On October 16, 2021, Vladimir Mineev dealt with his main MMA rival Magomed Ismailov in 14 minutes and 40 seconds, then disappeared for almost a year. At first, Mineev did not hide that he was enjoying his vacation. Then it became known that the athlete’s brother died in the first days of the special operation. In the summer, Mineev wanted to fight with Timur Nikulin according to boxing rules, but something went wrong. And it was not until September 16 that Mineev finally fought. Also, under kickboxing rules, something he hasn’t done since 2014. It didn’t save Bosnian Erko Jun, Mineev dropped his opponent in the second round and finished him off in the third, knocking strong with one knee.
– You came out on the song “Le bleu éclaboussé”, and you had to wait about two verses. Is this how it was planned?
– It was a trick, I wanted my opponent to freeze.
– Seriously?
I wanted him to calm down. Not even me, but my trainer wanted it that way (the fight took place on the street in Elista at a temperature of about “+10”. – “”).
“Like that’s a little mean.”
– Wait, what do you mean by the word “wickedness”? I acted in the right field, the song played, I walked out. Left when it’s over. It’s a sports trick, and trickery and meanness are two different things.
– Did you feel like it was your kickboxing skills that became less sharp not because of a hiatus, but because of the transition to MMA?
– I felt that I had not stepped into the ring for a long time and therefore I was in a hurry somewhere, I was worried. I realized that some skills in the rack were lost, but not irrevocably. I haven’t practiced kickboxing in a long time, somewhere I missed some extra punches, I missed a very low kick and I missed the left one on the side here (shows the area behind the earlobe), this move shocked me, but that’s okay.
– According to kickboxing rules, will Vladimir Mineev win today against Vladimir Mineev from 2012?
Yes, I would eat it. Maybe I would have missed a few shots, but from experience I would have devoured it. Because the path in sport that I have traveled is worth a lot. Those three-minute rounds, what about after the five-minute format? When I was preparing for Magomed Ismailov, I came to the gym, did five rounds of five minutes of wrestling, then five of five MMA. I had 50 minutes of continuous work.
– In the summer you could fight according to the rules of boxing, now you fight in kickboxing. When did you last wrestle?
– I still fight, I continue to train at the MMA Academy club with my coach from the Universal Fighters club. There are guys joining our team. Wrestling elements are always present in warm-up, cool-down, exercises, rubber work, I think such work is not only necessary for wrestlers.
– Often specialist batsmen learn the fight to defend against transfers and prevent them from doing tricks. And can you yourself catch a person at the reception?
– I don’t specifically do jiu-jitsu, for me classic and free wrestling is closer, but I teach some complex techniques only for myself.
– For instance?
“Do you want me to wring your neck now?” Feel the moment.
— No… Your trainer Rasul Magomedaliev said that you plan to finish the fight in the third round.
– I wanted to finish the fight in the fifth round, but the ring is the ring and sometimes plans don’t go the way you want them to. I saw that he was starting to act too aggressively and I had no choice but to throw counter punches. When I hit it on the left side, I decided to take my time, so as not to miss the excess myself. And at the same time, Erko surprised me with his kickboxing background, because he’s still an MMA fighter. I thought right from the start he would start backing up, but that didn’t happen, he started trying to run over me. I noticed that we even repeated some combinations. He shook his leg, slapped his hand, the classic Dutch school of kickboxing. He changed position, beat scissors, but in the end it turned out that I ended the fight in the third round.
– You had Evgeny Golovikhin in the corner, the man who was one of your first coaches, and Rasul Magomedaliyev, who trained you in MMA. Who listened the most?
– I am a student of Evgeny Vasilyevich Golovikhin. He gave me his understanding of martial arts, combat, put in me combinations and reflexes. But after flying out of his nest, I changed a lot of trainers. Now I train with Rasul Magomedaliev and Evgeny Vasilievich – it was just important for me that he was there at that time. Let him be here today, let him feel that adrenaline himself, even though we all understand that I’m used to hearing Rasul’s voice. I am grateful to Evgeniy Vasilyevich for coming and going today, for being with me, and everyone knows what an influence he had on me when I was a child.
– It became known that you will fight with Shara Bullet under the rules of MMA. He told me in August that he wanted to fight you for a long time. Did you feel like he was challenging you to a duel?
– You know, felt or not felt… he showed up, it was clear that he was one of the leaders of our weight in the country and this story was inevitable.
– Shara said you fought once and generally spoke well about yourself.
– Well, there were 1-2 rounds there, and there was also a time when we fought for a long time at the Thai boxing training camp. We were 20 years old. And now the contract has been sent, we both signed it.
– How did you tell your coach that you and Shara were going to fight, provided that Shara also trains with him?
– He just said that I would have a belt of defense against Shara, said that we had signed contracts. We are professionals, we have no hatred, anger, resentment, we are not going to war on each other, we are not going to ruin each other’s houses, on the contrary, everyone wins money with us. This guy will make a lot of money and I will get a lot of money as usual.
– Kamil Hajiyev said that the fight with Vagab has been postponed. Tell me more.
– Vagab did not accept my proposal to fight in 88.5 kg, which means that the fight is postponed until the moment when I can no longer make such a weight. Maybe we’ll have a 93kg fight under K-1 rules.
– Until you fight for 11 months, you were probably offered to fight with your bare hands or in some YouTube promotions.
– Surely there was something, but you ask those who are in charge of my affairs, what kind of proposals are there. I don’t think they have enough money for that. Let them really start offering something – I’m now getting 20 million for a fight, why should I go on “camera”? 20 years in the sport to now fight like a dog for pennies. From 50 million, let them come, and we’ll start thinking about something.
– You went out with the beret of the Airborne Forces. Since we asked where Habib’s hat is from, tell us where your hat is from?
– We also have a family history: my father is an officer, my grandfather fought, my brother is a paratrooper… This is it – my beret, in which I served.
– And they also came out in a T-shirt that depicts your brother, words are written in his memory. But we understand that someone should be involved in creating it anyway: doing a design layout, writing all the words. That he has done?
– Myself: sent a photo, said what and where to write, these are all obvious things written that correspond to reality.
– It was hard ?
– Not easy. In general, losing loved ones is not easy.
Source : MatchTV
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