Alexander Emelianenko is least associated with fights and training, says Kamil Gadzhiev

The president of the AMC Fight Nights league, Kamil Gadzhiev, said that Alexander Emelianenko is the last thing he associates with sports.

The Ural FC 7 tournament scheduled for April 12 in Moscow was canceled due to technical reasons. This show was to be headlined by a rematch between heavyweights Emelianenko and Vyacheslav Datsik; it was planned that they would fight according to boxing rules with MMA gloves. In September 2022, Datsik knocked out Emelianenko in a boxing match in the 13th second.

— My criterion: this is a fight of a person who is more developed in another form than in MMA. If a person is more of a journalist than a fighter, he is a freak-boy; if he is more of a dentist or a trash talker than a fighter, he is a freak-boy. We put everything on the scale, and if he’s more of a fighter, that means he’s not a freak fight.

Sergei Badyuk and Igor Ryazantsev are a freak fight that took place here. Am I offending one or the other? No. I have a warm relationship with both of them. They are my comrades. Especially Badyuk. This is just the status of the battle. Sergei has been in the media for a long time, he is an adept of martial arts. For him, training took a back seat. Igor Ryazantsev – even more so. He’s a journalist. People who were less concerned about fighting fought. Many fights in pop MMA are freak fights because people trained for three months, and before that they were “barbers” fighting “cooks”. 100% freak fights.

Emelianenko vs. Datsik is a freak fight. Sanya is least associated with training, martial arts and fighting. Anything: media appearances, fly-ins, affirmative action, whatever. This comes first, fighting comes second. We don’t even remember where, when and by what rules. We stopped understanding. This is not professional MMA. It’s the same with Slava – by any rules and anywhere. He speaks out and jokes. Therefore, it’s a freak fight,” Metaratings.ru quotes Gadzhiev.