Russian fighter Alexander Sarnavsky has no ill will toward his former friend and mentor Alexander Shlemenko, who fired him from Team Storm last year.
“I didn’t say any bad words towards Alexander,” Sarnavsky said in an interview Sport24. “I just did one interview where I talked about how it happened that I stopped playing for the club and the team. He actually gave me a lot of things. If it wasn’t for him, I might not have performed at all. In 2008 I was psychologically not ready to play professionally at all”
“He said, ‘You can do it, I can see you can do it,’ and I sat there and realized I couldn’t do it. How am I, an 18-year-old kid, going out to fight men? He brought me into this sport, he showed me, he promoted me in the media, he brought me and Andrey Koreshkov to Bellator. I’m grateful to him for that
“Let him now record 500 interviews, let him say whatever he wants about me, but my opinion of him will not change. He really gave me a lot. Not only in sports, but in life. If that’s what he thinks, no problem. I think a little bit differently, that’s all.”
Alexander Sarnavskiy will fight next on February 23 at AMC Fight Nights 123 in Moscow against the organization’s reigning lightweight champion Magomed Sulumov, while Alexander Shlemenko could face Brazilian Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in March under the RCC league banner.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33781-aleksandr-sarnavskij-obratilsya-k-aleksandru-shlemenko.html?rand=19907
