Q: What are your weaknesses?
A: I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.Q: How do you feel about your opponents?
A: I respect them. Without exceptions.Q: When you walk out to fight, it looks like that epic display has been thought through.
A: I have never had anybody telling me how I should look. And I do not have any people telling me how to look. Stylists or … I don’t even know what they’re called. I just try to live by my faith, and that’s it.Q: What about the idea of being in an action movie (the 5th execution), was that yours as well?
A: No, honestly speaking, no. My friends asked me, they were doing shows about our mix fights (about nhb). And Vadik, my manager, asked me.They wrote up a screenplay, called in the actors and offered me one of the main roles. I was stubborn and didn’t want to do it. But at the same time – it’s very interesting and I wanted to try. I’ve never been in a movie before; I’ve never seen what it’s like. The result is… (Laugh) there is no result yet. The result will be in April. I will probably hide during that period, hide somewhere and not leave my house.
Q: You’ve been living in Stary Oskol ever since your childhood. Typically though, world class fighters try to move say to Germany, or the USA – where they train better and the payouts are bigger…Then why do they leave?
A: (silence)… Because they forget where they are from, and what their flags are.
Full interview and translation here.
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