Ramazan Ismailov, brother and trainer of the Russian fighter Magomed Ismailova told about the mistakes made in the battle with Vladimir Mineev .
MMA fighters Ismailov and Mineev had an eight-round boxing match on July 20 in Moscow. During the fight, Ismailov was knocked down four times and lost by unanimous decision. Ramazan Ismailov was in the fighter’s corner.
“I think I should take responsibility for the mistake made by the technical staff. Gave the wrong setting before the fourth round. Before that, Muhammad (as Ramadan traditionally calls Magomed – Ed.) was doing everything right. The first three rounds we worked according to one setup, and in the fourth round we set a different task. He tried to do it, and for the first minute it even worked. Before the missed shot. I can’t give you the details, I’m just explaining why I think it was me who made the mistake. This is probably another one of my mistakes: in the sixth round after the third fall, I should have thrown in the towel and preserved my health as much as possible rather than continue to take damage.
Actually, I would like to say that in preparation we focused more on knee rehabilitation. From 7 to 9 in the morning, when he was supposed to box with me, he worked mostly on his knees in order to move and work normally. After such an injury, people can recover for six months. And Muhammad was on crutches two months ago and now he is going to fight. So the third mistake is that we let this fight go on.
The main part of the preparation was to strengthen my knees. So we probably should have taken another month and a half; the time we had was just enough for us to more or less start moving. His legs were dragging behind his arms, he was not moving as well as he could, we could not even connect a skipping rope to the training process, his knees were not working. We could only do static exercises,” Ismailov Sr. told .
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