Combat of mixed martial arts gradually gainpopularity around the world. The participation of women in these tough bouts is rather unusual and not everyone likes. In Russia, the instigator of this movement was Natalia Bobkina, in whose assets there is a victory over the wife of the famous Bob Shrider, but she soon left in sumo.
A real way into the ring for Russianwomen broke through Julia Berezikova. The biography of the athlete showed that a competent PR campaign, bright fights can make the most conservative connoisseurs of martial arts pay attention to the beautiful ladies in fights and take them seriously.
Fighting girl
Born "Russian birch" in KrasnokamenskChita region in 1983. Already from kindergarten she was distinguished by her fighting character and did not give herself to anyone in an insult. And Julia only fought with the boys, never bullying the first.
Ее отношения со спортом начались с более traditional disciplines. Signing up for swimming in the first class, Julia Berezikova has been successfully engaged for more than four years, having achieved some success. However, after an unsuccessful jump into the water, she suffered a serious neck injury and went to the hospital for a long time.
But the restless girl, barely recovering from the injury, immediately enrolled in the judo section.
New MMA name
Julia Berezikova has been looking for her place in the world for a long time.martial arts. In 1999, she moved to St. Petersburg and switched to boxing. This helped her to improve her drum technique by an order of magnitude. Then in Russia, fights of mixed style were not particularly popular, and the athlete seriously thought about tying her career with boxing. The idol of the sportswoman was the best at that time boxer of the planet Roy Jones, whose technique and speed admired Julia.
Since 2002, she took part in fightsmixed style. A few years later, the first serious fight in her career took place, which became her debut in MMA. Having won two qualifying matches in Russia, she became a member of the national team for the match against the US team in 2006. The contender caught the most serious - Tara Larossa, the former winner of the world judo championships. Everyone was expecting a quick victory for an American who already had 11 victories in 12 fights. But the Russian woman lasted 10 minutes and lost in the second round, when Tara caught her at the painful admission, breaking her elbow. So began her career in MMA Yulia Berezikova.
Fights with new rivals were not long in coming. Within a month, he had a duel with Song Lee Jing within the framework of the match between Russia and Korea.
After that, Berezikova suffered the mosta crushing defeat in her career by Julia Kedzie. Already in the second round, the Russian athlete was knocked out. After 2009, she temporarily left the mixed martial arts in jiu-jitsu. According to Julia, she took a break to pay attention to a more tactical form of martial arts. Two years later, she began working with the RusFighters club, after which her business improved again. To date, she has held 11 fights, in 7 of which she won.
Achievements in related martial arts
Julia Berezikova began her career in judo andachieved some success, becoming the winner of the Asian Championships in 1998. Until 2005, she concentrated on boxing matches and successfully performed at the Russian championships, taking medals of various denominations.
Today, being a universal fighter, she also participates in wushu competitions, combat sambo.
Life outside sports, social and political activities
Julia Berezikova is also notable for her activecivil position and social activities. Together with Alexander Zaldostanov, better known as the “Surgeon”, Mikhail Porechenkov and Dmitry Sablin, she was one of the organizers of the “Anti-Maidan” movement in 2015.
Berezikova became one of the first women in Russia who gained fame abroad in mixed style battles. It was followed by the athletes of the new generation.
