Russian boxer Magomed Kurbanov said he reflected a lot after his first defeat of his career and returned to training with renewed vigor.
On Saturday in Yekaterinburg, Kurbanov will meet his compatriot Aslanbek Kozaev in the main fight of the RCC Boxing Promotions tournament. For Kurbanov, this fight will be the first after losing the fight for the WBA junior middleweight world championship belt with Israil Madrimov of Uzbekistan in March this year. Magomed is ranked seventh in the WBA rankings, the boxer has 25 victories and one defeat. Kozaev has 35 wins, three losses and one draw in the professional ring.
— Not much time has passed since the previous fight, I haven’t left or disappeared anywhere! It’s just that sometimes it happens, we make mistakes and something goes wrong, we just need to make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future. I felt a sense of devastation, but decided something had to be done. I just went to the gym, started training, sharing my experience with those who want to learn from me. When you teach, you look at boxing from a different perspective.
I attended a training camp with my friends who opened a gym in Dubai. I stayed there for a long time and just focused on boxing. I got back into it, started training, conditioning, and little by little, I got back into shape. With it, hunger and my style returned. Now I have to do my job well and stay one step ahead. The opponent is good. I have heard his name, but I never paid attention to it. I have always said and I continue to say to the promoter: whoever you give me, I will fight with him. Good luck to Aslanbek, let’s mentor him and see what happens. I think he’s loaded, he knows where he comes from and who he’s going to fight. But I take this fight very seriously and it doesn’t matter who the opponent is,” said Kurbanov, whose comments to were provided by the press service of the Russian Boxing Federation.
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