Russian fighter Anatoly Malykhin after losing to Umar Kane in the title fight at the One Championship 169 tournament, he told that he would return to training in the near future.
The defeat against Kane in the heavyweight title fight was Malykhin’s first defeat in his professional career. The fighter has been performing well since 2016 and is also the One champion in light heavyweight and middleweight (in the fight with Kane, the belt in the category up to 120 kg was at stake). Kane defeated Malykhin by unanimous decision in a five-round fight.
— You said the rematch would take place in March. Is it difficult for you now to visualize the first day of preparation?
– No, it’s not difficult. I will also do everything: fight, box. I’m just going to add a little iron. And all this will happen in turn. I will start the day after tomorrow. Of course, it is not yet certain that the rematch will take place in March. This is just my guess.
I had a good camp, I trained well, I breathed well. My body just wasn’t feeling great this morning.
—Who will you invite for the preparation?
“I think we can go to Ossetia for freestyle wrestling.” There are a lot of heavyweights to work with.
— If you had known how the fight would go, what would you have done differently during preparation?
“I wouldn’t do anything differently.” What is meant for you, you cannot escape.
– What episode of the fight do you remember most clearly – was there such a blow from you that you thought “how did he resist?”
“I remember the whole fight well, clearly. I didn’t miss much, I didn’t swim. He’s got a good jaw, the guy’s never been knocked down, so he held up to my punches. One left side hit me good, but he swallowed it.
— You are a bronze medalist at the Russian freestyle wrestling championship. Why didn’t they move Kane in one of the rounds?
“I was a little tired, my hands were tired, so I couldn’t translate it.” I tried somewhere, but it didn’t work.
— Is Umar Kane a fighter on the same level as Ngannou?
— It’s difficult for me to say this: I didn’t meet Ngannou. I know that Umar Kane is strong, I can say that for sure, and I have never met Ngannou,” Malykhin told .
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