The finalist of the ACA lightweight Grand Prix, Artem Reznikov, who devastatingly lost to Eduard Vartanyan at the ACA 159 tournament in Sochi, spoke about his state of health, and also answered the question of why he could not oppose anything to the Russian in the fight that took place.
“At the hospital, they slightly corrected the nose and sewed up two cuts,” a representative of Kazakhstan said in an interview. “Vestnik MMA”. “The arm is normal, not broken – just very swollen. I feel tolerable, I can live. There was a concussion, but the MRI did – the head is whole, the brain is not damaged at all. ”
“In the first seconds, I missed a front kick in the windpipe, recovered, and then I started taking these front kicks on my arm, and my left hand went numb – I could not control it when I did takedowns. I couldn’t grab him, so he beat off my forearm. I couldn’t do anything at all”
“I don’t know what it is. I am disappointed in myself, I was one hundred percent sure of victory. I tried, but nothing worked for me. Either the opponent was very smart and studied me well, or something did not work out for me. From the first seconds, everything immediately went wrong. For the first time I felt like a bag”
Recall that the final Grand Prix fight, which led the event, was stopped at around 4:32 of the third round after the shocked Reznikov, being on the ground, went into a deaf defense and stopped responding to Vartanyan’s finishing blows.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/31845-artem-reznikov-sdelal-zayavlenie-posle-porazheniya-ot-eduarda-vartanyana.html?rand=19907
