He was back in Peru helping Valentina get ready for her fight with Holly Holm at UFC on FOX 20 on July 23 in Chicago. Fedotov is a father figure to the Shevchenkos, training them for the last two decades and moving from Kyrgyzstan to Peru with them eight years ago.Īntonina, 31, didn't have Fedotov with her in Sweden for the Muay Thai world championships. But there was still a lot unknown, especially about if he'd recover in time to help with the training camps of the sisters he has coached since they were children. When she arrived there, Shevchenko found that Fedotov was not seriously injured.
I only knew that it was something in the restaurant, it was an exchange in shots and Pavel got shot.
I went right to the hospital to make sure that Pavel was OK, because I didn't know all the news. 'I went right to the hospital with all my things, all my bags. 'When I it, I couldn't believe it, that it just happened,' Shevchenko said. One of her training partners met her at the airport and told her something frightening: her coach Pavel Fedotov was shot at a restaurant by burglars while he was having dinner with her sister Valentina. When she arrived in Lima, though, her emotions quickly changed. She had just won her eighth Muay Thai world title and was heading home to Peru with a gold medal. Antonina Shevchenko was on a plane from Madrid by way of Stockholm feeling pretty good back in May.
