MMA fighter Alexander Sarnavsky in an interview with , he said he wouldn’t say anything offensive about his former coach Alexandra Shlemenko after his harsh words.
Lightweight Sarnavsky has been competing under Shlemenko since 2008. In the summer of 2022, Sarnavsky’s friend Artem Reznikov announced that the fighter was no longer representing Team Storm. Subsequently, Shlemenko spoke harsh words about his former student in several interviews, calling him “ballast” who held the team back for a long time.
On February 23, Sarnavsky will fight for the AMC Fight Nights lightweight title against Magomed Sulumov.
— Your preparation for the fight took place against the background of your conflict with trainer Alexander Shlemenko. In the interview you said that one day you will probably cross paths with Alexandre and that you will continue to shake his hand and talk to him. Have you imagined this meeting, where it could take place?
– I do not know yet. If we see each other, we’ll see where it goes.
– When did you and him miss the moment when it was possible to make peace, talk and shake hands?
– Yes, I didn’t say anything like that to Alexander. I just told him how I stopped being on his team. I didn’t write or say anything else. And I won’t speak.
—Did you think there was a day or a week when you should have called him and talked to him?
– Everything happened so quickly. Besides, at that time I was in Thailand in a training camp.
— After his fight against Ilic, he spoke about you quite harshly. Is this unpleasant for you to watch, given that you were once very close friends?
– This is Alexander’s right, his opinion. There is no such thing. He has his opinion, I have mine.
— In other words, will it be easier for you to remember him as a person who gave you a lot, who laid a foundation in you?
“I have already said that there will be no offensive or humiliating comments from me towards Alexandre. This man really brought me to sports, showed me how to make money, believed in me, because I didn’t even think I would do that. So to say something in his direction is disrespectful and ugly,” Sarnavsky told .
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