Russian heavyweight Alexander Emelianenko explained why he called compatriot Alexander Shlemenko a clown. Emelianenko claims the former Bellator middleweight champion asked for a $300,000 fee to fight him.
“Called Shlemenko a clown? And so it was. When the first time Shlemenko began to open his waffle iron on the Internet, REN TV agreed to organize a fight with me, ”Emelianenko said in an interview with Azamat Bostanov. – Shlemenko asked for a crazy fee, and it’s no secret that REN TV offered him 150 thousand dollars. And he asked, in my opinion, twice as much. He says: “No, I will not go out.” You never made that kind of money in the States. Well, he moved out. They were not ready to pay him more, because everyone knows perfectly well that he is a no-name in this fight. To go out and fall, take the money and then sit … “
“Shlemenko was the Bellator champion for a long time,” A. Emelianenko continued. – It’s in the past. Everyone has long forgotten about this. Everyone was once a champion, and he can’t let those words go. Where is he now? Now he is deep in the ass. Does nothing, spends his money earned in America. Somewhere out there he leaves, fights at tournaments – the star of Yekaterinburg RCC-shnaya.
On November 27, at the AMC Fight Nights tournament in Syktyvkar, Emelianenko lost to Brazilian middleweight Marcio Santos by choke hold. Shlemenko, meanwhile, on May 7 at the AMC Fight Nights tournament in Vladivostok, defeated Santos by unanimous decision. After that, in October, at the Khabib Nurmagomedov EFC 42 tournament in Sochi, the Russian defeated compatriot Artur Huseynov by a judicial decision following the results of three rounds.
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