Vadim Nemkov, Bellator 297 Credit score: Lucas Noonan/Cageside Press
PFL heavyweight Vadim Nemkov is simply days away from combating for the primary time in practically a 12 months, however he finds himself coping with a little bit of controversy in the case of the opponent.
Not Tim Johnson. Bellator mild heavyweight champion Corey Anderson.
“We didn’t even consider him as an opponent to begin with. when it was announced, we talked to PFL, we asked them to renegotiate the contract, offer better money or ask for the contract to be for a title fight let’s say, for the heavyweight division title with the belt on the line but the PFL refused to do so,” Nemkov advised MMAFighting.
“So that fight didn’t make any sense. You’ve been around for a while, you know every fight has to make sense.”
PFL had introduced his struggle this weekend in Saudi Arabia can be towards Anderson. Not lengthy after it was introduced that the struggle was off which left Anderson with no struggle.
“Fights off an according to Bellator/PFL Nemkov was being a crybaby about the fight. They agreed then declined because I’m “too tough of a fight,” Anderson stated in a social media publish.
“But wai!! There’s more, he wants to stay on the card, but wants to fight a lesser opponent… Last time we fought, his cameraman said I was easy work and didn’t deserve to fight him again… then, after I earned it, his cameraman then said he was now too big to fight LHW.”
“Honestly speaking it’s from the perspective of what I can get out of this fight. There’s nothing that I can gain from it,” stated Nemkov.
“There was another fight that was offered to me, which we agreed on. The second fight (with Anderson), the PFL announced the fight before we agreed to it. Afterwards, we started negotiating. Because there was a possibility that we would fight if the money was different, if the contract was different.”
At this level in Nemkov’s profession there should be one thing to achieve for him to contemplate a struggle. Now that he’s a heavyweight he has little interest in transferring right down to struggle at 205, and Anderson lacks the heavyweight expertise to be thought of a contender for that title.
“if he would fight someone else and he would be (ranked) and it was going to be a fight with a belt on the line or something else that I could gain out of it,” Nemkov stated. The 2 have already fought earlier than. “It was a pretty easy fight. He likes to run his mouth and he does it best.”
Vadim Nemkov faces Tim Johnson this Saturday night time at PFL Highway To Dubai: Champions Sequence.
