An agreement or a demonstrative battle?

Jeff Monson was offended that he was really beaten

On May 7, in Yekaterinburg, a battle took place between the American Jeff Monson, nicknamed Snowman and the Russian Ivan Styrovkov. The confrontation ended with a quick victory of the Russian athlete. A few days after the battle, Monson stated that he had been deceived. According to the American, it should have been a demonstration fight, and the Russian really fought. The Russian promoter says that Monson tried to organize a contract match, but he did not succeed. "Medusa" talks about the battle and position of the parties.

Jeff Monson entered the ring under the Victory Day performed by Lev Leshchenko and the Communist Party T -shirt. No wonder: he lives in Russia for about a year, participates in the events of the Communists (probably not suspecting that they are far from the left ideology that he adheres to) and is trying to obtain Russian citizenship. Shtyrkov climbed the arena, accompanied by a rap annsemble, performing a song about the forests and fields of Russia. The battle between Montson and Shtyrkov was the main event of that evening, but it lasted only about a minute. At the very beginning of the first round, the bayonets threw Monson on the ropes with one blow, and then held a painful reception on his hand. The battle ended on this.

Three days later, May 10, Jeff Monson said that the organizers of the battle behaved dishonestly . According to the snowman, he could not fight at full strength due to the injury of biceps, and in two weeks he warned the organizer Alexei Titov about this. He insisted that Monson go to the ring. According to the American, he agreed to reach the ring, but to conduct only a demonstration fight.

According to Monson, he tried to meet with Shtyrkov, but Titov put off this meeting. Only when Monson threatened to leave Yekaterinburg on the day of the battle, he was brought with a Russian. “I put his palm on my hand and said that I needed to protect her. He reluctantly agreed. He is a fighter, he did not want to do this, ”Monson said. Nevertheless, in battle, the Russian captured the injured hand of an American and held a painful reception. According to Monson, he heard his hand cracked, but he did not give up the extra five seconds, because he thought that the battle was indicative. In a real battle, he would have surrendered earlier.

Sitting after the battle outside the ring, Jeff Monson noticed the passing Titov. He went to the promoter and hit him with his palm as a sign of disrespect. In English, this is called Bitch SLAP: when the opponent is not worthy of a normal blow with a fist, it is beaten with a palm. After the blow, the guard Titov put up a fighter from the building.

Alexey Titov confirmed that in two weeks, representatives of Monson really warned of damage to the athlete's hand. Then Titov proposed to cancel the battle, but the Monson team said to this that he was still ready to fight.

“After that, Jeff spent several Gospling Matchh in Russia (how could he do it with a injured hand?), And then they again contacted me and began to offer to play the performance in the ring, to make a contractual battle. They wanted to meet with Shtyrkov before the battle and rehearse. I’ll say it’s easier, Jeff wanted to eat a fish, and it doesn’t happen dry out of the water, but it doesn’t happen that he contacted those people! I just told Van to go out and do my job, ”Alexei Titov told his version of events. He did not comment on the story with Bitch SLAP.