One of the boldest news about Fedor Emelianenko that came out in July: Fedor won’t be able to fight in Russia for the last time. The main thing is that the Bellator League has so far refused to hold tournaments on the territory of the Russian Federation, and Emelianenko intends to have another fight in Bellator. It was said that in this fight he could officially retire from MMA. An alien or an artificial intelligence can argue about the impossibility (!) for Emelianenko to end his career in Russia, since formally Fedor can end his career tomorrow and then his last fight will automatically be the fight in Moscow (November 23). Or, for example, agree with Bellator to terminate the contract by mutual consent and fight another fight anywhere. One of Fedor’s main sparring partners, Kirill Sidelnikov, sheds light on another scenario.
– At the moment, Fedor trains every day in Moscow, we have communication within the team via chat. He prepares, keeps in shape. I think it will be possible to talk about full-fledged preparations when at least some clarity with the date appears. In the meantime, he trains, runs, goes to the gym. Like always.
– Can we assume that the preparation will start when he arrives in Stary Oskol?
No, that’s wrong to say. He also trains in Moscow, there are rooms where he comes. Stary Oskol is only one of the stages of preparation. After all, we can go to Kislovodsk for training camps.
– There are people in Moscow he can train with – is it hard to imagine his sparring somewhere outside your gym?
– It is better to ask this question to Fedor. I can only assume there are.
– Have you heard of him wanting to end his career? Will there be a last fight?
“Here, you understand, there may be one, and there may be more. Nobody knows for sure. Fedor himself probably cannot say for sure that he will definitely leave. Let’s imagine he now fights with Ryan Bader, takes and wins against the defending champion. What’s the point of leaving then if he just beat a champion who is a really tough fighter? Turns out Fedor is still hoo and can do so much more. It is therefore possible that this will not be the last fight.
Everything is possible, I tell you that even if everything is a fork in the water, so far there are no details on any side. We can only reason and dream about many things. In fact, these are the words we say to ourselves. Thoughts of two people.
– Is there information from Bellator on at least one date lane for the Fedor fight?
– There is no such thing. Even, you know, we can’t hear from Vadim Nemkov when he has a fight with Corey Anderson. I think Vadim will fight first and a little later we will hear about Fedor.
What’s going on with the Nemkov vs Anderson fight
Vadim Nemkov is the only fighter on Fedor’s team who currently has an American organization belt. Their fight with Corey Anderson ended in a no win due to an illegal headbutt. At the same time, the episodes before the impact were not in favor of Nemkov. Cyril found Vadim in Fedor’s team, even when he trained at a very young age, and since then they have communicated warmly. Bellator himself can fight Sidelnikov in September at a tournament in Ireland, but for this it is necessary that the representative office of Ireland in Moscow approves a visa for the Russian fighter. As Kirill recovers from his illness and begins training.
– You told us that you advised Vadim Nemkov to train with someone else before the rematch with Corey Anderson: “We won’t give you anything new here.” I myself asked Vadim if there were plans to invite an American wrestler to the training camp and train with him. And Magomed Ankalaev – the whole Internet advises him to help you – advised Vadim to train for endurance.
– Vadim and I often talk about it, but a specific conversation will appear when there are specific dates. Although there are no dates, we can talk about anything. We discussed with him that it would be good to train with Tolya Malykhin, he has excellent wrestling (League 1 champion, Russian championship medalist in freestyle wrestling). But all this will become clearer when it is possible to prepare for a specific date.
As for the American wrestler, look, we know Anatoly Malykhin. We know what he is capable of, we trained with him. The same Magomed Ankalaev and many other fighters with whom Vadim worked. We know them too. Or, for example, they were at training camp with Magomed Ismailov, suddenly we realize that Magomed now weighs a hundred, one-leg passes are his way, and Vadik will be told that this option is worth be tried.
And just call a wrestler – and if he’s out of shape, and if something else goes wrong. They have a slightly different mentality, and all the preparation can go down the drain.
Source : MatchTV
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