Former Bellator middleweight champion, Alexander Shlemenko, summed up the fight between Alexander Emelianenko and Svyatoslav Kovalenko, which ended with the victory of the blogger by a split decision.
“Kovalenko’s advantage was in speed, in the unpredictability of actions, because the second knockdown was not from a blow, but from a go-ahead,” Storm said in an interview. Alexander Lyutikov. “Alexander Emelianenko probably expected that there would be some kind of classic boxing, and then nine minutes of the fight and he just began to understand what was waiting for him, and everything was already over”
At the same time, Storm believes that the fights involving Emelianenko have not lost their relevance, and knows who should be his next opponent.
“I am not criticizing him in any way. Probably, he did not have too much desire to win this fight, and he did not win. That’s all I want to say. It turns out that the title, which Alexander won in a duel against Mikhail Koklyaev, has now passed to Svyatoslav Kovalenko – this is a great chance for him.
“If tomorrow Alexander comes out for a rematch with Koklyaev, for a rematch with Kovalenko, I will watch the fight in the same way, and people will also watch. Revenges are even more interesting than the first confrontations. Therefore, now the best option, in my opinion, is Mikhail Koklyaev, especially since Mikhail Koklyaev wants this. Can they fight not according to the rules of boxing, but according to the rules of MMA “
Recall that the boxing match between Alexander Emelianenko and Mikhail Koklyaev took place in November 2019 at the VTB Arena in Moscow and ended with the defeat of the weightlifter by knockout in the first round.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/30290-shlemenko-otreagiroval-na-porazhenie-emelyanenko.html?rand=19907
