The current AMC Fight Nights welterweight champion, Dmitry Bikrev, has no doubt that the fight between Alexander Shlemenko and Alex “Cowboy” Oliveira, who headlined the SFC 8 tournament in Omsk last week, was a contractual one.
“I saw this miraculous suffocator – this is from the category of Emelianenko-Ershov, the same story,” Bikrev said in an interview RB Sport. “So they don’t choke at all. Anyone who understands wrestling will immediately say that there are no such suffocators. From such a position and with such a grip. In short, Oliveira is a bad actor.”
Bikrev also confirmed the information that at one time “Storm” did not respond to the offer to share a cage with him.
“Yes, there were such attempts, but they did not lead to anything. They waited for Sasha, but in the end – no answer, no greetings. Therefore, we abandoned this idea. I would still like to fight with Shlemenko, this is an interesting fight.”
Recall that the fight between Alexander Shlemenko and Alex Oliveira ended at 1:59 of the first round with the victory of the Russian by guillotine choke, and Dmitry Bikrev successfully defended his title a week earlier, finishing with a technical knockout in the fifth round of Alexei Makhno.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/32180-chempion-amc-fight-nights-bikrev-nazval-podstavnym-boj-shlemenko-i-kovboya.html?rand=19907
