On 18th July we departed from Dubai to Bangkok and after 7-hour flight reached the country of Muaythai at 6 o’clock in the morning. In Bangkok we spent the whole day at Rompo Mansion waiting for our flight to Korea. Ahmed Saadi and Najmeddin Al Haddad trained lightly with Thai trainers and Magomed Suleymanov . After we dined together with Jzhabar Askerov whom we met at Rompo Mansion we went to airport. The flight to Seoul was at twelve at night.

After five hours we arrived to Seoul early in the morning and were picked up by interpreter who brought us to the hotel. The interpreter – happened to be a good guy he briefly introduced to us the country and helped us a lot later. The transfer to Sofitel Ambassador Hotel , were we stayed, took almost two hours. And when we came to the hotel and dropped our luggage in the rooms we immediately went downstairs for official weight check-in.

So as we were afraid both guys were overweight. Because of the long journey we did not checked the weight and that is why it was not controlled. However the promoters gave us one hour to make the weight. Within an hour each fighter managed to lose 1.8 kg. Everyone was little bit nervous and came little bit down after guys successfully passed the check-in.

After the lunch the promoters hold press conference. Due to there were fighters from different countries; every foreign fighter was provided with interpreter. During press conference most of the fighter were modest and humble. There was no sensational statements or predictions. Once there was a confusing situation when Korean journalist asked Ahmed Saadi when he found out that his Korean opponent Jaesik Choi has handicapped hand and what he thinks about fighting his opponent. Ahmed Saadi did not hear the answer clearly and thought that he was asked about his filling to fight in K-1 KHAN, so he answered that he feels very good about it and that he is looking to win by KO.

None of us was before in Korea and walking on the streets of this country was really amusing. After wandering around 20 billion city of Seoul we returned to the hotel. The fights will begin tomorrow at 19:00 at Gymnasium. We will report the result immediately after the fights.

Stanislav Bukhlov from Seoul

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