ASA League Champion Yevgeny Goncharov At a press conference after the fight, he explained the passive conduct of the fight of his opponent Adam Bogatyrev with a hard blow in the second round.
Goncharov and Bogatyrev fought at the ACA 178 tournament for the heavyweight championship belt as part of the Grand Prix tournament final. The fight lasted five rounds and from the next five minutes, the reigning champion had the advantage, forcing his opponent to retreat without a blow. All five judges serving the tournament unanimously gave the victory to Goncharov, who defended the championship belt for the second time.
“I probably broke his nose with an uppercut in the second round.” And his image of the fight completely collapsed, he stopped and started to get scared. I already told him: no matter what kind of karate you have, the blow decides. And I know I have a hard blow. Yes, I knocked him out, but to knock out an opponent, you have to catch him. I couldn’t catch him, but I hit him with an uppercut in the second round and that’s it, I took the initiative.
— You have a bandage on your left eyebrow. What difficult things did you miss about Adam?
– I didn’t miss anything at all. Just a kind of teal, like a scratch. It’s like he scratched my eyebrows and that’s it, “the correspondent reports, reporting Goncharov’s words.
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