In the past weekend in a hall for press conferences of RITs half-hour conversation with legendary fighter Fedor Emelyanenko took place. The meeting caused keen desire to talk to the athlete separately.

– Fedor Vladimirovich, you cause enormous respect that very adequately you react to the defeats. You had nine years of invincible combative career. How purely properly endured defeats?
– You know, I even before the defeats said that to them is ready. Simply from me created an unclear cult: "we pray on you, you – invincible". To me as to the orthodox person, it was heavy to hear it. I tried to recustomize people from such attitude towards me. So, thank God, that lost, and these tests should be passed. Everything goes correctly. If the Lord sends any difficulties, he gives also strength them to overcome.
– Your native, daughters Masha, Vasilisa and Elizabeth, mother looked fights? Or so worried, what tried to avoid these feelings?
– Looked, of course, worried. Supported.
– In your combative career as yourself you define: who are you on type as the fighter, stake on shock or broskovy equipment?
– Initially I, of course, not drummer. The fighter is more. I all life was engaged in fight. But it was necessary to study and shock equipment. With Denis Lebedev (the world champion in boxing in the first heavy weight according to the WBA version. – The comment of the author) I was lucky to box.
– In a sparring?
– Yes. For me the best praise from Denis's lips, the professional boxer that with me difficult also is absolutely unpredictable, in respect of equipment, to combat.
– You at a boundary of zero years turned from sambo and judo into the mixed single combats. What feelings were? Full uncertainty...
– That's just the point. The most difficult – to pass. I understood that the equipment of fight which owned, should be changed, broken, reconstructed. It was necessary to study various shock technicians. It wasn't terrible, but I left hard because in the sambo and judo world I already was in the Russian national teams, me knew, there were results. And here it was necessary to start everything from scratch.
– You as the person churched, for certain you understand that without a participle, a confession and observance of posts it is extremely difficult to keep internal spiritual protection. Whether it seems to you: when we say, what sports are necessary to our children, it isn't enough of it? What the belief too is necessary?
– You know, belief, first of all. Before sports. All the rest has to be applied. We all life have to live good luck, regardless of what situation in life we occupy and what activity we conduct.
– In your life occurred two enough quiet transition: in the mixed single combats and to labor career after sports. You successful person?
– I am the happy person, because the believer. And such people don't complain about destiny, don't break from adversities – the Lord will always support. And here when the person counts only on himself, it is much heavier and to leave sports, and to overcome any vital difficulties.
Quiet, soft voice of self-assured, self-sufficient and spiritually strong person. You look Emelyanenko in the face – and you trust. He tells the truth. About the most important and lived.

Андрей Демидов

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