Russian MMA fighter Ivan Emelianenko in a conversation with , he named Vyacheslav Datsik “a decent guy”, but he said he wouldn’t like to fight with him.
In September 2022, Datsik knocked out Ivan’s older brother Alexander Emelianenko in a boxing match at a tournament in Moscow. Ivan, 35, will fight on March 1 at a tournament in Moscow according to the rules of boxing with MMA gloves against Ali Heibati.
— Vyacheslav Datsik seems to want revenge on your brother. Were you interested in fighting with him?
— I met Slavik during a previous fight: he is an adequate and good guy. And he’s a heavier weight class than me. He said he weighed 300 pounds. I don’t really want to fight with him.
— I filmed your open workout about a year ago and people in the comments were discussing how your hands work. Someone wrote: “How can he be a master of hand-to-hand sports?” Do you read the comments yourself?
— Sanya posted a photo of me a long time ago, I went in and read the comments. There was good and bad. But even after reading these comments, I realized that it was better not to go there.
— In the 2000s, you won hand-to-hand combat tournaments. Do you think that now that you have resumed your career, has the level dropped significantly?
– I don’t know. I think you will see a new version of me in this fight. I did a lot of sparring and trained well in boxing.
— About the “pictures with you”: your hair was shoulder length. We have the feeling that at the tenth, it was fashionable. Do you remember the moment when you decided to cut your hair and change your image?
“My bald spots started to appear more and more. And it didn’t look very pretty. I liked my haircut, but whether it was fashionable or whether someone liked it, I didn’t care. Although a lot of the athletes I trained with had short haircuts. It’s more convenient for everyone,” Emelianenko told .
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Source : MatchTV
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