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On August 17, while speaking with a correspondent, fighter Sharabutdin Magomedov challenged Mikhail Ragozin. Magomedov, nicknamed Shara Bullet, is now one of the most talked about Russian middleweights, and it is increasingly difficult for him to find rivals, so it was interesting to know if Ragozin would accept this offer or not. Here, of course, you need to understand the roles: they say about Shara that he is very cool, but has not yet fought with serious opponents. Ragozin, on the other hand, is considered a good average Russian, but he has three times as many professional fights as Shara, and has certainly had more dangerous opponents. A question is even asked about the fight with Shara after the fight between Ragozin and Brazilian Arroyo, when a huge cut appears to be swallowing air above Mikhail’s eyebrow.
– It so happened that 10 days ago, in an interview with Shara Bullet, he said to me: “Mikhail Ragozin, my brother, let’s win your fight and we will end up in the cage of the RCC …”. I would like to know your reaction.
– I have not seen this interview, but in principle, rule out the contracts, rule out the time, the amounts, and we will study the offer.
Do you want to watch his interview?
– Hmm, well, let’s go (we include an interview with Ragozin from the phone – “”). … Shara beautiful – culturally, intelligently says it all.
What does it take to make this fight happen?
— Yes, nothing is necessary except a good offer. And so, we are in the same league and in the same weight, it is not so difficult to organize.
What can you do to beat it?
“I won’t reveal all the ideas now, but we’ll come up with a plan. Have a conscience, I just had a pretty tough fight, I want to relax and enjoy the win. But at the end of the year, in December, you can do it.
– Can we write that Mikhail Ragozin said: “I am ready”?
– If you start to rock this fight a bit, if it’s interesting for the public, interesting for people, then I don’t see any problem.
How Emelianenko and Ismailov reacted to Shlemenko’s defeat
A technical knockout in 22 seconds is the fastest defeat of Alexander Shlemenko’s career. Live, from the front row, he was seen by both the future opponent (Magomed Ismailov) and the potential (Alexander Emelianenko).
On the eve of Emelianenko, he promised to sincerely encourage Shlemenko, because he “still worries about Russian fighters.” Emelianenko’s emotions shouldn’t even have been affected by the fact that he called his namesake “a blotter without his own opinion.” Ismailov and Shlemenko were to have a duel of views after the duel with Ilic, and its result, it seems, could not affect the confrontation between Magomed and Alexander scheduled for December. As a result, when Shlemenko fell, Emelianenko cheered, and Ismailov found another use for them and grabbed his head.
Who knows, maybe everything would have ended deaf [глухим нокаутом], – Maga talks about stopping the fight, which Shlemenko considered premature. – It would have ended with a knockout, Sasha would now have at least six months off to get back in order. And now it ended in a knockdown, in a week he will continue the training process, he will prepare for the next confrontation.
[В ответ на вызов] Ilic told me: “No wrestling”, and I told him: “I like wrestling”.
I think Sasha needed to move a bit, but he immediately moved forward. I was hoping he wouldn’t immediately activate brawler mode. He sits when he launches the attack, it was not a pass to the legs, and at that moment he was caught.
Who and how found Ilic
When a not so famous fighter comes to Russia and defeats a local star, the question always arises of who found him and how. Ilic’s manager, Lucien Bakos, lives in Germany and often brings foreigners to Russian tournaments.
“In general, Alexander Ilitch was supposed to fight Ragozin,” says Bakos. – We talked about this fight three months ago. We’ve been in contact with him for a long time, he fought at KSW, and we had partnership agreements with his previous manager, we borrowed fighters from each other. For the RCC, we often select something, together with Nikolai Klimenko (executive director of the Yekaterinburg league – ). For Shlemenko, we had an idea with Jacare (a former UFC fighter who defeated Shlemenko a few years ago – ), but he couldn’t participate for many reasons.
Initially, we thought like this: if Ilic beats Carlos Vemola (July 23 at the tournament in the Czech Republic; Ilic lost – “”), he will fight with Shlemenko. We decided that if Shlemenko fights with him in a standing position, the fight will turn out good. And we asked Nikolai Klimenko if he could offer Shlemenko a fight, despite Ilic losing. Alex was happy to accept this fight, but he told us that he was not normally ready for such a fight. He said he just had a fight. And we told him it was lucky for him. We knew Ilic was a good drummer, so I think Shlemenko underestimated him.
– How did you first hear about it?
He is quite famous in Europe. For me, he became famous when we were looking for a fighter for the RCC a few years ago or even more, and I saw him fight in the Polish promotion KSW. It is clear that there are a lot of middleweights in Europe, but he has recently started to stand out due to his nickname “Joker” and such things.
Has he won more than twenty thousand dollars?
“Well, of course… Of course, of course. I think any opponent of Shlemenko gets at least fifty. We thought about organizing a rematch, but we have to see how it goes.
– They say that Ilic will ask for more money for revenge, two or three times more, is that true?
– Yes, you can do two or three, the question is that after such knockouts, maybe he will not fight in Russia. Now after that he can be signed to the UFC, he’s a young man. I think he’s going to have a lot of offers now. We will negotiate, see what is most profitable for us, because someone is building a career and someone wants money. I think that for Ilich the financial question was very important.
– Magomed Ismailov wants to fight Ilic now. What would you advise him? It seems to me that stylistically this is a very uncomfortable opponent for him.
Yes, uncomfortable. We have no interest yet. Ilich’s remark “you’re next” was more for show (Ilich said it in the cage after the fight – “”). I think if RCC offers a good sum for the fight with Maga, then we will discuss the conditions and ask Alex’s opinion.
Source : MatchTV
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