the bath is also like a workout. It’s very exhausting, and on Sunday you have to recuperate, sleep, lie down to prepare for Monday.

“Do you spend more time in Moscow or Yekaterinburg now?”

– More in Yekaterinburg, I live and train there, I spend two training sessions a day, I arrived in Moscow today one day, in the evening I will fly to Yekaterinburg.

I train alone. In the morning I have a 5-6 kilometer cross country and boxing work, shadow boxing. In the evening, a bag, a jump rope and also shadow boxing. For now, I’m just getting bigger.

– No contact combat yet?

No, but they are not needed yet. We will start next week. I will work with professional boxers, with professional wrestlers, in principle I will work with a professional group.

– How many turns on the bag did you do?

– Hour. For the last time I jumped for half an hour on a jump rope, stood for half an hour on a bag and 10 minutes for a press.

– You have a big scar on the bridge of your nose. In an interview with Sport 24, you said it was in sparring. Who did you train with?

Let’s skip this question.

– After the fight with Monson on February 23, you almost didn’t give interviews – what did you do during this time?

– Yeah, which I just didn’t do. I went to my parents in Stary Oskol and spent time with my beloved and did not leave the gym in Moscow. I worked there. I’m tired of giving interviews, because everyone asks the same questions, you will speak now, then others will come and ask the same question. It’s easier for me to get everyone together and answer a question for all of you.

– Mom in Stary Oskol watches your fights?

“He tells me he’s not looking. In fact, constantly aware of where I am, what I’m doing. Constantly calls: “Where are you, my son?” I say: “I train in Yekaterinburg.” And the next day again. We are constantly in contact.

– The last time you fought Monson bare-knuckled. How do you like this fight?

“Jeff Monson is like a competitor – he’s just got a solid rubber head. He’s taken a lot, but boxing isn’t for him. His is wrestling, MMA, there he can still do something. thing, translate, do tricks. Functionally, he is well prepared, robust. He has not yet learned to box.

– You quickly knocked out Koklyaev, and with Monson there was a full fight. Is it because the fight with Koklyaev taught you to feel sorry for your opponents?

– The task wasn’t to knock Monson out. I understood that he was already retired, I wanted to stretch this fight as long as possible and show people the show. And it turns out that I hurt it a little, cut it. He himself also broke his fists – his hands hurt badly and healed for a very long time.

After this fight, I refused to fight with bare hands, it’s very easy to get injured there, and it will be such an injury that will put you out of action for a long time. There is no desire to fight with bare hands anymore, I prefer to fight in MMA, there is at least some kind of protection there.

– You have to fight Vyacheslav Datsik and Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. Do you know when they will be?

No, I don’t understand yet. First some numbers speak, then something is transferred, then it is transferred again. I know there will be Datsik in boxing first, then there will be a fight with Bigfoot under MMA rules.

Your brother fought Bigfoot in February 2011. Do you remember where you watched that fight?

– Of course I remember. Watched at home. Bigfoot was in good shape then, now as far as I know he lost his shape, stopped training. Only external data remained that it is large. Functionally, I don’t know how it’s ready, but it’s not that way anymore.

– Aren’t you afraid that he can win just by fighting?

– I’m ready. Ready to work in both top and bottom stalls.

– You shook hands with Datsik half an hour ago. Can we say that your conflict has turned into a working relationship, when you both understand that together you can earn several million rubles by helping each other?

– We go out to fight to show people that we are good fighters. Some are remembered for biting, barking, throwing themselves at each other during press conferences. People remember me for good fights and good performances. I don’t need to throw mud on my opponent before the fight.

– With what weight will you go into battle?

– Now I have a weight of 117 kg, the fat is melting and the muscles are in place. I think that will be my optimal weight, and then we will see.

– Vagab Vagabov suddenly told what Vyacheslav Datsik was doing in the remand center (according to Vagabov, Datsik knocked out the confessions of other prisoners. – “”). Are you interested in this part of its history?

– I’m usually not interested in what he did in prison, how he was. The main thing is that this time has passed, that these bad weather have passed, that he is free again, in sport and that he feels good. I watched his fights, his fight with Bigfoot, studied his fighting style, how he throws the attack, what hand he punches with. I studied it.

– Alexander Shlemenko said that it would be difficult for you to get in shape, don’t you think he just motivates you with his interviews?

– No, I do not think so. I understand that Shlemenko is only remembered when he talks about Emelianenko. They don’t talk about him anymore. No matter what he does, no matter how he organizes his training, they only begin to remember him when he talks about Emelianenko. Same for the rest of the fighters. As soon as he started talking about Emelianenko, everyone immediately wants to ask Emelianenko himself later and see the reaction. Shlemenko does not interest me at all.

– You said it was wrong to see the fight with Bigfoot as revenge for Fedor, but would you like Fedor to see this fight?

Fedor will watch. Although he won’t admit that he watches my fights, I know he will watch this fight.

– How do you know?

– By the parents, by his environment. He thinks I don’t know about his life, but I even have spies around him who tell me what, how and where is going on.