Vadim Nemkov, Bellator’s reigning bantamweight champion and the league’s best fighter regardless of weight class, commented on the defeat of his compatriot Sergey Pavlovic, who in a fight for the interim UFC heavyweight title lost by knockout to Brit Tom Aspinall at 69 seconds.
“I didn’t expect the fight to end this way at all, because Aspinall showed high speed in the standup, and Seryoga was defeated by his own weapon – hit and finished him,” the Russian said in an interview with the channel “Ushataika”. “The speed was very high, plus he stripped – showed his hands, kicked, then threw a deuce and hit. Of course, for a heavyweight, the speed was very high. I honestly thought that he would fight Sergey. That from the very beginning he was going to knit, try to pass to the legs, to the body. But here he just pulled and hit”
Paying tribute to the British heavyweight’s speed and technique, Nemkov would like to see him in a long fight that lasts longer than one round.
“Aspinall’s movement on the feet was good. He was cutting angles, moving around, not standing in front of Seryoga as an open target. Even when Seryoga tried to punch with his right, he went boxer-style, with his hands down. He was preparing for Sergei, for a right overhand. Sergei’s previous opponents had not been so fast. If Aspinall had not hit in the first round in the second minute, it is not known how long he would have been able to move like that, because this way of fighting is very energy-consuming. But he got in early in the fight, so it’s not clear how long he would have lasted”
Recall that the heavyweight title fight took place last weekend at UFC 295 in New York, becoming the second most important event of the numbered event.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33148-reaktsiya-vadima-nemkova-na-porazhenie-sergeya-pavlovicha.html?rand=19907
