Vitaly Laletin English Interview 2022 At The Siberian Power Show
Source: Matt Rhodes Sport
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I wasn’t surprised by the result because Dave Chaffee
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Is a strong armwrestler who worked very well on his side pressure
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And then used it well. And even if he loses his wrist he can pull and pin his opponent
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Which is what happened. Alex took Dave’s wrist out
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But still Dave gathered his strength and easilly pinned him down
0:59
I really would like to pull Dave
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It is one of the things I train for, so to speak
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To meet him, stand with him at the table, feel his strength
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And find out how strong he is
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So he’s always sympathized with me at competitions
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Since I met him in person when he was competing against Dmitry Trubin and beat him
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How do you rate your chances against him?
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Well, I think I would manage to give him a battle
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And everything will depend on the shape that I’ll be in and the shape that he’ll be in
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It would be an honor for me to pull him
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I watched the match and I saw that Ermes is actually way stronger than Wagner
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And it was a deserved victory
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So how hard a man trains transfers to how strong he is
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That’s how he won
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There was no luck or so
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He simply was way stronger
2:15
Here translator mixed up the words “endurance” and “injuries” so Vitaly started talking about injuries
2:20
Well, I’d say that injuries have a very strong influence on our arms
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Sometimes an injury doesn’t even allow you to use your strength
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And do any moves
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So when injuries happen they firstly need to be rehabed
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And then compete, because pulling with an injury is really tough
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First of all he needs to rest
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He needs some rest
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Gain some energy and do correct moves in the training process
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To be even stronger and put his strengh in the right direction
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He’s very strong but he lacks the moves that are needed in armwrestling
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I think no
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She’s very strong
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Very strong
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Levan Saginashvili
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Judging from the last matches
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From those men who pulled it’s of course Levan Saginashvili
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Dave Chaffee
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Also Devon Larratt
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If we take the right hand I think it’s also Dmitry Silaev
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Dmitry Silaev, Ermes Gasparini
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I think Dave Chaffee is stronger than Devon Larratt
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Sure?
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I think yes
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If we take them how they are today. I followed both of them
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I think yes
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For me it’d be not harder but more interesting to pull Devon
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Everybody is looking forward to this match
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But again Devon is my friend
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And it’d be a friendly match where we’d find out who’s stronger between the two of us
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But still I think it’d be more interesting to pull Dave Chaffee
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I try to do sparring once a week if Dmitry Silaev comes
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But actually I don’t have lots of sparrings
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I mostly do strength training, work on my overall strength and conditionong
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I also train some special moves
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And of course it’s hard not to do armfights these days
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And not to understand how strong you are
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Is your strength real or not
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Today I practiced with the guys and realised that there are things I need to work on
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No
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I don’t have such partner. My strongest sparring partner at the moment is Dmitry Silaev
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Who is very strong and powerful but not durable
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So I lack a durable sparring partner that could help me in my training
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That’s why I find sparring partners in other cities and train with them
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I was in Omsk at Grigory Lyaschyk’s
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I was in Moscow at Ivan Matyushenko’s
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So I have to travel all around Russia and find new athletes who I can train with
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I try to train 3 times a week for two hours
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So it means 6 hours per week
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24 hours per month
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My bodyweight is 136 kg (300 lbs), I gained up to 142 kg (313 lbs) and decided it’s too much
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And dropped some weight, so now I weigh 136-137 kg (300-302 lbs)
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And why?
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Well, I have noone to pull in the off season so I don’t see a reason to carry big mass
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It’s very hard for my body and it’s not worth it
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In the future if I’ll be preparing for an armfight with a serious opponent like Dave Chaffee
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Levan Saginashvili or Devon Larratt, then I would gain weight up to 145-150 kg (320-330 lbs)
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If we look at my numbers, I became 10-15% better
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Became stronger. So my arms became more powerful
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And I can say that Vitaly at that time was a different person, now it’s completely new Vitaly
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Of course Levan doesn’t stand still, he trains and becomes stronger
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But again I say that the table will show everything
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Here you can talk about anything
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Like I can curl 80 kg (175 lbs) and Levan 60 kg (130 lbs)
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But he’d have stronger wrist and beat me. You can’t guess it
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I started training in 2002 when I was 13 years old
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I think that a child can start training armwrestling at no earlier than 10 years old
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Or even 12. The age when bones and tendons become stronger
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Then a child can start armwestling, but it needs to be done carefully not to harm him
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So, starting from 2009, when I bought my first car, a Soviet made one
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And I started working with it. Than I got a truck which I continued to work with
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In 2018 I got a second vehicle, I hired a driver for it
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And in 2020 I got a 3rd vehicle, to which I also hired a driver
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I also worked myself but when I got into top 8 I realised
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That I need to change someting in my life
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And I hired drivers for all my vehicles so I could train
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It was the second year when I was in top 8, in the first year I didn’t dare to do this
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And worked myself. So at the moment all my vehicles are working
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But I don’t drive them, I do the logistics of the goods delivery
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So on every vehicle I appoint the route that I find correct
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And myself go to the gym and train
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And what do you transport?
