 Abdulmalik Gadzhiev has recently joined the coaches team in Martial Arts Academy. He was the one who prepared local professional fighters to War on the Shore-3 held on November 25th at Dusit Thani Dubai. They became winners, and Abdulmalik agreed to answer few questions so that muaythai followers would know more about our fighters and our tournaments
Q.: What can you say about the third series of War on the Shore in comparison with episodes 1 and 2?
A: Unfortunately I didn’t have an opportunity to participate in War on the Shore 1 and 2, but I saw them on DVD afterwards. In my opinion War on the Shore-3 was definitely held on higher level and was more spectacular, because audiences need to be shown the real beauty and professionalism of this martial art. That could be achieved only by bringing Thai fighters to the tournament, because it’s their culture and almost no one can perform better. War on the Shore-3 included 4 undercard fights with Thai fighters participating in them. Thus, it was amazing performance.
Q.: As we all know, fighters of Martial Arts Academy – Magomed Idigov, Gadzhimirza
Osmanov, Daniel Nuamah – won their competitions. We congratulate them! Was their level
of preparation higher than of their competitors?
A: Definitely. I’m sure that our fighters were more prepared to the tournament, both physically and psychologically. They work out a lot, and I’m proud they got Winner belts. However, it’s only the beginning and they will get more titles soon.
Q.: In our opinion, which fight was a highlight of that evening?
A: Of course, I think that competitions with participation of Martial Arts Academy fighters were really spectacular – they all ended with Kos, and they were worth seeing. But there was one fight I liked most of all – Persian Mos (Iran) VS Samranchai 96 Peenung (Thailand). I give to this fight 5 out of 5. These guys showed the real art of muaythai, and I was really excited to watch it.
Q.: What do you think of today’s level of muaythai in the UAE, and what role there can you
give to Martial Arts Academy?
A: Well, the level of awareness of muaythai in the UAE is still weak. Most of people are only obsessed with Jiu Jitsu and MMA. Some of them even don’t see the difference between all these kinds of sports! That’s why I’m sure that we need to let everybody know about what we are doing and about what an amazing sport is muaythai. Martal Arts Academy not only raises professional fighters in the region, it plays a vital role in the developing of muaythai
in the whole Gulf region. It has lots of tools from great advertising campaigns and providing all followers with the latest worldwide muaythai news (www.muaythai.ae) to the level of recognition and fighters preparations (training venue – Generation eXtreme).
Q.: And the last question. What do you expect from next series of War on the Shore project?
A: Today I can see the progress in the tournaments called War on the Shore. As I’ve already mentioned before, the third’s series level was much higher than levels of previous fights. So, the next year I hope that we’ll have more War on the Shore series within each year. And we’ll have more tournament series then we’ll have more title and rating fights, more professional fighters coming from different countries and more local fighters competing with them in a full range of weight categories. Only that way we can show people that it’s not MMA, UFC, etc., but it’s a beautiful, thrilling and hard-styled martial art, which is worth seeing and following.
Thanks and hope to see everyone on War on the Shore-4
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