Zubaira Tukhugov explained the failure of the weight race in the lightweight division

“Making weight is as important to me as the fight itself,” Tukhugov said in an interview with the channel “Ushatayka”. “I was just given a visa six days before the fight, I flew to Australia, acclimatization, they take me to the fight at four in the morning, I fight at seven, so I had to adjust to this time, wake up at four in the morning, go train, weight drive”

“I didn’t get enough sleep, and when you are sleepy, the weight doesn’t go – I trained in the morning, in the evening to drive the weight, but it didn’t work for me because I flew there late, and because I fought in the morning . A person should sleep, have breakfast, go to weight drive, but it was impossible for me – there is no breakfast at four in the morning. If I had known from the beginning that my fight would take place at seven in the morning, I might not have flown there. ”

Nevertheless, Tukhugov is confident that he won the fight against the Brazilian Elvis Brenner, despite the fact that the judges gave the victory to his opponent by a split decision.

“I actually won this fight – it was evident from the statistics, but for some reason the judges present did not want to give me the victory. Before that, I was also not given an equal fight, even I was a little ahead. But what to do – it means that it was destined to be so ”