The head of the RCC league, Nikolai Klimenko, commented on the information that the next opponent of Alexander Shlemenko will be Brazilian Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza.
“The fight is real,” Klimenko stated in an interview “The MMA Herald.”. “First and foremost, he’s depending on Jacare right now. We are waiting for conditions, waiting for some kind of agreement on a possible fight. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll look further. For now, everything is in the process. I can’t declare it, but I can’t deny it either.”
If this fight takes place, it will be a rematch – in April 2006 at Jungle Fight 6 in Brazil, Jacare finished the Russian with an arm-triangle choke in the first round.
Alexander Shlemenko, 39, had two early wins last year, finishing Brazilian Alex Oliveira with a guillotine choke and a technical knockout of Serbian Aleksandar Ilic.
In the spring of 2021, 44-year-old Ronaldo Souza suffered his fourth straight defeat, losing by leveraged elbow to Andre Muniz, before being fired from the UFC, where he had competed for eight years since being absorbed by Strikeforce.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33775-v-lige-rcc-otsenili-veroyatnost-boya-shlemenko-zhakare.html?rand=19907
