Sergei's interview post 'fight'. I haven't seen it yet -
But it seems like brass was used by the ufc creep after all - Kharitonov said that the creep always carries a brass with him and it seems like he was carrying one this time as well.
So, I saw the video
- the story goes like this - Adam once upon a time was a friend of Sergei - at one point he had a fight with someone - had a broken jaw and there was a potential hit order on his life. Sergei at that time was about to leave to Thailand for training and he invited Adam to join him (with Adam's wife) - he put them in a nice hotel (Adam had financial issues back then) - he even paid for their ticket back home, since they were out of money.
A bit later, Adam asked Sergei for a loan - promising to return next month. Next month he asked for another loan - and then another and another. Eventually, Sergei stopped giving him more money, since he had his own financial problems and wasn't sure that Adam would ever pay back any of the money he had given him up to that point.
Later, Sergei introduced Adam to his businessman friend - he told his friend that Adam was in a difficult situation and needed help. He later learned that his friend gave Adam 20 thousand dollars as a gift when Adam's wife gave birth. At some point, Adam started asking Sergei's friend for a loan - saying that he needed money for training - 5 thousand dollars per month - and that he would give the money as soon as he was able to. After many months of these 5 thousand dollar/month payments, Sergei's friend also stopped giving more money due to his own financial difficulties. Adam has not returned any of the money to either Sergei or his friend.
Sergei started telling his own friends not to loan any money to Adam because Adam never returned his loans - and in one instance, a friend of Sergei wanted to make an advertisement deal with Adam and asked Sergei about him - Sergei told him that Adam took a fair amount of money and never returned it - the deal between Sergei's friend and Adam was not finallized - potentially because of what Sergei said. Adam started to get pissy and called Sergei, saying, 'why are you telling people of what should be strictly between you and me?'
Sergei told him that he should return the money and then Sergei won't have anything bad to say. Anyways - they both moved on -
There was a bit more - but let's fast track to the day of the 'fight', if you want to call it that.
Sergei arrived at the event (i presume it was a fight event) - he gave the champion some award and then saw a friend - they said hi to each other - then Adam showed up and said that he wanted to talk to Sergei outside (keep in mind, Sergei did not yet know that Adam beat up one of Sergei's friends earlier that day - Sergei said that if he had known, he wouldn't have gone outside with Adam). Sergei figured maybe Adam grew a bit of conscience and wanted to return the money. He was completely relaxed and had no idea what was coming. When outside, Adam said 'Do I owe you money?' Sergei said 'yeah - you owe me some money'. Adam cursed in one way or another (Sergei can't recall exact words) and that's when the punching began (see the fight video for details). Sergei did confirm that Adam used a brass - which is what broke the orbital bone.
Interviewer asked - why would a son of one of the wealthiest people in the region have a perpetual need for loans? Sergei doesn't know - but he does know that according to Adam's dad's wishes, Adam was supposed to marry a girl of another uber rich dude, but Adam chose to marry another girl.
Sergei thinks this whole thing was staged by Adam - he wanted to get on the video him knocking out heavyweight Kharitonov - which is why there were so many cameras around filming the whole thing. I agree - the beatdown earlier that day was also recorded by one of Adam's shills.
My opinion - Adam is a real piece of work and is in a need of justice being served. I have a suspicion that Adam's daddy ain't paying his bills after all - otherwise it is doubtful that Adam would ever have such financial problems. Then again, we need to keep in mind that Adam is one of those loan creeps - I've met them before - they ask for a loan and when you ask for the money back, they make it sound like you are asking them for a loan and give you the look 'how dare you?'