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We transport everything: building materials, food, water, clothes
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Everything that people need, so called consumer goods
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Well, for example today was the contest were I could compete and pull
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Because me and Dmitry Silaev have approximately same strength in right hands
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Same with David Dadikyan. We pulled with our left hands
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And I realised that streangth is roughly the same
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And the organisers didn’t invite me, considered me stronger than everyone
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And nobody would want to compete if I’m here
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But actually I could’ve pulled here
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If we take the other competition, the championship of Chechnya
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It’ll take place 27-28th of May. There will be a good prize fund
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I’ll for sure come there and compete
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I’ll come with Dmitry Silaev an we’ll compete together
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I think that… no offense to Devon, I said that he’s my friend
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But I think it’ll be no offense for him to say that Levan is really way stronger
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If Devon will manage to resist Levan
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I will respect him even more than I do now
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If he’ll in his age manage to give battle to such a tough opponent like Levan
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And what does he need to do to win? Well, to try to win
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He needs to train
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And that’s it, yeah?
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Seems to be so
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There’s not much time left
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So he needs to think about positive things and train
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I’d say that now there’s no point for him to gain weight, it should be done 10 years ago
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Now if you rapidly increase your bodyweight, you won’t gain much strength from it
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Now I can’t put myself on any place because I haven’t competed for a long time
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Let’s put me on 6th place
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And after I’ll compete we’ll talk and try to get me up from 6th place
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Maybe closer to the 1st one
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A decent answer
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Yes, it’s just now everybody put me on the 2nd place but I haven’t competed for a long time
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And we don’t know in what shape I am. Did I become better, or did I become worse
12:25
I think that these ratings, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place
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Can be done only after the contest season is over and all these 5 athletes have competed
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And not just randomly guessing the places
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I think that now because Igor Mazurenko prohibited Russian athletes from competing in top 8
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It is better for me to remain neutral
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Beacuse if I come back to Armwrestling Federation of Russia, roughly speaking
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Then I’ll be disqualified again if I’d like to pull Devon Larratt after receiving such offer
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I’d better remain in neutral position
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If I’d be offered to pull, I’ll do it. If no, then I won’t
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But I see no point in going to the Russian Champoinship and competing for the first place
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I’ve alredy done it 10 times
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It’s not that I choose Dubai federation or choose PAL federation
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So for me there is all-russian federation of armwrestling and there is neutral federation
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Neutral means that I compete in KOT 4, KOT 5 if it happens
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Also I can compete in Turkey at Terzi’s and in any other place
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So that no one can prohibit me from competing
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Yeah, I also heard that Denis wants to come back
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And if he comes back, I’ll help and support him with what I can
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And all armwrestlers in the world, doesn’t matter if they live in the States or in Russia
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Everyone will be happy about it, because everybody is waiting for Denis’ comeback
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Denis does a good job, he sticks to the rule that it’ll depend on his health
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Now he is tested and if everythig is fine he’ll come back and will delight us with new victories
14:53
Me and Denis sometimes train together
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Because there is 5000 kilometers between us we see each other very rarely
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But when we meet we train and talk a lot about armwrestling
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Very often and a lot talk about the development of armwrestling
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How can we make armwrestling step to the new level
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So that not only armwrestling fans would know us, but the whole world
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That’s a very hard question
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If we take the numbers that Denis did at the strict bicep curl
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I thik that Levan won’t lift that much, if we compare to Denis
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I’m even furher from those numbers
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That Denis lifted?
15:43
Yeah, that Denis lifted
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And Denis had a very good base, overall strength
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Here only the table will decide
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And of course we wanted an armfight between Denis and Levan
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But Denis is older, the age takes its toll. It’s harder for him to catch up
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Here I can’t even say anything. I think that everyone is good in their own way
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I’d pull Dave Chaffee. I respect this athlete very much
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And I’d pull him not because I want to beat him or want to somehow humiliate him
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I want to pull him to feel his real strength because he was way stronger than Alex Kurdecha
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And I’d like to pull him. It’d be interesting for me
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I want to say thank you for the interview. I know you work really a lot
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And you’re a very kind man
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Thank you! Thank you!
