“I was drunk, I was too lazy to go get some vodka.” Alexander Emelianenko pronounces sentences against himself, Goncharov and Datsik

Alexander Emelianenko (either you know him or you should read a separate article) gets a brilliant fight and on April 12 he will fight with Vyacheslav Datsik. They have spoken harshly to each other since 2009, fought twice in 2022 (each time Emelianenko fell) and now have to fight again. Neither a knockout defeat nor six months in a rehabilitation center prevent Emelianenko from achieving victories against Datsik in verbal skirmishes.

— After your first argument, you spoke to each other with a lot of respect, and now unflattering words are pouring in?

“No unflattering words came from my lips.” I have an absolutely good attitude towards all combat athletes. It’s a difficult and difficult job. If a person plays sports, then I already have respect for them. He spends his time playing sports while other people sit in the kitchen or watch TV. My diet: I wake up, eat breakfast, go to the first workout, then eat lunch and sleep, then workout in the evening. After dinner, I have some personal time left. I’m seriously short of time.

—So, what is your attitude towards Vyacheslav Datsik?

“As a person, I didn’t dig gardens with him, I don’t feel anything bad about him.” I don’t know if he throws potatoes in every hole. I didn’t sit at the table with him. I can’t tell if he sucks. As an athlete he is great. I know there is a big slander against him. I am not a supporter of these slanders. And I don’t support people who do that. He also has a difficult and difficult life path, and people just take it out of context and post it. He is a good person and well done.

— It seems that you are tired of communicating with Datsik.

– I’m tired of communicating with stupid people when they try to be arrogant. Show that they know how to joke. I wasn’t tired at all. Sometimes I don’t want to answer certain questions because I hold back. If I start talking, nothing will stop me. I just know more than you about the same Datsik.

He constantly sends me crap. Thank goodness he deleted my number now. Now I went to the Northern Military District, they called me and asked: “Who are you?” But it turns out that Datsik gave it away. And they start communicating with me and talking about Datsik in an unflattering way. Finally, I hang up. Well, how will I communicate with a stranger? Besides, he doesn’t know my relationship with Datsik, or what kind of person he is. We are all imperfect. Let anyone who is not without sin throw a stone at me.

— What changes in your preparation or in your life allow you to hope for a different result in the fight with Datsik?

— And a change of coach, and a change of lifestyle, and a change of team, and the desire to work and work. I don’t know why they write to me that it’s time to stop. I have said it more than once: heavyweights at 40 feel strong and mature. Of course I have injuries that worry me, but they are injuries compatible with life, I can continue to perform and fight. I don’t need to lose weight. These lightweights, the flyweights, have to constantly run and win, run and win, but look how many champions we have. Take Mike Tyson, how old is he? 57! It will give any young man a head start. I just started playing, I just started fighting. I’m still going to run.

— Vyacheslav Datsik injured his hand, did you take this into account during preparation?

— I didn’t take it into account at all. It seems that this is not something that needs to be stressed a little. He not only has an injury to his hands, he also has major head trauma, head problems. I don’t know why you’re looking at his hands. Look at his face. Everything will become clear to you right away.

— Evgeny Goncharov, ASA champion, called your rematch with Vyacheslav Datsik an abnormal fight. What would you say to him?

– What kind of champion is this? Who is it? Did you see his last fight? How did he walk? He had already fought and was deprived of his fees. We decided to have a sort of second fight. I sat and looked – I spat. He walked down the line and stepped on his penis. Either him or his opponent… They hit him ten times in total. The monster himself is Evgeniy Goncharov. When I trained with him, he would run to the other end of the gym so I wouldn’t hit him. Clown and devil.

— By the way, he expressed a desire to fight according to the rules of boxing. Would you be ready to meet him in this discipline?

“I tell you: a clown and a devil.” Let him prepare. Let them negotiate with the organizers if they contact me with a fair and valid proposal. It is personalities like Goncharov who disgrace mixed martial arts. First, with these conversations. Who is he telling this to? He can sit somewhere in Rostov, in the alleys with gopniks, drug addicts, drug addicts, drug addicts. And before that, ask again: “Don’t tell anyone, it will be a secret. » Second, what kind of fighting does this show? Fights that put MMA to shame. They go out and get up. I was spitting, I was at Nikitos (Emelianenko’s manager – ), he was watching this fight, but I couldn’t finish watching this pornography. Goncharov simply won. He’s some kind of champion. I would strip champions of their championship belts for such fights. Cast such a shadow on sports – let them sit at home and eat dumplings.

— Have you seen that Anatoly Malykhin recently became the three-time champion of League One?

— Anatoly Malykhin is a great guy. I watched his fight and congratulated him. Showed a good fight. And I also saw that such envious people were talking there. I don’t know why toads attack people and strangle them. Why can’t they be happy for our man who went and got the best results? Good game. Nice fight.

— Sergei Kharitonov spoke…

– Next question… Hello to Kharitonov (shows thumb).

— You were on Mount Athos in 2013, and now you are going to the Iman recovery center. How was the recovery different in each case?

– Well, you know how… I was at the Iman center, there is a special program that works on addiction. If you accept it honestly and sincerely, then you analyze yourself, your past experience – and two roads are available to you. One route is what you had when you were drinking, and the second is what would have happened if, for example, you hadn’t been drinking. And you just look at yourself in a sober state and think: “If I didn’t drink, I would be like this, and if I worked out, I would be like this.” And I got drunk – and I had already reached the point where I was too lazy to get up and go to the store to buy vodka. I called this very specially trained person: the intercom is such and such, bring me some vodka, whiskey, something else to eat there, I won’t close the door, if I fall asleep, put down the bags and leave. I transferred the money and went to bed. I wake up with a headache. I look around me: he came, he didn’t come. I look, the packages have arrived. And this program shows that it is better to live without alcohol. We try to find some kind of excuse for ourselves: that I’m tired or my nerves are on edge, or that the company is fun. We must learn from children. They don’t hold grudges for long. We relax, we laugh, we get to know each other without any sedative that could change us or our state. We think we’re having fun, but we’re killing ourselves. And then I realized that I was leading a bad lifestyle, that I first had to fight with myself, with my head. As I have said more than once, the most difficult opponent for me in life is myself. The most important thing is to conquer yourself and your weaknesses.

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