Biography
Nikita Andreevich Krylov is the Ukrainian UFC fighter, the first citizen of his country, with whom the organization signed a contract. The athlete began a combat career with Karate, then continued her mixed martial arts.Childhood and youth
Nikita Krylov was born on March 7, 1992 in Ukraine, in the Shakhtar village Zaporizhia near the city of Red Ray. Andrei Krylov and himself was fascinated by sports: playing football, engaged in boxing and freestyle wrestling. When the boy turned 11 years old, his father led him to the Kökusinkai-Karate section. According to the memories of Nikita, the first few years he often lost - almost all the guys were older than him.
At the age of 13, the future athlete began working at the mine - first only in the summer, on the surface and illegally, as it is impossible to attract children to work. A total of Nikita by shoulders - 2 years of mining work. Thanks to them, he received the experience of physical work, I realized how money was given, and realized that I did not want to give all my life.
In addition to the mine, the young man worked on the market, having received the title of Master of Sport, taught physical culture.
After graduating from 11 classes, Nikita went to Lugansk and entered the law faculty of his ins. Oleg Dalya. However, after the 1st year of the course, the athlete realized that jurisprudence was not his work, and returned home to earn money on his own.
In Sport, the fighter hit the Father's friend - he had dating in the relevant circles in Moscow. When the young man was offered to return to martial arts, he agreed and thus got into MMA.
Martial arts
Up to 17 years in the biography of Nikita were only karate, and the first titles of the wings earned in it. In 2008, he won the Junior Championship among juniors, took the Cup in adult competitions in Kyukusinkai karate. The overlook was the world championship in Tokyo, after which the wings could get the 1st Dan, but the young man did not go there.
The reason was the financial question: expenses paid the father of Nikita, but the coach promised that after the victory in Europe, the athlete will receive a scholarship. However, Nikita did not see the money, and from the help of his father, the young man refused - after the financial crisis, he found such expenses unreasonable.
Training in MMA Krylov began in Makeevka under the leadership of Valery Andreeva. At first it was not easy to train - after karate, mixed martial arts were given with difficulty, Nikita owned only kicks. However, neither the coach nor the athlete himself surrendered, and it quickly brought results.
The first fight in mixed martial arts athlete spent in Donetsk, won by technical knockout. After that, the frequency of the Nikita fights was high - by the end of the year he spent 13 heavyweight fighting, and 12 of them were crowned with the victory of Krylov.
The first defeat happened during the fight with Vladimir Mishchenko, when Nikita had to surrender after the enemy applied the "triangle with his hands." In 2013, the wings tried to take revenge, but the battle ended again in favor of Vladimir. In general, the year was successful - Nikita won the Gladiators FC in severe weight.
Statistics of 14 victories for 2 defeats attracted M-1 Global attention to the athlete. Initially, in the quarterfinel of the Grand Prix in the heavyweight weight, Nikita had to fight with Magomed Malikov, since the alleged opponent, Jeff Monson, was injured. But due to the fact that Malikov was also injured, the German fighter Gabriel Tamp came against Krylov. The fight turned out to be difficult for Nikita - the German took advantage of the suffocating reception, but the wings stood and at the end of the 1st Round became the winner.
The victory led to the fact that Nikita became interested in UFC, and the athlete turned out to be the first Ukrainian fighter that signed a contract with her. The first fight in August 2013 ended with technical knockout of Soa Palaley, a fighter from Australia.
The second battle also became difficult, despite the permanent training. Shortly before the fight, the wings fell ill and told the manager that in such a state could not win. He still persuaded the fighter to fly to Chicago, and on weighing it turned out that Nikita weighs 98 kg - almost lower rate for heavyweight. The opponent Walt Harris was much harder and later himself admitted the wings, which was extremely surprised when the weight of the opponent was announced before the fight. Nevertheless, fate was favorable to Nikita - successfully started, he was able to win for only 25 seconds.
After that, the athlete decided to change the category and, dropping a kilogram, switched to the weighty weight. In the spring of 2014, in this capacity, he lost to the American Osshin Saint-Prel, but later won another fighter from the United States, Cody Donovan, and Bulgarian Stanislav Nekakov. The battle with the Brazilian athlete Marcus Rodirei de Lima was postponed twice, but still took place in August 2015. Two times for Nikita's duel fell under the "guillotine", but in the end I went out the winner, using strokes behind.
In 2016, the wings won 2 fights - with Francisar Barroso and Ed Herman, after which the Latvian athlete himself was defeated by Mikhail Zirkunov. In addition, 2016 marked for fans of mixed battles with a failed match between Nikita Krylov and Abdulkerim Edilov. For MMA Grand Prix Akhmat, children's fights took place in Grozny, which was much outraged by the Russian president of the Union of Mma Fyodor Emelianenko.
Edilov In response to comments, Emelyanenko expressed the assumption that the fighter simply jealizes, and its outrage is a consequence of alcohol abuse. Nikita found such comments inappropriate and caused Abdulkerim to battle. The fight was approved, but did not take place: at the time of the conflict Edilov was disqualified, and by the time of its restoration of the wings no longer consisted in UFC - the athlete refused to sign a new contract due to financial differences.
After UFC Nikita moved to the Russian Fight Nights Global for 2 years. Having won a number of victories, the wings decided to fight for the title of champion of the organization in a light heavyweight. For this, the fighter had to go to the ring against the Brazilian athlete Fabio Maldonado. In the 2nd round, Nikita managed to knock out the current champion and conquer the honorary title itself.
Personal life
Nikita is fine with his personal life: he is happily married, and in 2016 he became a father. The son of the athlete called the good one, as planned from school. In "Instagram", the wings leave predominantly snapshots of training and fighting, but the photo with the family there is also found.
With his wife Catherine, the fighter met in school years. Relationships were not always smooth, the girl even flew abroad and almost received Canadian citizenship, but in the end he returned to Nikita. By the formation of Catherine, the translator was keen on a fitness bikini. The wings honestly admits that he is not interested in his wife worked, and wants her time to belong to the family - especially since Nikita is not against the start of children.
The fighter is baptized in the Orthodox faith and believes in God. This is evidenced by Tattoo on the chest - Christogram, Cross Constantine.
And the nickname of Al Kapone, under which Nikita recognized the world of mixed martial arts, it turns out, not his idea. The athlete itself was uninteresting this image, his first manager was invented. Therefore, changing the representative, the wings first got rid of the nickname.
Nikita Krylov Now
In the autumn of 2018, the athlete returned to UFC and fought with Jan Blahovich, an athlete from Poland. The battle did not bring Nikita Victory - Yang spent the "manual triangle" and the wings were forced to surrender.
Now Nikita lives in Moscow, and with the entrance to his homeland he has problems. The wings openly support unrecognized DPR and LNR, spoke in Donetsk. Because of this, the fighter is included in the list of the "Peacemaker" site with the wording "participation in the propaganda activities of the terrorist organization of the DPR".
The fighter continues to perform in the weight heavyweight category - its growth is 191 cm, and the weight is 93 kg.
On September 11, 2018, in an interview with Sport-Express Site, Krylov reported that she filed documents for Russian citizenship.
Titles and awards
- 2008 - World Junior Champion on Kyucusinkai Karate
- 2018 - FNG champion in sexual weight