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He made the right choice. You don’t just jump in with literally no experience. He needs a couple years of training and fighting frequently.
Vakhitov vs Roman Kryklia will be a bangerhis skill is above and beyond any LHW and HW in ONE KB
he will do very well anywhere he goes except mma cause of his defense dependency on big gloves
The former GLORY Kickboxing LHW-champion turned down offers from UFC and ONE Championship after GLORY terminated his contract.
Full release:
https://beyondkick.com/news/artem-vakhitov-signs-with-muaythai-factory-set-to-debut-in-december-1
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He now signed with Russian promotion “MuayThai Factory” and is set to debut in December.
Artem Vakhitov and Alex Pereira went 1-1 in GLORY, switching the LHW-belt in two very close fights.
Here is the highlight video of both titlefights combined:
Good move? Or should Vakhitov have signed with UFC to chase Pereira like Poatan chased Izzy and continue the rivalry?
Discuss..
I know Vakhitov has a good relationship with MuayThai Factory. He has been invited to their events several times, so I’m not surprised about them working together.Good for him, I guess.
If it makes him a big star in Russia, I see no issues with it.
There is more than one way to skin a cat, as they say.
lol probably some russian mob shit, no way that promotion is paying him more than the UFC and One.
You got to be absolute retarded to believe UFC pays peanuts and having elite athletes including both Alex and Israel who decided to transition with all of its difficulty to MMA in the prime of their kickboxing careers. The reality is that UFC is high risk high reward. being top 5 or even top 10 in the UFC is the best money you could get than any kickboxing promotion however nobody guarantees for Artem success in MMA and the guy is reliant too much on his big gloves making successful transition more difficult for him. most likely he believes that he wont have chance in the top of the UFC and the transition might also hurt his kickboxing career if he will try to go back. Better safe money than huge bet sometimes.
The UFC offers contracts to fighters that are pay cuts all the time. Mamed Khalidov was one of the biggest names outside the UFC at MW years ago and the contract they offered to him was a pay cut so he turned it down.
Think for a second why would anyone especially the best fighters in the world would fight in the UFC if you barely get any money...
I don't know about that guy. I wouldn't be surprised if both Adesanya and Alex got offered less money than glory when they joined the UFC but they promised them waaay more if they will succeed to be champs. They had much higher confidence than Artem so they agreed.
I read an intreview before about some lesser known young MMA fighter who got offered contracts from both UFC and bellator. He said that the UFC is more of a high risk high reward. You fight against tougher opponents and at the beginning of your career the payment might be lower however if you believe that you can get into the top so you will get there the most money possible.
Alex was a grandpa in athlete age when he joined the UFC. And what style do you talking about? Maybe trashtalker which generates the most money but this is true also for boxing. If your fighting styleake you win enough so eventually you'll be a champion that's why Usman did it despite being slow hold and stallYes, the potential money in the UFC is more but not everyone that the UFC is offering contracts to is young enough to get to that potential. Also if you have a style that the UFC doesn't like you might never get that opportunity to make that kind of money where as that's not as much of an issue outside the UFC.
Alex was a grandpa in athlete age when he joined the UFC. And what style do you talking about? Maybe trashtalker which generates the most money but this is true also for boxing. If your fighting styleake you win enough so eventually you'll be a champion that's why Usman did it despite being slow hold and stall
The fact so many MMA fighters enter UFC at such an old age is a major problem need to get fixed asap. The top fighters should be at their early 20's just like other sports but the age of the sport and its lower popularity compared to soccer, basketball, tennis is an issue.Alex started MMA 7 years ago when he was 28, I'm sorry but 28 is not close to old for an MMA fighter, it's pretty much when most fighters are hitting their primes.
By style I'm talking about fighting style, if the UFC doesn't like your fighting style you might never get the chance to make big money and your road to a title shot will be much longer. Most fighters also can't get 3-4 fights a year in the UFC cause they have so many fighters it's not possible to give them all 3 fights a year so that potential money isn't there for a lot of MMA fighters due to their age and the name they build up outside the UFC that the UFC tends to undervalue and possibly their fighting style.
If you are young and have an entertaining fighting style or if you are young and are good enough to just almost never lose you will see that potential money but if not it's a big gamble and if your a big name in Europe you're going to likely have to take a pay cut for a while before you start making more money.
Alex is a terrible example cause he started MMA when he was still in his 20s and he has an exciting style and he had 2 wins over Izzy which made his road to a title shot way shorter than it would be for pretty much anyone else.
Another reason why Alex is a bad example is that kickboxing generally pays less than MMA.
Everyone talking about how UFC won't pay him but what is Muay Thai Factory? They pay good? Someone educate me here.