Young Fedor Emelianenko forced a female fighter to go to the bathhouse with all the men during training. And if she refused, he would yell at her throughout the entire canteen. He could knock her down in sparring with a punch to the liver, and if she ran away, he would catch up and beat her so badly that the trainer would reprimand him
(from the story of world kickboxing champion, former MMA fighter Yulia Berezikova “Ushataika”):
Fedor loved to joke and did not like it when people joked about him. For this he scored harshly in sparring, punished
"When we ran, it was not customary for us to overtake Fedya, although he ran so slowly, but everyone was embarrassed to overtake him. Fedya in the hall immediately said: “Okay, stand next to me” (in the photo Berezikova next to Fedor - ed.). We do push-ups, pump up the press, he is like: “How many did you do?” And I did as much as necessary, and I also tried to get ahead of everyone. Well, you need to do 50-60 times on your fists, press as well, and I did. I say: “I did 50.” And Fedya: “And you need 100!” (laughs). And I did twice as much, because he spoke sternly.
Fedya has a great sense of humor, he is a joker, you can joke with him, tease everyone. And if someone jokes about him … When Fedya ran, he felt with his peripheral vision and back what everyone was saying, jokes. And then during training he would just pair up and punish them severely. The person would already give up, and [Fedor would score]. I tried to argue with him once when he would tell me something, for example, to do side steps in his own way, and I would argue, and he really didn’t like it. I would reprimand him for being so harsh, for example, breaking a guy’s ribs. He would be like, “One more word, and you’ll go home!” (laughs).
But at the same time, when Fedor went to Kislovodsk for fruit, he would bring peaches and watermelons, and he would tell me, “Yulchik, let’s go, peaches, watermelons. I bought some for myself and some for you.” Fedya is actually kind. We go to the market for the same fruits, he will definitely give money to the grannies there, help, he used to borrow money"
How Fedor made Berezikova go to the sauna with men, and when she refused, he yelled at her loudly in front of everyone in the cafeteria
"It happened that on the first day of the sauna, I come to the cafeteria, I didn’t go to the sauna, of course, why would I go there with men? They will be embarrassed, I’m okay, but they will have to sit in their underwear. And I come to the cafeteria, I didn’t go to the sauna, and there were Greco-Roman wrestlers in the cafeteria, and Fedor [in front of everyone] starts scolding me, very rudely: “Well, quickly explain why you weren’t in the sauna! The sauna is the same training!” And I even find it funny that they yell at me like that, and Fedya, he’s not my coach. We were sitting at the same table, he, his trainer, his massage therapist - and he was telling me: “Well, how fast are you eating garlic!” And for a girl, garlic (laughs)…
And he was screaming so loudly in the canteen that the wrestlers even started to look askance, asking why the man was screaming so loudly. Also, Fedya might not like it that I’m telling you this now, you can get it for it (laughs). And the next week I had to go to the sauna. I wrapped myself in towels, almost kicked the door open, frowned, sat down, and the guys were like: “Well, Yulka, because of you we have to sit in our underwear” (laughs). Fedya could write to me: “Well, are you getting ready for the training camp?” - “Yes” - “I’ll beat the crap out of you” (laughs) or “I’ll destroy you” (laughs). Those were the kind of jokes we had. Fedya used to tell me in the gym: “You’re the weakest one here” (laughs)"
Once Berezikova threw a series of blocking punches at Fedor and ran away out of fear. He caught up and scored so hard that the coach reprimanded her
"Fedya worked me pretty hard, and I fell on my liver from him. When you work with him, he’ll block you like that, if a person opens up or gets cheeky, he’ll punish you really hard. And I somehow… he blocks you… and sometimes he’d make me so angry, get on my nerves, that I’d just start throwing series of work, but then I realized that Fedya was tired of it, and I just had to turn around and run.
That’s what I did - I turned around and ran, thinking: “Well, Fedya will appreciate the joke.” And he just catches up to me and thump-thump-thump, I fly off (laughs). And before I could get up, he [scored] me for the second time. The coach makes a remark to him, and Fedya says: “Why is she attacking me like that?”
