Nationalist and MMA fighter Viacheslav Datsik will hold the first bout after being released from prison on April 15. "Datsik will hold a battle with Artem Tarasov on April 15," the TASS inrormed.
Tarasov is more than 70 kg lighter than Datsik. The interviewee said that both fighters will receive purses, but it will be closed event. Datsik has five victories and seven defeats in MMA. Tarasov has five victories and not a single defeat.
Datsik, convicted in the case of an attack on a brothel, was released in St. Petersburg in late February. In March 2018, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in a security prison for attacking an underground brothel in May 2016. Since May 2016, he was under arrest.
The first time Datsik, known for participating in fights without rules under the pseudonym Red Tarzan, was detained in 2007 while investigating a series of robberies at mobile phone shops. The court, recognizing him insane, appointed treatment in a psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg, from where he fled to Norway, where he gave up arms to the authorities of the kingdom and asked for political asylum. In December of the same year, the Oslo District Court sentenced thr Russian to eight months in prison for illegal possession of weapons, in March 2011, Datsik was extradited to Russia.
After being transferred to the Russian-Finnish border, Datsik was arrested as part of an investigation of the robbery at the cellular phone salon, which he committed after escaping from the hospital. In December 2012, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced him to five years in prison in a general regime colony, he was released in spring 2016.
