Russian UFC fighter Roman Kopylov told that he plans to conduct the final part of the preparation for the fight with the Brazilian in the United States. Bruno Ferreiro .
Scheduled for August 24, Kopylov’s fight with Ferreira in Las Vegas will be the Russian’s third fight in 2024. Prior to that, at UFC 302, Kopylov defeated Cesar Almeida by split decision. The Russian fighter competes in the middleweight division and will be making his ninth UFC fight.
— You fought on June 1st and almost immediately accepted the fight on August 24th. Why did you decide to come back so quickly?
“I was even offered a fight for July, I said that I needed to rest a little. There were still bruises and bruises, I needed to get myself back in order. To be honest, September would have been ideal, but they gave me August 24 and I looked – nothing seemed to bother me and I started training. The sports commission wrote to me that I just needed to spend two weeks without training, and that’s exactly what happened. Now I started training, I think, for a month and a half of quiet exercises, and my condition will return. And so they just called me and said that there was a fight and there was an opponent. I say ready. I asked the opinion of the team and the coach, everyone made this decision.
— In the last fight, you took rounds because of the fight. Was it difficult to change your profile like that?
— My opponent was a drummer, and it doesn’t happen that you do everything well, anyway there will be some kind of weak side. And with drummers, yes, I already know how to fight quite well. Also, probably, when I arrive about five days before the fight, acclimatization makes itself felt, some strength has left me. And maybe even because of this, we had to make passages somewhere. Now we want to go to America in three weeks, as planned.
— Have you bought your tickets yet?
— No, but the time we have to fly is pretty much clear; we will leave on August 4 or 5. The fight will take place in Las Vegas, there is a gym where I prepared. There is a Thai boxing coach there, Chris, I went to see him last time. He held his paws and invited me to train. Merab Dvalishvili and Alexander Soldatkin trained in his gym. I think we will most likely be based there, ”Kopylov told .
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