“We decided not to switch to the local time zone, we lived by Omsk time.” Koreshkov told how he helped Pulyaev acclimatize to the United States

Russian fighter Andrei Koreshkov, in a conversation with , told how he helped Andrei Puliaev undergo acclimatization in the United States.

Koreshkov, with manager Alexei Zhernakov, became the second for Pulyaev, 26, who made his debut on the Dana White Contender Series show on August 27 in Las Vegas and received a contract with the UFC, defeating Liam Anderson by unanimous decision. For a Russian fighter, this fight was the first fight in the United States.

“I won’t hide it, I was worried about Andrey. He is a strong athlete, but this is his first experience of performing outside of Russia. Moreover, on the other side of the ocean with such a change in time zones. We didn’t have much time to acclimatize, so we decided not to change the local time zone, just to avoid this adaptation. And they lived according to Omsk time: they slept during the day and were awake at night. It’s good that we live near the casino – all the cafes are open at night, you can walk and watch people play poker.

— In the third round, your advice was particularly well heard. You demanded that Pulyaev not end up on the ground, but get up and fight standing.

“We have seen many examples of people who manage to lose a battle that is almost won. Here it was as if: the attitude was to avoid fighting, because the opponent’s strong side is the ground. And in a standing position, almost all of Andrei’s blows hit the target. And when, for some reason, he went to the ground to finish, when the opponent began to throw his leg on the triangle, I began to fight a little. We did a lot of work before the fight, and then it took almost 40 hours to travel from Omsk to Las Vegas. And if we had lost the battle in such a situation, I would have simply exhausted myself.

That’s why I started screaming to get up. Yes, Andrey is tired, because this is only the third fight in his career, where he worked all three rounds. And, of course, it seemed to him that if he went to the ground, then he could lie down there and catch his breath, but it was a self-deception. The opponent is a strong guy, I’m not saying it, but he was much more tired from these missed punches.

But in general, Andrey worked competently and heard the angle well. This is evident even in the episodes when I invited him to strike not just with a kick to the head, but with a “question” (the trajectory of the blow is similar to a question mark – “”) – Andrey immediately struck and hit the target. In this regard, he is great. As for his fatigue, it seems to me that he received more blows in this fight than in his entire career, “Koreshkov told .

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