Former vice president of Affliction told how Alexander Emelianenko tried to steal his watch

The ex-president of the Affliction promotion, Tom Atencio, shared the story of how Alexander Emelianenko, during his stay in St. Petersburg, attempted to steal his watch from him.

“I was in Russia, St. Petersburg,” Atension said on the Lytes Out Podcast Youtube channel. – They have a place there, the ship “Flying Dutchman” is an exact replica of the ship of the 18th century. This is an institution with restaurants, very close to the Hermitage. In it, in my opinion, there are three restaurants, two nightclubs, a hall, several beds. You come in, and there are long-legged girls spinning on a pole. One girl with bulldog tattoos played the saxophone. In general, a dream place for a man. I had a good time and got ready to go to the toilet. And the toilet there was at the very bottom of the ship, you had to go down the stairs.

I went downstairs, went downstairs, up the stairs – and I see Alex coming down towards me. Have you ever seen him live? He’s a big guy. I don’t usually force myself, but then I extended my hand: “Alex, I’m Tom from Affliction.” He didn’t know who I was, of course, but he shook my hand. And when he pressed it, at the same time he began to unfasten the strap on my watch! He started stealing my watch! I yelled “No!”, grabbed them abruptly and ran upstairs. I was in a lost, excited state. “Did he really try to steal my watch? It’s kind of a joke.” He pulled them together with that impenetrable Russian face, like Fyodor’s.

I return to the bar, and soon Alex himself sits down there. He tells me through some person who has undertaken to translate that he liked my T-shirt, and offers me to exchange T-shirts. And he had a tight white T-shirt with the K-1 logo, I think. She, by the way, and now I have somewhere lies. He took it off himself and I took mine off. I put on his T-shirt, and it was all wet with sweat. It was disgusting, to be honest. Here’s the story – I first met Alex Emelianenko, and he tried to steal my watch. Although I had a great time in Russia, even though there were surreal things happening there … “

Affliction is an American promotion launched by Affliction Clothing in 2008. The organization held two tournaments and in July 2009 ceased to exist.