Anatoly Malykhin Talks Kirill Grishenko Interim Title Fight at One: Bad Blood

Anatoly Malykhin tests skills with Kirill Grishenko on February 11th at ONE: Bad Blood. This interim ONE heavyweight championship bout transpires at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

I spoke with Malykhin ahead of this fight. We touched on several subjects such as: -The importance of the great training staff over at Tiger Muay Thai

-The back-to-back first-round finishes with strikes and Malykhin's work with Johnny Hutchinson building to that

-ONE Championship recently instantiating 50k post-fight performance bonuses and Malykhin's thoughts on that

-Testing positive for COVID 19, as reported by South China Morning Post, and how Anatoly Malykhin has been feeling with the situation

-A recent birthday transpiring and what Anatoly Malykhin was able to get up to for it

-When the offer of an interim title fight got put out to him 

-Wanting to fight champion Arjan Bhullar but the reigning champ's contract dispute prompting a Malykhin return since September

-The ONE Championship heavyweight division being the deepest that it has ever been

-Thoughts on the main stylistic aspects of Kirill Grishenko

-What level of tape study is being done on Grishenko from Malykhin versus that being allocated to the Tiger Muay Thai coaches

-Malykhin's confidence and where that assuredness in his abilities comes from there

-What kind of hobbies Malykhin has, how he relaxes and decompresses