Russian heavyweight Adam Bogatyrev noted mistakes in conversation with Anatoly Malykhina in a duel with Umar Kane during the One Champiomship 169 tournament.
On November 9, at a tournament in Bangkok, Malykhin lost by decision to Senegalese Kane and lost the organization’s heavyweight championship belt.
– What can you say about the battle?
— I thought Anatoly would work in a more varied way. Every time he threw more than two punches, he punched. But if he wanted to strike a blow, he constantly fell, his legs were somewhere far away, and his hands were in front. As a result, he entered the clinch, and in the clinch, with all due respect to Anatoly, he either did not eliminate him, or the opponent was too good. Although I can’t even say that Kane was good in the clinch before, because Kirill Grishchenko, who lost to Anatoly, [Кейна] I didn’t feel it during the clinch.
Probably because Anatoly was aiming for a KO and didn’t see any results other than a KO, he only charged for a single hit. Well, as many boxers say: “When you’re looking for a knockout, you’ll never find it.” » Every time he threw his right hand and then caught it with his left, he struck. It was the ending he was missing.
— Anatoly said some rather harsh words about himself in the locker room, as if he was being careful. Did you feel it in any way when you watched it?
– This should only be his opinion. No one knows that better than him, whether he was careful or not. But after each blow, he fell into the clinch. There are also your feelings in combat: I fought with Salimgerey Rasulov and every time he passed, I thought: “If this blow hits, I will be transported to another dimension. » Perhaps he had such feelings.
In the third round, it seemed to me that he had regained his distance, his work. He started hitting and failing. He came forward, threw punches, came out and threw punches again. He had to continue this kind of work and not fail.
– You also don’t understand why Malykhin, with his combat base, did not take his leg and move it?
“At some point he stopped focusing on that. The standard pattern is where wrestlers, trying to compensate for gaps, become attackers and simply stop paying attention to the fight. And struggle is something you have to feel. I think he fought little in the preparation and therefore little in the fight itself,” Bogatyrev told .
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