Spices in front of Brichta in Ostrava. I don’t like Prague, especially the people around the sport, Rajnoch admitted
Will Leo Brichta claim a win in Ostrava as well?PHOTO: RFA
Ostrava vs. Prague. It might look like that. Such a touch will be the attitude battle on Saturday at the RFA, where home team Vítězslav Rajnoch and visiting guest Leo Brichta will face each other. The first will probably start with the flag. But it will not be Czech, it will hold the Silesian flag in its hands. How did this tradition come about?
“We went somewhere abroad. And as it happens in Czech MMA, the people of Prague can’t see further than Hradec, I don’t like Prague, especially the people around the sport that revolves around it. We went to represent our region and we started with the Silesian flag. Since then, I’ve practically always had it,” explained Rajnoch in an interview with RFA.
The home fighter is nicknamed the Silesian Eagle. The reason suggests itself. “I am associated with Silesia, I even have it tattooed. I think the home audience will be on my side, I am personally very curious about it,” says the self-confident local shooter. Maybe it’s also because of his nature. “It’s the people who live here, it’s tougher here even outside of sports,” he said of his region of Rajnoch, which has memories of Prague, but is not happy twice.
“When I started to train and wrestle, we went to Prague. There we were given a harder draw, the home team was helped. When it was close, the home team was given. Such brother on brother. When someone acts as a referee and at the same time is the manager of a wrestler, it’s hard to fight against that. That’s where it started,” explained Rajnoch.
Even though some people from the capital may not have had a bad conversation about Saturday’s game. The fight Prague vs. Ostrava?
“People should watch it mainly because it will be an attractive match. I plan to win. In purely sporting terms, I was with Lee once when we filmed something, he treated me with respect. I have nothing against him personally. Somehow find but we’re all different, everyone has some bugs,” he threw in a fighter who doesn’t expect a halo to arise during the staredown before the match.
“We will stick our foreheads together as much as possible. There is nothing bad between us, it will be purely about sport,” believes the striker, who wants a home win. Just like Brichta.
“I’m not really lazy. I can’t sleep when I know that I still have to beat up a lot of people,” Brichta stated vaguely in an interview with RFA. He now invests all his energy only in the battle with Rajnoch itself.
How does the legend of Czech attitude Ondřej Spejbl Hutník see this duel?
“Rajnoch is a home fighter, they will be extremely overmotivated, they hate Prague, they will want to show it. The problem is that Leo Brichta is a very good fighter. When I was already a star at the Hanuman gym, he was already there as a young boy. He has very good history behind him. Here I see it 80 to 20 for Brichta.”
What will the reality be?