Interim UFC bantamweight champion Russian Petr Yan (16-2) will fly to the unification fight with American Aljamain Sterling (20-3) in the USA without his coaches. The 29-year-old fighter told about this in an interview with "Championship", bbabo.net reports.

On the night of April 10, the numbered UFC 273 tournament will be held in Jacksonville (Florida, USA). In the co-main event of the evening, Ian will have a rematch with full-fledged champion Sterling. In March last year, they had their first fight, and then everything ended with Peter's disqualification after an illegal knee strike.

“The training camp is still going on. I will be in Thailand for about ten days, after which I will fly to America. Kairat and Andrey, with whom I am preparing for fights, could not get visas. corner," the fighter said.

Yang also admitted that this situation is annoying for him, because it is very important who is in the corner during the fight. However, the Russian noted that the revenge against Sterling is of a fundamental nature, and if necessary, he will fly to the US alone. Thus, Jan will go to the US without his coaches Andrei Oktyabrinsky and Kairat Nurmaganbetov. Nurmaganbetov, 27, is Yana's striking coach, a native of Omsk. He is an ethnic Kazakh.

The coach has many sporting achievements. He is the Honored Master of Sports of Russia in kickboxing, two-time world champion, European champion, four-time champion of Russia. His father, Amerkhan Nurmaganbetov, is a kickboxing coach of the highest category.

Note that Yan's manager is Kazakhstani Sayat Abdrakhmanov. "I want to beat her very hard for all the words." Kazakh woman spoke about the rematch in the UFC

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