Russian heavyweight Sergei Bilostenny told how he learned about the fight against his compatriot Denis Goltsov scheduled for June 14 in the United States.
Bilastenny and Goltsov perform at the PFL Grand Prix. As part of the qualifying matches for the group stage, the fighters will face each other at the Uncasville tournament. After the first round, Goltsov is fourth with four points, Bilostenny fifth with three points thanks to his decisive victory over Blagoy Ivanov. Four of the 12 fighters with the most points will advance to the knockout tournament.
— Your fight with Denis Goltsov has been announced. In the PFL Heavyweight Grand Prix, he is the only fighter not on Fedor’s team. Could it be that your managers asked you to fight with him so that you wouldn’t have to fight with your teammates?
“I don’t have such information, and I still don’t understand how this system works, how everything works. As far as I know there are some sort of batches or other ways of forming pairs. But PFL wasn’t sure. Even if they were aware of it, that’s no reason not to bring someone together, it seems to me.
— That is, neither Alexander Skaredin (Bilostenny manager) nor Denis Kurilov (Fedor Emelianenko’s team leader) informed the PFL that it was better for you, Oleg Popov or Valentin Moldavsky, to fight with Denis rather than between them?
“Even if they did, I don’t know.”
—How did you know that this fight was assigned to you?
– Honestly speaking, Fyodor Vladimirovich (Emelyanenko – Note). There was then no announcement. He sent me a message by messenger: “Seryozha, you are fighting with the guys on the 13th, your opponent is Denis Goltsov.” I say: “I understand, I accept it. »
– What happened next?
— We called the guys from Stary Oskol: Valentin, Oleg Popov. They said when they were going to give the training and discussed something in general terms. They told me who they were fighting, I told me who my opponent was, that’s it,” Bilastenny told .
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