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11 Questions for Aleksandra Albu
- Updated: June 1, 2016
Russian strawweight Aleksandra Albu is a true UFC discovery. Despite having only one professional fight to her name, Albu was placed on the card for last year’s UFC Fight Night in Krakow, Poland. Albu submitted the more experienced Izabela Badurek with a second-round guillotine choke — and then suddenly disappeared. In a recent interview with Sherdog.com, Albu explained the reasons behind her absence and discussed her future fighting plans.Sherdog.com: After your successful UFC performance in April 2015, you vanished from the sport. Why?Aleksandra Albu: There were several reasons. Firstly, I was suffering from a lot of injuries, so immediately after the fight I underwent surgery, which required a fairly long recovery period. Secondly, this year is my last year at the university, and I have to defend my graduation thesis, which also requires a lot of time.Sherdog.com: Will the audience see you in the UFC again? What are your fighting plans for this year? Albu: Yes, of course! I would like to thank all my fans who are interested in my competitive career, who support and care for me. It is very pleasant and very motivating. I didn’t stop training in our club, MMA-KEGI, with the exception of the recovery period after surgery. I keep myself in shape and soon will be back to the UFC to continue my career there. It’s simply a necessary pause connected with the recovery and a graduate work. I am aware that it isn’t very good to make such long breaks between fights, but it was necessary.Sherdog.com: How did you manage to sign a contact with the UFC, having only one professional fight? Why do you think you were taken to the UFC? Albu: I think this question should be addressed to my manager in the United States, Sam Cardin. My coach, Andrei Tsarkov, negotiated with Sam, with the result of my signing with the UFC. As for the record, I had had five fights when I signed the contract. The difficulty was in the fact that four of them were in Thailand, and it was not easy to find the data from those tournaments and enter them into the official record. Nevertheless, despite this, the UFC decided to give me a chance. I believe that I didn’t let the organization down, having done well in my debut and finishing the fight early. I have a standard UFC contract; I am supposed to do four fights.Sherdog.com: What was the most difficult thing for you in the fight against Badurek? Albu: There were two …
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