Media Petr Yan open letter / biography

[Hotora86]

Man that was great to read, made me like Yan even more. We need to get some Anatomy of Fighter type shit on him. The UFC is absolutely useless at promoting.

Tru dat.
I found this tho:

 

[Carsormyr]

Tru dat.
I found this tho:

Maaaaaan, that closing shot where he was standing in the crowd watching Moraes and Cejudo was awesome. Like predator watching prey from the tall grass.

 

[Hotora86]

Maaaaaan, that closing shot where he was standing in the crowd watching Moraes and Cejudo was awesome. Like predator watching prey from the tall grass.

Oh he wanted a piece of Cejudo for sure! I think he saw holes in his striking.

 

[Hotora86]

Hey UFC, call me up if you need an editor, because Yan has NO PERCY in your clip:

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[Hotora86]

BUMP for the NEW CHAMP !!!

 

[The Chosen]

Hard man from a hard place. Thanks for the translation.

 

[Feniamin]

Some Dagestanis love calling him "Chinese"; seen it multiple times on social media. Apparently they don't like the idea of a Russian being top MMA fighter.

I've seen them calling him "Jackie Chan" and also trolling about his Chinese and Georgian roots. Like, maybe he is good at mma because of his Chinese and Caucasus heritage.

 

[Feniamin]

Yep, the reason for that is management and it's ties with a particular promotion. There's a guy from Dominance MMA and Ali Abdelaziz' buddy, Rizvan Magomedov. He's a Dagestani who's been living in the States for the last decade or so, and he almost exclusively scouts, brings in to the UFC and manages Muslim fighters from North Caucasus. Russians simply don't have such a dedicated and well-connected UFC representative.

On the other hand, almost every Russian Bellator fighter is either managed by Alexei Zhernakov, who apparently is really tight with Bellator since mid-2010s (Shlemenko, Koreshkov, at some point Minakov and Volkov) or is a protege of Fedor, who probably wants nothing to do with Dana (Sidelnikov, Tokov, Nemkov).

Yan is a bit of an outlier; he doesn't belong to any of the established crews, and reps a relatively new team. If he succeeds, we might see more of his teammates in the UFC, who knows.



Yeah, fans, Russian and Dagestani alike, behave like jealous immature idiots all the time.

About teammates in UFC - I saw at sportexpress website interview with Yan's teamate Denis Lavrentyev and they quote Yan as saying that every contender brings his teamates into UFC.

 

[Hotora86]

New interviews with Yan:

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/petr-yan-huge-interview.4122847/

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/yan-speaks-about-arlovski-his-mom-and-pull-ups.4128434/

 

[mmadeewana]

Nice read. Dude definitely has struggled in life. I cant imagine a 15 year old going alone to another city,thanks to his mom we have a world champion

 

[Hotora86]

Nice read. Dude definitely has struggled in life. I cant imagine a 15 year old going alone to another city,thanks to his mom we have a world champion

I went alone to another country when I was 17


I'm not a UFC champ tho

 

[mmadeewana]

I went alone to another country when I was 17


I'm not a UFC champ tho

As a tourist or to work/start a new life?

 

[Deleted member 498977]

Aldo beats this dude

Say again?

 

[Hotora86]

As a tourist or to work/start a new life?

To study and start a new life. Work came later.

 

[mmadeewana]

To study and start a new life. Work came later.

Hope you are having a good life brother

 

[Hotora86]

Hope you are having a good life brother

Thanks bro, had my ups and downs but I'm proud of what I've achieved...




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